QUARTERLY

DRUGS

REPORT

Fourth quarter 2013/14

ADP DRUGS STRATEGY OUTCOMES FOR EDUCATING & PREVENTING
NATIONAL ADP Core Outcomes /
  • PREVALENCE: Fewer adults and children are drinking or using drugs at levels or patterns that are damaging to themselves or others
  • LOCAL ENVIRONMENT: People live in positive, health promoting local environments where alcohol and drugs are less readily available

LOCAL
High Level Outcome / 1. Reduce prevalence of drug use / 2. Reduce demand for specialist drug services / 3. Reduce time from onset of drug use to seeking support
Intermediate Outcome / 1. All people in Aberdeen are better informed about the risks, consequences and impact of drug use / 2. People are able to make informed choices about drug use / 3. Increase resilience (protective factors) in target populations / 4. Increase earlier intervention opportunities for those at risk in particular the hard to reach, taking into account family and/or carer specific support needs / 5. Reduce the number of drug overdose and fatalities / 6. Reduce stigma attached to drug users and barriers associated with seeking and delivering help
Delivery Outcome / 1. Increase availability of accurate communication, information and educational resources / 2. Support positive choices and positive relationships by increasing awareness and access to healthy lifestyle and protective factors / 3. Increase earlier access to appropriate services and interventions for children and young people at risk of developing a drug problem / 4. Decrease in numbers of children and young people requiring specialist drug services / 5. Increase the number of trained individuals as first-line response to drug overdose situations / 6. Community engagement and community development activity will be prioritised through needs-led evidence
ADP Drugs Strategy Outcomes for educating & preventing
1. Reduce prevalence of drug use / 2. Reduce demand for specialist drug services / 3. Reduce time from onset of drug use to seeking support
ADP Delivery Plan 2012-15 KEY CHANGES
  • Curriculum for Excellence (Health & Wellbeing) substance misuse guidance being implemented and delivered across primary and secondary education
  • Increase in parental and family awareness of, and access to effective parenting education and intervention programmes
  • Reduced demand for services and in the average time from the onset of someone’s problematic drugs use to them coming into treatment

Quarterly Report Summary:
  • Direct Access Service: In Q4 there were123new contacts / individuals seeking advice and information primarily in relation to opiates. There were1357contacts with injecting equipment provision and 39,195needles distributed. 38individuals undertook structured preparatory work.
Naloxone provision in Aberdeen City 2013/14
Q1 / Q2 / Q3 / Q4
4 / 10 / 21 / 361
As a result of the 361 naloxone supplies made in Q4, the total supplies made to date reached 485 which exceed the target set by the Scottish Govt of 480 supplies (15% of estimated problem drug users) by March 2014. A meeting of the GrampianNaloxone Steering Group took place in Q4 in order to discuss plans for 2014-15. Areas which will be taken forward include, a) ensuring that training/supply of naloxone becomes embedded within services, b) consideration of ways of capturingthose who are not in contact with services (to include those at risk, their friends and family members).
Scottish Ambulance Service – naloxone administration / 2011/12 / 2012/13 / 2013/14
Q3 / Q4 / Q1 / Q2 / Q3 / Q4 / Q1 / Q2 / Q3 / Q4
Number of incidents in AberdeenCity / 13 / 25 / 15 / 11 / 11 / 13 / 17 / 24 / 20 / 18
  • An event was held in Aberdeen on 27.03.14 at Transition Extreme on New Psychoactive Substances (NPS), which attracted 278 secondary school children. On a scale of 1(not at all) to 10 (increased greatly) the average score given by the pupils for event was ‘7.6’ when they were asked to rate whether or not their knowledge on NPS had increased.
  • Alcohol & drugs training was carried out on 11.03.14 at KingswellsPrimary School (with 21 parents) and on 25.03.14 at RobertGordonCollege (with 18 parents).

