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The UK Focal Point on Drugs (the national focal point) is based in Public Health England. It works closely with the Home Office, other government departments and the devolved administrations (Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales) in providing information to the EMCDDA.
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The primary sources of information about the prevalence of illicit drugs among the adult population in the United Kingdom are representative household surveys such as the Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW; previously the British Crime Survey), which has run since 2001/02. Equivalent information for Scotland comes from the Scottish Crime and Justice Survey (SCJS), which last reported results for 2012/13. The Northern Ireland Drug Prevalence Survey (NIDPS), based on European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) methodology, was first conducted in 2002/03, with further surveys in 2006/07 and 2010/11.
The above surveys all indicate that cannabis is the most commonly used illicit drug in the United Kingdom, and has been in each year that relevant surveys have been conducted. Cocaine is the next most commonly used drug, followed by ecstasy (MDMA). Overall, drug use in the United Kingdom has declined over the last ten years; however, due to its relatively high prevalence, cannabis is a substantial driver of overall drug trends. Cocaine prevalence reported through surveys reached a peak in 2007/08, and although it has since declined an increase has been noted in the most recent surveys.
In England and Wales the 2014/15 CSEW, conducted among people aged 16–59, showed that 34.7 % of respondents had tried any illicit drug at least once in their lives. Prevalence of last year use of any illicit drug had remained stable at around 12 % between 1998 and 2003/04, and subsequently decreased steadily to 8.5 % in 2009/10. Since then it has fluctuated between 8 % and 9 %. In 2012/13 drug use prevalence was at its lowest level since the survey started (8.1 %), but rose to 8.8 % in 2013/14 and 8.6 % in 2014/15. In 2014/15 last year prevalence of cannabis use was 6.7 %, indicating a stabilisation in cannabis use in the most recent years. Prevalence was higher among younger respondents, and the long-term downward trend is also more apparent among this group, with last year prevalence for 16- to 24-year-olds decreasing from a high of 28.2 % in 1998 to 16.3 % in 2014/15. However, the declining trend appears to have levelled out since 2009/10. Current cannabis use was reported by 3.7 % of 16- to 59-year-olds in 2014/15, but was higher in younger age groups, with 8.4 % of those aged 16–24 reporting use of cannabis in the last month. Cannabis use among males is significantly higher than among females, and the gender difference is sustained across all ages.
Data from the CSEW for 2014/15 show that use of powder cocaine was reported by 2.4 % of 16- to 59-year-olds, and 4.8 % of 16- to 24-year-olds. Ecstasy is the third most frequently used substance, and, while these surveys indicate a gradual decline in its use among the general population, in 2014/15 there was an insignificant increase in reported last year ecstasy use. This increase is explained by a sharp, significant rise in reported ecstasy use among 16- to 24-year-old males, among whom ecstasy use has risen from 3.7 % in 2012/13 to 7.8 % in 2014/15. Last year ecstasy use also increased among 16- to 24-year-old females over the past two years, from 2.0 % to 3.0 %, while use among 25- to 59-year-olds has remained stable. There has been a decrease in last year amphetamine use since 1996, falling from 3.2 % to 0.6 % of 16- to 59-year-olds in 2014/15. A total of 0.5 % of respondents reported last year use of mephedrone in 2014/15, similar to the level reported in 2012/13 (0.5 %) and a decrease from 1.0 % in 2011/12 and 1.3 % in 2010/11.
In 2012/13 the SCJS shows that 28.4 % of people aged 16–64 in Scotland had tried any illicit drug at least once in their lives, and 7.8 % had used any illicit substance within the last year. Lifetime, recent and current drug use has fallen continuously since 2008/09. Of the individual drugs, lifetime prevalence of cannabis use was highest at 26.0 %, followed by amphetamines and ecstasy, both at 9.8 %, and cocaine at 9.1 %. Statistically significant reductions in last year use of cocaine, cannabis and ecstasy were reported between 2008/09 and 2012/13. Among 16- to 24-year-olds, for whom recent and current use of illicit drugs is more common, 13.8 % had tried cannabis in the last 12 months and 6.4 % in the last month
According to the NIDPS, the prevalence of any illicit drug use in Northern Ireland in 2010/11 was 27.3 % among 15- to 64-year-olds, with cannabis reported as the most commonly ever used drug at 24 %. Among those aged 15–24 some 26.8 % had ever used cannabis, 10.8 % had used it in the last 12 months, and 5.2 % in the last month.
The Smoking, Drinking and Drug Use Amongst Young People in England Survey (SDD), looking at students aged 11–15, has been undertaken annually in England since 1998. The latest available data is from 2014. In Scotland the Scottish Schools Adolescent Lifestyle and Substance Use Survey (SALSUS) among students aged 13 and 15 was last reported for 2013. Both studies showed that cannabis continues to be the most prevalent drug among school-age respondents, with 18.7 % of SDD 2014 respondents (15 years old) and 16.6 % of SALSUS 2013 respondents (15 years old) reporting ever having used cannabis. Both surveys also indicate a long-term decline in cannabis use among schoolchildren since 2004.
