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3. Respondents’ perceptions of the scale of drug use <strong>in</strong> the locales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
4. Respondents’ perceptions of the scale of drug use <strong>in</strong> the locales: overall rat<strong>in</strong>gs . . . . . . . . 15
5. Respondents’ perceptions of the differences <strong>in</strong> the drugs most commonly used by men,
women and young people . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
6. Perceptions of long-term trends <strong>in</strong> drug use <strong>in</strong> the locales (last 5 years) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
7. Perceptions of long-term trends <strong>in</strong> drug <strong>abuse</strong> (last 5 years): overall rat<strong>in</strong>gs . . . . . . . . . . . 18
8. Perceptions of short-term trends <strong>in</strong> drug use <strong>in</strong> the locales (last year) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
9. Perceptions of short-term trends <strong>in</strong> drug <strong>abuse</strong> (last year): overall rat<strong>in</strong>gs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
10. Perceptions of problems caused by different drugs <strong>in</strong> the locales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
11. Perceptions of problems caused, overall-rat<strong>in</strong>g scores: urban/rural and prov<strong>in</strong>cial
comparisons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
12. Difference <strong>in</strong> respondents’ perceptions of differences <strong>in</strong> the drugs caus<strong>in</strong>g the most
problems for men, women and young people <strong>in</strong> the locale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
13. Usual type of employment (percentage by sample groups) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
14. Means of f<strong>in</strong>ancial support <strong>in</strong> the 12 weeks before <strong>in</strong>terview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
15. Sample demographics and first treatment contact . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
16. History of drug use (all respondents) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
17. Route of adm<strong>in</strong>istration (selected drugs only — percentage of whole sample) . . . . . . . . . . 29
18. Summary of <strong>in</strong>ject<strong>in</strong>g practices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
19. Shar<strong>in</strong>g of needles and syr<strong>in</strong>ges <strong>in</strong> the last year . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
20. Data of four prisons (all <strong>in</strong>mates) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
21. Prison data record (<strong>in</strong>mates who have drug related charges) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
22. Comparison of drug treatment services available <strong>in</strong> 1994/1995 and 2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
23. Locales used <strong>in</strong> the key <strong>in</strong>formant study component . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
24. Locales <strong>in</strong> the treatment register study and <strong>in</strong> the four cities study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
25. Basic demographic profiles provided by the census data, us<strong>in</strong>g figures for each of the
locales <strong>in</strong> the study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
26. Reduced overall target population of males <strong>in</strong> the age band of 15 to 45 years . . . . . . . . . . 54
27. Cl<strong>in</strong>ic profiles derived from the treatment register update study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
28. Treatment multipliers derived from key <strong>in</strong>formant and addict <strong>in</strong>terview data . . . . . . . . . . . 56
29. Extrapolated estimates of the numbers of addicts <strong>in</strong> the country as a whole . . . . . . . . . . . 57
30. Comparisons of hero<strong>in</strong> <strong>abuse</strong>rs <strong>in</strong> the 1993 and 2000 studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
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A.II.1. Respondents’ perceptions to the scale of drug use <strong>in</strong> their locale: rural/urban
comparisons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
A.II.2. Respondents’ perceptions to the scale of drug use <strong>in</strong> their locale: prov<strong>in</strong>cial
comparisons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
A.II.3. Key <strong>in</strong>formation perceptions of long-term trends <strong>in</strong> drug use <strong>in</strong> their locale
(last 5 years): rural/urban comparisons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
A.II.4. Key <strong>in</strong>formant perceptions of long-term trends <strong>in</strong> drug use <strong>in</strong> their locale (last 5 years):
prov<strong>in</strong>cial comparisons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
A.II.5. Key <strong>in</strong>formant perceptions of short-term trends <strong>in</strong> drug use <strong>in</strong> their locale (last year):
rural/urban comparisons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
A.II.6. Key <strong>in</strong>formant perceptions of short-term trends <strong>in</strong> drug use <strong>in</strong> their locale (last year):
prov<strong>in</strong>cial comparisons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
A.II.7. Key <strong>in</strong>formant perceptions of problems caused by drug use: urban/rural comparisons . 77
A.II.8. Key <strong>in</strong>formant perceptions of problems caused by drug use: prov<strong>in</strong>cial comparisons . . 78
A.II.9. Key <strong>in</strong>formants: attitudes to drug <strong>abuse</strong> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
A.III.1. Basic data provided by the census for each of the locales <strong>in</strong> the study . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
A.III.2. Reduced overall target population to males <strong>in</strong> age band 15 to 45 years . . . . . . . . . . . 83
A.III.3. Data from the treatment register update study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
A.III.4. Treatment multipliers derived from key <strong>in</strong>formant and addict <strong>in</strong>terview data . . . . . . . . 84
A.III.5. Extrapolated estimates of the numbers of addicts <strong>in</strong> the country as a whole . . . . . . . . 85
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