Links to other parts of Scottish Executive

• Social Research Branches:

  - Criminal Justice
  Lead on drug-related crime, interventions for drug users in the criminal justice system (including arrest referral schemes and community disposals for drug using offenders).

  - Education
  Lead on evaluation of drug education within schools and on research on children and young people.

  - Transport
  Lead on exploring issues relevant to attitudes on drug driving and road safety.

  - Some research of relevance to the drugs field is also co-ordinated in consultation with research colleagues from Housing, Community Care, Mental Health and Enterprise and Lifelong Learning branches.

• Chief Scientist's Office (CSO)
  The CSO commissions work and supports research initiated by the research community in Scotland through a research grant system. The CSO will continue to fund applied health services research relating to drug misuse, such as trials of the organisation and delivery of services to drug misusers.
  
  
• Scottish Prison Service (SPS)
  SPS commissions and supports drug related research in Scottish prisons which informs the development of policy and practice on prisoner care and welfare, both while in custody and on release back into the community.