In Northern Ireland the Young Person's Behaviour and Attitude Survey among students aged 11–16 was first undertaken in 2000, and the latest available data is from 2013. For Wales, the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) survey was last conducted in 2013/14. As seen in the SDD and SALSUS, cannabis was the most prevalent drug reported in these surveys.
Look for Prevalence of drug use in the Statistical bulletin for more information
Establishing a whole-life approach to drug prevention covering early years, family support, drug education and targeted specialist support is one of the main aims of the United Kingdom drug strategy. The focus of prevention activities has shifted in recent years from programmes focusing specifically on drug use towards strengthening resilience factors associated with reducing the desire to explore risky behaviours, including drug use.
Universal drug prevention initiatives are an important policy area in the field of prevention. Drug prevention is part of the national curriculum throughout most of the United Kingdom, focused on building resilience in young people, and most schools have a drug education policy and guidelines on dealing with drug incidents.
In England, universal drug prevention is a statutory part of the science curriculum for schools and can be expanded through the non-statutory personal, social and health education (PSHE) programme. In 2013 an evaluation by Ofsted (responsible for inspecting and regulating services for children and young people) found that the PHSE curriculum required improvement in 40 % of schools. Following this evaluation, the newly launched Alcohol and Drug Education and Prevention Information Service (ADEPIS) introduced quality standards for schools covering the delivery of effective alcohol and drug education within the classroom.
In Scotland, prevention is part of broader life learning for children and young people through the Curriculum of Excellence, which is integrated with traditional education for 3- to 18-year-olds. A diversionary and educational initiative delivered by Police Scotland, Choices for Life, aims to give young people credible information on drugs and also allows teachers and other educators to exchange prevention practices. For example, specific activities addressing new psychoactive substances were introduced in 2014. In Wales, drug prevention initiatives are included as part of the All Wales School Liaison Core Programme, which targets pupils aged 5–16, and in Northern Ireland the school curriculum puts a specific focus on the development of relevant 'life skills' for keeping children safe and healthy.
The United Kingdom Government has prioritised the early identification of at-risk children and families and the provision of suitable interventions through the Troubled Families programme, which aims to provide a focused approach to the needs of the family as a whole and a tailored support service. Interventions within the programme include: parenting skills; drugs education for children; family support to help them stay together; addressing other problems; support for kinship carers; and in some cases intensive interventions. The programme was expanded in 2015 to include more families by broadening its eligibility criteria and has an increased focus on health. Another important element of selective prevention is the focus on vulnerable young people, such as young offenders, looked-after children, young homeless people, ethnic and sexual minorities, youths in deprived neighbourhoods, and youths from families with parents having substance use problems, through special programmes at the community level. Integrated Family Support Services, available across the majority of Wales, provide support for families with parental substance misuse issues.
Rise Above, an online resource and social movement for young people, was launched in November 2014 by Public Health England (PHE) with the aim of building young people's resilience and empowering them to make positive choices for their health (including with regard to drugs, alcohol, smoking, body confidence, relationships and exam stress). Targeted at 11- to 16-year-olds, Rise Above aims to build young people's skills by encouraging them to engage with a range of situational resources rather than simply providing them with information. This approach is in line with the evidence base, and PHE is working with key academics to assess the effectiveness of the programme and to ensure it has maximum impact.
The Manchester Warehouse Project in collaboration with Durham University has introduced a monthly drug testing pilot scheme that involves testing drugs posted in the amnesty box or confiscated by security in and around the venue. Communication programmes such as Talk to FRANK in England, Know the Score in Scotland and DAN 24/7 in Wales provide information and advice to young people and their families.
See the Prevention profile for the United Kingdom for more information.
Up to 2012 the EMCDDA defined problem drug use as injecting drug use or long duration/regular use of opiates, cocaine and/or amphetamines. However, in 2012 a new definition of 'high-risk drug use' was adopted. The new definition includes 'problem drug use', but is broader (mainly in its inclusion of high-risk use of more substances). Details are available here.
In England, estimates are available of the number of opioid and/or crack cocaine users and injecting drug users. For Scotland, estimates are available of the number of problematic opioid use and/or illicit use of benzodiazepines and drug injecting. In Wales, the most recent estimates refer to users of 'opioids only', 'stimulants only' and 'both'. Stimulants include cocaine/crack and amphetamine-type substances. In Northern Ireland the last available estimates (for 2004) refer to high-risk opioid and/or high-risk cocaine powder users. Estimates are mostly obtained through capture–recapture and/or multiple indicator methods, as is appropriate for the data concerned. In 2014 the United Kingdom reviewed its approach to combining high-risk drug use estimates excluding Northern Ireland.
