Drug Misuse Statistics Scotland 2006	< Previous | Contents | Next >
Table A1.33: Sharing needles/syringes1,2: year ending 31 March 2006 individuals reported to have injected in the past month; NHS board and council area of residence NEW INDIVIDUAL PATIENTS/CLIENTS   Shared in previous month Shared in past- but not in previous month Has never shared Information available (=100%) Information unavailable percentage numbers Scotland 27 23 50 2 814 985 by NHS board Argyll & Clyde 30 32 38 218 87 Ayrshire & Arran 33 19 48 243 64 Borders 32 37 32 z z Dumfries & Galloway 29 32 39 84 39 Fife 10 18 72 438 54 Forth Valley 32 19 49 185 64 Grampian 37 24 39 293 165 Greater Glasgow 32 28 40 442 139 Highland 26 32 42 65 28 Lanarkshire 39 12 49 146 96 Lothian 25 23 53 493 149 Okrney - - - z z Shetland 43 14 43 z z Tayside 22 16 62 203 89 Western Isles - - - z z by council area Aberdeen City 42 27 31 153 102 Aberdeenshire 35 21 44 105 57 Angus 13 22 65 55 23 Argyll & Bute 33 10 57 z z Ayrshire East 40 10 50 108 19 Ayrshire North 19 34 47 90 20 Ayrshire South 44 8 48 48 26 Borders 32 37 32 z z Clackmannanshire 24 30 45 z z Dumfries & Galloway 29 32 39 84 39 Dunbartonshire East 60 10 30 z z Dunbartonshire West 38 37 25 79 25 Dundee City 24 12 64 117 53 Edinburgh City 24 26 50 339 107 Eilean Siar - - - z z Falkirk 37 16 46 99 28 Fife 10 18 72 438 54 Glasgow City 30 29 40 384 115 Highland 26 32 42 65 28 Inverclyde 27 27 46 70 27 Lanarkshire North 35 11 54 85 51 Lanarkshire South 37 18 45 78 52 Lothian East 23 23 55 z z Lothian West 29 16 54 79 36 Midlothian 24 10 65 49 6 Moray 17 22 61 z z Okrney - - - z z Perth & Kinross 32 19 48 z z Renfrewshire 28 33 39 69 31 Renfrewshire East 33 33 33 z z Shetland 43 14 43 z z Stirling 29 18 54 56 21 1 All figures in this table exclude penal establishment inmates and information received from needle exchanges. 2 Individuals are included once within each NHS board area and council area. Therefore the sum of local area data may not equal the Scotland figure. - (zero); 0 (>0.0 & <0.5) z Not shown where the number of new clients with information available < 40. Caution is advised in interpreting differences in percentages across years due to small numbers. || Due to rounding percentages may not add up to 100%. See also supplementary information in Annex A1.1 Source: ISD Scotland (SMR24).