ADP DRUGS STRATEGY OUTCOMES FOR SUPPORTING POSITIVE CHANGE
NATIONAL ADP Core Outcomes /
  • HEALTH: People are healthier and experience fewer risks as a result of alcohol and drug use
  • RECOVERY: Individuals are improving their health, well-being and life chances by recovering from problematic drug and alcohol use
  • SERVICES: Alcohol and drugs prevention, treatment and support services are high quality, continually improving, efficient, evidence-based and responsive, ensuring people move through treatment into sustained recovery

LOCAL
High Level Outcome / 1. More drug users assisted to stabilise chaotic drug use / 2. More drug users assisted to move on from drug use and develop skills to avoid relapse / 3. More drug users assisted to move out of treatment and rehabilitation to sustained community based recovery
Intermediate Outcome / 1. Reduce chaotic or risky behaviour
2. Reduce illicit drug use
3. Reduce risk of spread of blood borne viruses
4. Reduce number of unintended pregnancies
5. Increase number of people immunised and / or engaged in BBV treatment / 6. Improve physical health
7. Improve mental health and wellbeing
8. Reduce involvement in criminal activity
9. Improve stability in housing and accommodation / 10. Improve personal, social and family functioning
11. Reduce risk to children and improved parenting skills
12. Increase number of people in education and employment
13. Reduce reliance on benefits
Delivery Outcome / 1. Reduce levels of injection equipment sharing and BBV transmission among injecting drug users / 2. Increase numbers of people accessing other support, treatment and rehabilitation services further on in the recovery pathway / 3. Reduce health, social, crime and other problems attributable to drug misuse and risky behaviours / 4. Increase controlled, non-dependent or non problematic drug use / 5. Increase abstinence from main problematic drugs / 6. Increase abstinence from all drugs
ADP Drugs Strategy Outcomes for supporting positive change
1. More drug users assisted to stabilise chaotic drug use / 2. More drug users assisted to move on from drug use and develop skills to avoid relapse / 3. More drug users assisted to move out of treatment and rehabilitation to sustained community based recovery
ADP Delivery Plan 2012-15 KEY CHANGES
  • Improvement in the number of people moving out of treatment and into long term sustained recovery
  • Recovery communities are visible and working together to create a strong positive active identity within AberdeenCity

Quarterly Report Summary:
  • HEAT TARGETS: In Q4 there were169referrals to drug treatment services with 97.2% of those referrals starting treatment within 21 days.
Structured treatment patient numbers / 2012/13 / 2013/14
Q1 / Q2 / Q3 / Q4 / Q1 / Q2 / Q3 / Q4
1859 / 1817 / 1748 / 1873 / 1838 / 1805 / 1815
Recovery:
  • ARC:At the end of Quarter 4, 285 people are involved in the ARC service. 6people achieved an employability / education outcome.
  • Recovery
  • AiR (Aberdeen in Recovery) – AiR continue to deliver weekly sessions at the VSS premises, Castlegate, Aberdeen. These run from 1pm -4pm every Friday afternoon and aim to make recovery more visible to: people with a substance misuse problems; service users; family members; professionals.

ADP DRUGS STRATEGY OUTCOMES FOR MAKING COMMUNITIES SAFER AND STRONGER
NATIONAL ADP Core Outcomes /
  • FAMILIES: Children and family members of people misusing alcohol and drugs are safe, well-supported and have improved life-chances
  • COMMUNITY SAFETY: Communities and individuals are safe from alcohol and drug related offending and anti-social behaviour