Latest estimates for the United Kingdom (2004–11) (1) suggest that there were 330 455 high-risk opioid users (95 % confidence interval (CI): 324 048–342 569), which corresponds to a rate of 8.06 (95 % CI: 7.91–8.36) per 1 000 inhabitants aged 15–64. There were an estimated 122 894 injecting drugs users (95 % CI: 117 370–131 869), or 3.0 per 1 000 inhabitants aged 15–64 (95 % CI: 2.87–3.22). According to a new approach for a combined high-risk drug use estimate, there were an estimated 371 279 (2) high-risk drug users in the United Kingdom (95 % CI: 364 418–388 306), or 9.16 per 1 000 inhabitants aged 15–64 (95 % CI: 8.99–9.58).
About 0.6 % of the United Kingdom's population aged 15–64 use cannabis daily or almost daily, based on the estimate derived from the most recent studies on drug use among the general population.
(1) The figure refers to an annual estimate. It is based on the 2010/11 English estimate, the 2009/10 Scottish and Welsh estimates and the 2004 Northern Irish estimate.
(2) Based on the 2011/12 English estimate and the 2009/10 Scottish and Welsh estimates.
Look for High-risk drug use in the Statistical bulletin for more information.
In the United Kingdom, treatment demand data are reported in aggregated form at the national level from four systems: the National Drug Treatment Monitoring System in England (NDTMS); the Scottish Drug Misuse Database; the Welsh National Database for Substance Misuse; and the Northern Ireland Drug Misuse Database. Data from the four systems are combined into United Kingdom totals for reporting to the EMCDDA. The national focal point, the UK Focal Point on Drugs, is located within Public Health England, which also houses the NDTMS. It receives aggregated data from the four systems from the National Drug Evidence Centre at the University of Manchester. The treatment demand indicator (TDI) protocol version 3.0 was implemented in England and Wales in 2013. In 2014 treatment demand data for the United Kingdom were collected from 894 outpatient and 116 inpatient treatment units, 20 low-threshold agencies, four treatment units in prisons (just Northern Ireland) and 70 general practitioners. In 2014 a total of 100 456 clients entered treatment, of which 35 007 were new clients entering treatment for the first time.
As in previous years, opioids were the most reported primary drug among all treatment clients at 52.1 % in 2014, followed by cannabis at 26.0 % and cocaine at 12.6 %. Among clients who had never been previously treated, the primary substance of use was cannabis at 46.6 %, followed by opioids at 23.2 % and cocaine at 16.9 % (1). About 33 % of all and 21 % of new treatment clients who reported use of opioids injected the drug.
In 2014 the mean age of all treatment clients was 32, while new treatment clients tend to be younger with an average age of 28. With regard to gender distribution, 75 % of all and 72 % of new treatment clients were male.
(1) Cocaine data refers to both cocaine powder and crack cocaine users. In 2014 some 8.9 % of all and 13.7 % of new treatment clients indicated their primary substance of use was cocaine powder, while 3.2 % of all and 2.1 % of new treatment clients indicated crack cocaine as their primary substance.
Look for Treatment demand indicator in the Statistical bulletin for more information.
Data on the prevalence of blood-borne infectious diseases among people who inject drugs (PWID) are available from a number of sources in the United Kingdom. The Unlinked Anonymous Monitoring (UAM) survey of people who inject drugs monitors blood-borne virus prevalence among current and former PWID attending drug services in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. There are also regular sero-behavioural surveys of people who inject drugs attending needle and syringe programmes in Scotland. Another source of information on blood-borne infections is laboratory reports, which are collected separately for England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
The latest data show that in 2014 there were 131 human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) diagnoses where infection was thought to have been acquired through injecting drug use. The overall prevalence of HIV amongst PWID in 2014 was similar to that seen in recent years, and remains higher than that found in the late 1990s. The prevalence of HIV amongst the current and former PWID taking part in the UAM survey across England, Wales and Northern Ireland in 2014 was 1.0 % (1.0 % England, 1.1 % in Wales and 0.65 % in Northern Ireland). In the same survey, HIV prevalence among those who had injected drugs for fewer than three years was 0.41%, which indicates that the virus is continuing to be transmitted in the community, albeit at a low level. In Scotland only 0.8 % of those attending needle and syringe programmes during 2013/14 were found to be HIV antibody positive.
In 2014 some 1 654 HIV-infected PWID were seen for HIV-related treatment or care in the United Kingdom. In the same year, some 87 % of the people with HIV acquired through injecting drug use who had been recommended to start antiretroviral treatment received it.
