UK Aim 3 : TREATMENT
To enable people with drug problems to overcome them and live healthy and crime-free lives.

UK Key Objective
Increase participation of problem drug misusers, including prisoners, in drug treatment programmes which have a positive impact on health and crime.

Scotland's Objectives

1. Reduce the health risks to individuals and communities from drug misuse, and reduce related infectious diseases.
2. Increase the number of drug misusers becoming and remaining drug free, and promote their inclusion in society.
3. Reduce the incidence of injecting, sharing and polydrug misuse among drug misusers.
4. Reduce the number of drug related deaths.
5. Increase the proportion of drug misusers in contact with services, including those in prison, through the development of good, accessible, responsive and effective services.
6. Reduce the numbers of drug misusers who have no quick access to appropriate treatment.

Currently Available Key Indicators :

• Number of new problem drug misusers seen by services and reported to the Scottish Drug Misuse Database.
• Number of new reported cases of HIV infection among injecting drug users. · Number of new reported cases of hepatitis B among injecting drug users
• Number of reported cases of hepatitis C among injecting drug users
• Percentage of drug misusers recorded by the Scottish Drug Misuse Database (SDMD) who had injected in the previous month.
• Percentage of drug misusers recorded by the SDMD who had injected in the previous month who reported sharing equipment in the previous month.
• Percentage of drug misusers recorded by the SDMD who reported that they had injected in the past, but not in the previous month.
• Number of deaths attributable to drug misuse.