LOCAL
High Level Outcome / 1. More young people and families at risk are supported to stay together / 2. More children and young people at risk as a result of parental drug use are safer / 3. Reduce drug related criminal activity
Intermediate Outcome / 1. Extended family members are supported to care for children and young people who may be at risk because of parental drug use / 2. Children are better protected from the negative impact of parental drug use / 3. Increase the effectiveness of the identification of risk to children where parental drug misuse is a factor / 4. Increase the effectiveness of the management of risk to children where parental drug use is a factor / 5. Target and dismantle organised crime groups operating in Aberdeen / 6. Reduce drug related acquisitive crime, violence and anti-social behaviour / 7. Reduce the number of drug users involved in the Criminal Justice System / 8. Increase the number of local communities where residents report that they feel safer from drug related crime
Delivery Outcome /
  1. Increase in the number of children at risk going to stay with Kinship Carers
  2. Improve the assessment approval and support for Kinship carers
  3. Increase in the public reporting of child protection concerns
  4. All children affected by parental drug use have a support plan in place that meets their needs
  5. Increase the number of vulnerable pregnant women receiving support who are drug users or have drug using partners
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  1. Increase the percentage of staff working with adults who report that they are aware of and understand their responsibility to identify and support children at risk, including neglect
  2. All children at risk affected by parental substance misuse have a protection plan or support plan in place. All plans are monitored regularly and involve the families and all those working with the family in reviewing progress
  3. All protection plans and support plans are outcome focused
  4. Develop and deliver effective multi-agency campaigns and operations to reduce the impact of drug related activity in communities. Evaluate the impact and success of these campaigns and operations and share learning across services and communities
  5. Make it easier for street workers to report concerns about drug related crime specifically in crimes of violence
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  1. Encourage and give street workers the means to ensure their personal safety
  2. Increase the use of diversion approaches as an alternative to prosecution for drug users and street workers
  3. Improve information-sharing across agencies to enable drug users who have contact with the Criminal Justice System to access treatment and support quickly
  4. Encourage and give residents the means to target harden their homes and ensure their personal safety.
  5. Make it easier for residents in communities to report concerns about drug related crime and anti-social behaviour

ADP Drugs Strategy Outcomes for making communities safer and stronger
1. More young people and families at risk are supported to stay together / 2. More children and young people at risk as a result of parental drug use are safer / 3. Reduce drug related criminal activity
ADP Delivery Plan 2012-15 KEY CHANGES - See section (Safer) within alcohol
Quarterly Report Summary:
AberdeenCity child protection register figures / 2011/12 / 2012/13 / 2013/14
Q1 / Q2 / Q3 / Q4 / Q1 / Q2 / Q3 / Q4 / Q1 / Q2 / Q3 / Q4
Total number of children on child protection register / 91 / 97 / 88 / 56 / 83 / 87 / 66 / 83 / 93 / 91 / 121 / 108
Number affected by parental drug use / 34 / 33 / 40 / 18 / 23 / 22 / 18 / 27 / 30 / 29 / 36 / 22
Numbers who started Criminal Justice programmes / 2012/13 / 2013/14
Q1 / Q2 / Q3 / Q4 / Q1 / Q2 / Q3 / Q4
1. COVAID (Control of Violent and Impulsive Drinking) / 5 / 3 / 1 / 0 / 0 / 3 / 0 / 0
2. Caledonian (domestic abuse) / - / - / - / - / - / - / - / -
3. Community Payback Order – drug related orders / 2 / 2 / 2 / 0 / 2 / 0 / 0 / 0
4. Drug Treatment and Testing Orders / 2 / 2 / 0 / 3 / 2 / 3 / 2 / 2
5. Community Payback Order – alcohol related orders / 4 / 2 / 0 / 1 / 0 / 3 / 0 / 1
6. Community Payback Order – alcohol & drug order / 1 / 0 / 0 / 1 / 0 / 0 / 0 / 0
Arrest Referral Figures / 2013/14
Q1 / Q2 / Q3 / Q4
Alcohol / 32 (28 male / 4 female) / 24 (17 male / 7 female) / 8 (all male) / 18 (15 males / 3 female)
Drugs / 3 (2 male / 1 female) / 4 (3 male / 1 female) / 9 (7 male / 2 female) / 7 (all male)
Alcohol and Drugs / 25 (all male) / 19 (17 male / 2 female) / 3 (all male) / 15 (13 male / 2 female)
Total / 60 / 47 / 20 / 40

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