It is estimated that around 90 % of all hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections in the United Kingdom have been acquired through injecting drug use, and the prevalence of HCV infection amongst PWID remains relatively high. In 2014, the prevalence of antibodies to HCV among PWID participating in the UAM survey in England and Wales was 50 %; this proportion has remained relatively stable over the last decade. In Northern Ireland prevalence was lower, at 32 %. While in Northern Ireland and England the prevalence has been relatively stable, in Wales there has been an increase in HCV prevalence in recent years. HCV prevalence also varies markedly among the regions of England. In Scotland, the estimated prevalence among clients of the Scottish Needle Exchange Surveillance Initiative (NESI) in 2013/14 was 57 %. The prevalence varies according not only to region, but also to other risk factors such as age and duration of injecting. However, the overall level of HCV transmission amongst PWID in the United Kingdom appears to have changed little in recent years. The prevalence of antibodies to HCV amongst recent initiates has also been fairly stable, and incidence is currently estimated to be 5–16 infections per 100 person years of exposure in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, and around 10 infections per 100 person years of exposure in Scotland.
The prevalence of hepatitis B virus (HBV) antibodies among PWID who took part in the UAM Survey in England, Wales and Northern Ireland has remained relatively stable in recent years. In the latest survey in 2014 the prevalence rate varied by country, with rates between 7.1 % (Northern Ireland) and 14.8 % (England and Wales). The decline is partly attributed to the increased uptake of the HBV vaccine among injecting drug users in England, Wales and Northern Ireland from 50 % in 2003 to 72 % in 2014.
The level of direct needle/syringe sharing reported by PWID in the UAM survey in England, Wales and Northern Ireland decreased from 34 % in 2002 to 17 % in 2014. This decline has occurred during a period when needle and syringe provision in the United Kingdom has been expanding. However, there are regional and also gender variations in needle/syringe sharing behaviour, thus in 2014 around 22 % of PWID in Wales reported sharing needles or syringes in the past year, and 21 % of females reported direct needle or syringe sharing, compared to 15 % of males.
With regard to other drug-related infectious disease, sporadic cases of anthrax, tetanus and wound botulism were reported in 2013–15 among people who inject drugs, as well as one large outbreak of botulism among this group in Scotland. The epidemiological analysis indicates that environmental contamination of heroin was the likely cause of these infections. An outbreak of soft tissue infections was also reported in Scotland in 2015.
Look for Drug-related infectious diseases in the Statistical bulletin for more information.
Information on acute deaths in the United Kingdom is provided by three General Mortality Registers (England/Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland) and one Special Mortality Register. The data are reported based on three different definitions. The EMCDDA definition refers to death caused directly by the consumption of at least one illicit drug, while the Drug Misuse Definition, developed for the United Kingdom's former Drug Strategy, measures cases of death where the underlying cause is drug abuse, drug dependence or poisoning where any substances scheduled under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 are involved. The third definition, used by the Office for National Statistics, is much wider than other definitions and also includes death as a result of legal prescription and over-the-counter drugs.
Based on the EMCDDA definition, the number of drug-induced deaths in the United Kingdom rose steadily from 1996 to 2001, fell from 2001 to 2003, but then increased to a peak of 2 432 in 2009. Deaths recorded in each of the three years following this peak were notably lower (averaging 2 144 per year). However, in 2013 a total of 2 449 drug-induced deaths were reported, a steep increase from 2012 and slightly above the peak reported in 2009, making it the highest number reported to date. Due to delays in the registration of deaths, the number of deaths occurring in 2014 is not yet known but statistics published on the number of deaths registered in 2014 according to the Drug Misuse Definition suggest a further increase is likely. In 2013 three-quarters of victims were male, with a mean age of 41.6 at the time of death. The presence of opioids was toxicologically confirmed in 2 160 cases.
Based on the Drug Misuse Definition, the number of drug-induced deaths registered in the United Kingdom has followed a similar pattern, but the total number of cases was higher. In 2014 a total of 2 936 Drug Misuse Definition cases were recorded (with 2 551 recorded in 2013). Opioids (chiefly heroin/morphine and methadone) were mentioned on the death certificate in most (2 400) of these cases. There was a drop in heroin-related deaths in 2011, and the level remained stable in 2012 but increased in 2013. After an increase in the number of deaths mentioning methadone in 2011, the following years indicated a drop in the absolute number.
The drug-induced mortality rate among adults in the United Kingdom (aged 15–64) was 55.9 deaths per million in 2013, almost three time more than the most recent European average of 19.2 deaths per million.
Look for Drug-related deaths in the Statistical bulletin for more information.
All United Kingdom drug strategies give priority to the provision of better access to effective and comprehensive treatment, particularly for vulnerable or excluded groups, and to encouraging client retention, recovery and reintegration. Local authorities are responsible for the delivery of drug treatment through multi-agency partnerships representing health, criminal justice agencies and social care services. Increased attention has been given in recent years to measuring the health and social outcomes associated with treatment. In England, for example, the Government's main indicator for measuring the treatment systems' performance is the treatment outcome measure — the number leaving treatment free from their drug(s) of dependency and not re-presenting to treatment for six months.
