South West Public Health Observatory
The impact of drug misuse on health in the South West, 1996-2001
 

Glossary

AWP           Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust

CDSC          Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre

CI                Confidence Interval

DAT             Drug Action Team

DH               Department of Health

DPAS          Drug Prevention Advisory Service

DTTO           Drug Treatment and Testing Order

EMCDDA     European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction

GP              General Practitioner

GOSW         Government Office South West

HA               Health Authority

HES            Hospital Episode Statistics

HMP            Her Majesty’s Prison

ICD-10         International Classification of Diseases (Tenth Revision)

IDU              Injecting Drug User

NDTMS        National Drug Treatment Monitoring System

NHS            National Health Service

np-SAD        National Programme on Substance Abuse Deaths

NTA             National Treatment Agency

NTORS        National Treatment Outcome Research Study

ONS            Office of National Statistics

PHLS           Public Health Laboratory Service

RDMD          Regional Drug Misuse Database

SCODA        Standing Conference on Drug Abuse

SD               Standard Deviation

SPSS          Statistical Package for the Social Sciences

STI              Sexually Transmitted Infection

SWPHO       South West Public Health Observatory

UWE         University of the West of England