Transcript SDF Seminar

SDF Seminar
Dr. Richard Simpson MSP
Shadow Public Health Minister
Psychiatrist [Addictions]
The Road to Recovery
History of last ten years
deaths heroin methadone cocaine
1997 224
84
2000 292
2003 317
2006 421 260
2007 455
Methadone Rx now
100
3
97
33
22,000 (>£25m)
Audit Scotland
Drug and Alcohol Services in
Scotland today
Total Expenditure £173 million
Average spend per head of
population £30
Total on drugs £23.7 million
18% on residential
FM agrees to summit
‘to look at outcomes’
DATs to become ADPs?