Drug treatment in the United Kingdom encompasses a range of available treatments and services including community- and primary care-based prescribing, community one-to-one and group-based psychosocial interventions to support recovery, inpatient treatment, day programmes, and quasi- and full residential drug treatment and rehabilitation supports. Prescribing (mainly of methadone) is provided for stabilisation, detoxification, maintenance and relapse prevention. Local areas across the United Kingdom are expected to provide a wide range of services, including information and advice, screening, care planning, psychosocial interventions, community prescribing, inpatient drug treatment and residential rehabilitation. In addition, drug misusers should be offered aftercare and relapse-prevention programmes, HBV vaccinations, testing for HBV, HCV and HIV, and access to hepatitis and HIV treatment. In England, guidance by an expert group on recovery-orientated treatment was published in 2012. Alongside the development of a suite of recovery resources, this provided a new national framework for best practice for practitioners and effectively updated and replaced the Models of Care document and the previous four-tiered treatment framework in England. In addition, a manual for practitioners and a diagnostic tool for partnerships were published to support effective recovery-focused intervention and to optimise treatment. A guidance document on recovery-oriented integrated systems of care was also published by the Welsh Government in 2013. In 2014 a number of care quality standards were published in Scotland, England and Northern Ireland. The Drug Interventions Programme in England and Wales targeted drug users in the criminal justice system, offering them a range of treatment and social reintegration responses through criminal justice intervention teams based in the community and in the prison system. From April 2013 this programme was no longer centrally funded and local areas must decide which mechanism to use to route offenders into treatment. The Drug Rehabilitation Requirement in England and Wales is a court mandated community sentence with a drug treatment condition attached. In Scotland, Drug Treatment and Testing Orders serve the same purpose.
Opioid substitution treatment (OST) remains the most common treatment in the United Kingdom for opiate users, and is mostly offered through specialist outpatient drug services, commonly in shared care arrangements with general practitioners. Oral methadone is the most commonly prescribed drug for substitution treatment but buprenorphine has also been available since 1999. Furthermore, prescribed injectable methadone and diamorphine are also available in England, although this is rare.
Section 7.3(a) of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 allows for the prescription and administration of controlled drugs by medical practitioners, and Section 10.2(g)–(i) allows for the development of regulations on the control and monitoring of prescriptions of controlled drugs. The enabling legislation for substitution treatment is the Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001, and treatment can be initiated and provided by general practitioners, specialised medical doctors and treatment centres. The latest available estimates on the total number of clients in OST are: 607 in Northern Ireland in 2010/11; 22 224 received methadone treatment in Scotland in 2006/07; 146 875 received a prescribed intervention in England in 2014; and 1 993 in Wales in 2014.
See the Treatment profile for the United Kingdom for additional information.
The reduction of drug-induced deaths, infectious diseases, co-morbidity and other health consequences are key policy issues within the United Kingdom's drug strategies. Interventions include information campaigns on the risks associated with drug use, information on safer injecting and safer sex, provision of free needles and syringes, promotion of safe disposal of used equipment, infection counselling, support and testing, vaccinations against HBV, referral to drug treatment, antiretroviral treatment for HIV and HCV, and the provision of take-home naloxone and training of drug users and their family members on its application.
In April 2014 an updated public health guidance on needle and syringe programmes was issued by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence. Sterile syringes and other injecting equipment are provided by a wide range of facilities, principally pharmacies and specialist treatment agencies, but also through detached street outreach and mobile van units. In Wales, a vending machine is available in a community-based homeless centre. Services are available across all regions of the United Kingdom, but data on syringes distributed in England are not available. Latest available estimates are 3 141 000 for Wales in 2014; 3 816 000 for Scotland in 2014 (only through special outlets); and 242 000 for Northern Ireland in 2013. The vast majority (89 %) of the participants of the UAM survey among people who inject drugs across England, Wales and Northern Ireland indicated that they had used needle and syringe programmes in 2014.
In 2003 the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 (see section on national drug laws) was amended to allow doctors, pharmacists and drug workers to legally supply swabs, sterile water, certain mixing utensils and citric acid to drug users who obtained controlled drugs without a prescription. There are national naloxone programmes in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland allowing the use of naloxone in non-clinical settings such as hostels as well as facilitating the distribution of naloxone kits to those at risk of overdose or to their families and carers. In October 2015 legislative changes came into force to increase the availability of naloxone. These changes make naloxone exempt from prescription-only medicine requirements when it is supplied by a drug service commissioned by a local authority or the National Health Service.
Following a careful review of evidence in 2010, the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs recommended the exemption of foil provision as an offence under the Act in order to allow its distribution as a harm reduction intervention. In July 2013 the government announced its decision to enable the lawful provision of foil in drug services, subject to its provision as part of structured efforts to engage drug users in recovery-oriented treatment, with monitoring arrangements put in place. The required amendment to the Misuse of Drugs Regulation 2001 for the provision of foil came into effect in September 2014.
