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Drug Misuse Statistics Scotland 2006

 

Table A1.36: Sharing spoons/water/filters/solutions1,2: 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

42

22

36

2 911

888

by NHS board

Argyll & Clyde

41

32

27

223

82

Ayrshire & Arran

43

18

39

220

87

Borders

30

30

40

z

z

Dumfries & Galloway

46

34

20

87

36

Fife

30

21

49

437

55

Forth Valley

46

19

35

194

55

Grampian

59

19

22

350

108

Greater Glasgow

43

25

32

456

125

Highland

41

26

33

70

23

Lanarkshire

56

9

35

166

76

Lothian

39

23

39

501

141

Orkney

-

-

-

z

z

Shetland

67

22

11

z

z

Tayside

28

15

57

201

91

Western Isles

-

-

-

z

z

by council area

Aberdeen City

65

20

15

193

62

Aberdeenshire

53

17

30

121

41

Angus

17

28

56

54

24

Argyll & Bute

35

17

48

z

z

Ayrshire East

49

8

42

106

21

Ayrshire North

23

36

41

69

41

Ayrshire South

55

13

32

47

27

Borders

30

30

40

z

z

Clackmannanshire

41

22

38

z

z

Dumfries & Galloway

46

34

20

87

36

Dunbartonshire East

60

10

30

z

z

Dunbartonshire West

52

28

20

79

25

Dundee City

29

10

62

115

55

Edinburgh City

34

26

40

343

103

Eilean Siar

-

-

-

z

z

Falkirk

50

18

32

100

27

Fife

30

21

49

437

55

Glasgow City

42

26

32

397

102

Highland

41

26

33

70

23

Inverclyde

40

33

27

73

24

Lanarkshire North

51

10

39

97

39

Lanarkshire South

58

14

28

85

45

Lothian East

47

10

43

z

z

Lothian West

57

17

26

84

31

Midlothian

37

14

49

49

6

Moray

46

16

38

z

z

Orkney

-

-

-

z

z

Perth & Kinross

44

16

41

z

z

Renfrewshire

39

33

29

70

30

Renfrewshire East

43

29

29

z

z

Shetland

67

22

11

z

z

Stirling

45

17

38

60

17

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).