In response to anthrax outbreaks among heroin users in 2009–12, guidance for professionals (clinicians, drug workers, etc.) and advice for drug users were developed, and are regularly updated. Additionally, following a recent cluster of cases of botulism among PWID in Scotland, a pragmatic risk reduction approach was taken, advising users on how best to reduce their risk of infection.
See the Harm reduction overview for the United Kingdom for additional information.
Most of the identified drug supply chains to the United Kingdom follow well-established trafficking routes. Heroin originates from Afghanistan and is transited through either Pakistan or Iran. Cocaine is produced in Colombia, Peru and Bolivia, with Spain and the Netherlands being the main transit hubs within Europe for cocaine on the way to the United Kingdom. The Netherlands is the most significant source for traditional synthetic drugs such as ecstasy and amphetamine, while China is where most new psychoactive substances (NPS) bought online originate. Domestic production of high-potency cannabis does occur, although most cannabis comes from abroad, with Africa and the Caribbean being the main sources for herbal cannabis, while resin mainly originates from Morocco and Afghanistan. Branded 'skunk' is imported from the Netherlands. Within the United Kingdom, supply chains take many forms with varying numbers of transactions between the importer and the user.
Arrests for drug offences, having risen between 2006/07 and 2010/11, have decreased in recent years but remain more numerous than before the increase. In 2014 some 128 260 convictions or cautions for drug offences were reported in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. For the offences where a drug was known (England, Wales and Scotland), 50.8 % were cannabis-related, 14.5 % cocaine-related and 8.9 % heroin-related.
Cannabis is the most frequently seized drug in the United Kingdom, followed by cocaine. Apart from herbal cannabis, the number of seizures for cannabis products and the quantity of all seized products has decreased when compared with the preceding year. Seizures reported in 2013 (1) were 1 133.6 kg of cannabis resin, 18 705 kg of herbal cannabis and 484 645 of cannabis plants. In 2013 some 3 561.5 kg of cocaine was seized (1). The number of heroin seizures has been declining in recent years, with the lowest number of heroin seizures reported in 2012 (1). Although the number of seizures slightly increased in 2013/14 (1), the quantity of heroin seized was a record low (784.9 kg).
Following a huge decline in the number of ecstasy-type tablets seized since 2006, from more than 6 million down to 171 000 tablets in 2009, the figure increased to 700 800 in 2011, but reduced again in 2012 and 2013 (1). In recent years there has been a steady increase in the quantity of amphetamine seized, from 983 kg in 2010 to 1 730.1 kg in 2013 (1).
(1) Data for Scotland were available in 2010 for the first time since 2006. Since 2006, seizures data have been published on a financial year basis (data reported as 2006 is for 2006/2007, data reported as 2007 is for 2007/2008, etc.).
Look for Drug law offences in the Statistical bulletin for additional data.
The Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, with amendments, is the main law regulating drug control in the United Kingdom. It divides controlled substances into three classes (A, B, C) that provide a basis for attributing penalties for offences.
Maximum penalties vary not only according to the class of substance but also according to whether the conviction is made at a magistrates' court for a summary offence or made on indictment following a trial at a Crown Court.
Drug use per se is not an offence under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971; it is the possession of the drug that constitutes an offence. Summary convictions for the unlawful possession of Class A drugs such as heroin or cocaine involve penalties of up to six months' imprisonment or a fine; on indictment, penalties may reach seven years' imprisonment. Class B drugs such as cannabis and amphetamines attract penalties at magistrate level of up to three months' imprisonment and/or a fine; on indictment it may be up to five years' imprisonment and/or an unlimited fine. Possession of most Class C drugs, such as barbiturates, attracts penalties of up to three months' imprisonment and/or a fine at magistrate level; or up to two years' imprisonment and/or an unlimited fine on indictment. There are also a number of alternative responses, such as cannabis warnings and cautions from the police, who have considerable powers of discretion. In addition, temporary class drug orders (TCDOs) have been introduced through the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 to give a faster legislative response to NPS.
Under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 a distinction is made between the possession of controlled drugs and possession with intent to supply to another; this latter is effectively for drug trafficking offences. The Drug Trafficking Act 1994 defines drug trafficking as transporting or storing, importing or exporting, manufacturing or supplying drugs covered by the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971. The penalties applied depend again on the classification of the drug and on the penal procedure (magistrate level or Crown Court level). For trafficking in Class A drugs, the maximum penalty on indictment is life imprisonment, while trafficking of Class B and C drugs can attract a penalty of up to 14 years in prison. Under the Drug Trafficking — Section 110 Power of Criminal Courts (Sentencing) Act 2000 a minimum sentence of seven years was introduced for a third conviction for trafficking in Class A drugs.
From 2016 the Psychoactive Substances Act criminalises production, supply or possession with intent to supply of any psychoactive substance knowing that it is to be used for its psychoactive effects. Simple possession of such substances does not constitute an offence; however, possession within a custodial institution does. Supply offences are aggravated by proximity to school, using a minor as a courier, or being carried out in a custodial institution. Maximum penalties are seven years' imprisonment on indictment or one year on summary conviction.
Go to the European Legal Database on Drugs (ELDD) for additional information.
Launched in December 2010, the Drug Strategy 2010: Reducing Demand, Restricting Supply, Building Recovery is primarily concerned with illicit drugs, but also includes alcohol use. The strategy has two overarching aims: (i) to reduce illicit and other harmful drug use; and (ii) to increase the numbers recovering from their dependence. This document replaced the 2008 strategy published by the previous government and has a greater emphasis on recovery, with more responsibility placed on individuals to seek help and overcome dependency. Increased weight is given to providing a more holistic approach by addressing other issues in addition to treatment. This is designed to support people who are dependent on drugs or alcohol by addressing issues such as offending, employment and housing. The strategy aims to reduce demand and takes an uncompromising approach to targeting those involved in supplying drugs in the United Kingdom and internationally. In addition, it places more power and accountability in the hands of local communities to tackle drugs and the harms they cause. The strategy's aims are addressed though three thematic areas: (i) reducing demand; (ii) restricting supply; and (iii) building recovery in communities.
The United Kingdom Government is responsible for setting the overall strategy and for its delivery in the devolved administrations only in matters where it has reserved power. Within the strategy, policies concerning health, education, housing and social care are confined to England, while those for policing and the criminal justice system cover both England and Wales.
As part of its annual review of the Drug Strategy, the United Kingdom Government published an Action Plan on New Psychoactive Substances in May 2012. In the area of demand reduction it seeks to highlight the potential risks and harms from these substances, improve the quality of drug education and work with partners to enhance knowledge and evidence on these drugs. Actions in the area of supply reduction include increasing the understanding of the threat posed by these substances, making full use of the legislative framework, strengthening the enforcement response and bolstering the global response.
A number of powers are devolved to Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, and each of these countries has its own strategy. Both the current Welsh strategy, Working Together to Reduce Harm: The Substance Misuse Strategy for Wales 2008–18, and Scotland's strategy, The Road to Recovery: A New Approach to Tackling Scotland's Drug Problem, were adopted in 2008. The current Northern Irish policy, New Strategic Direction for Alcohol and Drugs Phase 2: 2011–16, was launched in 2011. Strategies in Northern Ireland and Wales address both illicit drugs and alcohol. All of the devolved administrations' drug strategies are accompanied by action plans and are subject to annual implementation progress reviews.
The United Kingdom Government is responsible for setting the overall strategy and for its delivery in the devolved administrations only in areas where it has reserved power. In the Drug Strategy 2010, policies concerning health, education, housing and social care are confined to England; those for policing and the criminal justice system cover England and Wales. The Drug Strategy 2010 is a cross-government strategy, although secretariat and programme management responsibilities fall to the Home Office. The Drug Strategy has been designed to align policy development and planning across government departments and agencies and to support a cohesive, interrelated approach to delivery at the local level.
The Scottish Government has devolved responsibility for health and education and much of the justice agenda in Scotland. In 2008 it launched its own drug strategy, The Road to Recovery. This strategy focuses on person-centred care, treatment and recovery, prevention, enforcement and children affected by parental drug misuse. Implementation is led locally by 30 Alcohol and Drug Partnerships (ADPs), accountable within local arrangements for community planning. ADPs are responsible for directing the funding allocated to them in alignment with outcome-focused local alcohol and drug strategies, based on an assessment of needs in their area. The Scottish Drug Strategy Delivery Commission, consisting of experts with a wide range of expertise, provides independent expert advice and challenges to Scottish Ministers on the delivery of Scotland's national drug strategy.
In Wales the National Substance Misuse Strategy Implementation Board oversees the implementation of the 10-year Welsh substance misuse strategy, Working Together to Reduce Harm, and its associated implementation plan. Seven Substance Misuse Area Planning Boards have been established to support the planning, commissioning and performance management of substance misuse services in Wales. These are coterminous with Local Health Boards and bring existing members of Community Safety Partnerships together with probation services, the Drug Interventions Programme, Public Health Wales and the voluntary services.
In Northern Ireland the Drugs and Alcohol Implementation Steering Group coordinates implementation of the Northern Ireland Substance Misuse Strategy at the governmental level. In addition, several working groups have been established to support the development of action in specific areas.
No budgets are allocated under the United Kingdom's drug strategies. Budget allocations are provided annually to local commissioners responsible for providing relevant services. In 2013 the financing of drug interventions underwent considerable change. For instance, central funding for drug testing on arrest with the aim of referring offenders to treatment services (Drug Interventions Programme) was discontinued in England and Wales. These funds are now subsumed into the Police Main Grant with the decision as to whether to continue such initiatives taken locally. Decentralisation was also implemented with regard to the financing of drug treatment services and other health programmes. Local authorities have become responsible for allocating public health grants in England between services, including drug treatment.
The government commissioned studies on economic and social costs in 2002, 2006 and 2013 (1, 2, 3). Furthermore, between 2005 and 2010 labelled expenditure was estimated every year through administrative records, but unlabelled expenditure was rarely available (4).
In 2010 total drug-related expenditure, including expenditure on some indirect consequences of drug use, represented 0.49 % of gross domestic product (GDP), with 64.9 % financing public order and safety, 22.5 % for social protection and 11.7 % for health (5). This distribution was identical for both the total and the unlabelled expenditures. For labelled expenditure, 64.5 % was allocated to health, 28.4 % to public order and safety, 6.0 % to general public services, 1.0 % to social protection and 0.1 % to education.
Trend analysis shows that between 2005 and 2010 labelled expenditures remained broadly stable in terms of the percentage of GDP (varying between 0.07 % and 0.08 % of GDP). In the years leading up to 2010 some labelled expenditures have declined. Comprehensive estimates of both labelled and unlabelled expenditure were provided for 2005 and 2010 but they are not comparable. They used different methods and estimated different elements of expenditure.
Following the decentralisation of public health spending, implemented in 2013, it is now more difficult to estimate drug-related expenditure in the United Kingdom. Drug treatment budget allocations were consolidated within wider public health grants, over which local areas have greater autonomy to allocate funds according to their assessment of their area's public health needs.
In England, following public consultation, the Health Premium Incentive Scheme was launched. It offers financial incentives to local authorities when progress is made in improving the health of the local populations and in particular substance misuse. The scheme for 2015/16 is supported by a modest incentive budget of GBP 5m and local authorities will receive a share of this money if they are able to show an improvement of around 2 % in the number of people who recover from drug dependency (measured by an increase in the proportion who successfully complete treatment with no return within six months).
Table 1: Total drug-related public expenditure, 2010
Labelled expenditure (thousand EUR)
% of total
Unlabelled expenditure (thousand EUR)
% of total
Total expenditure(thousand EUR)
% of total
|(a) According to the United Nations Classification of the Functions of Government (COFOG) Eurostat data sources: http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/ (general) and http://unstats.un.org/unsd/cr/registry/regcst.asp?Cl=4.
(b) Adjusted to 2005/06 prices.
(b) EMCDDA estimations.
Source: National Annual report of the United Kingdom (2013).
|Public order and safety
|321 389
|5 157 721
|5 479 110
|Social protection
|11 657
|1 887 182
|1 898 839
|730 206
|258 791
|988 997
|1 049
|1 049
|General public services
|68 194
|68 194
|1 132 495
|7 303 694
|8 436 189
|% of total expenditure
|% of GDP
In the United Kingdom, funding for research comes mainly from governmental sources. The main organisations involved in conducting drug-related research are university departments, although non-governmental and governmental organisations are also relevant partners. Several channels for disseminating drug-related research findings are available, ranging from scientific journals to dedicated websites, reports, guidance and conferences. Recent drug-related studies mentioned in the 2014 United Kingdom National report, include all areas of research, but mainly focus on aspects related to responses to the drug situation, consequences of drug use and drug use prevalence. Research on the mechanisms of drug use and effects, methodological issues and supply and markets is also widely available.
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|All clients entering treatment (%)
|New clients entering treatment (%)
|Purity — heroin brown (%)
|Price per gram — heroin brown (EUR)
|Prevalence of drug use — schools (%)
|Prevalence of drug use — young adults (%)
|Prevalence of drug use — all adults (%)
|All clients entering treatment (%)
|New clients entering treatment (%)
|Purity (%)
|Price per gram (EUR)
|Prevalence of drug use — schools (%)
|Prevalence of drug use — young adults (%)
|Prevalence of drug use — all adults (%)
|All clients entering treatment (%)
|New clients entering treatment (%)
|Purity (%)
|Price per gram (EUR)
|Prevalence of drug use — schools (%)
|Prevalence of drug use — young adults (%)
|Prevalence of drug use — all adults (%)
|All clients entering treatment (%)
|New clients entering treatment (%)
|Purity (mg of MDMA base per unit)
|90 mg
|27 mg
|131 mg
|Price per tablet (EUR)
|Prevalence of drug use — schools (%)
|Prevalence of drug use — young adults (%)
|Prevalence of drug use — all adults (%)
|All clients entering treatment (%)
|New clients entering treatment (%)
|Potency — herbal (%)
|Potency — resin (%)
|Price per gram — herbal (EUR)
|Price per gram — resin (EUR)
|Prevalence of problem drug use
|Problem drug use (rate/1 000)
|Injecting drug use (rate/1 000)
|Drug-related infectious diseases/deaths
|HIV infections newly diagnosed (cases / million)
|HIV prevalence (%)
|HCV prevalence (%)
|Drug-related deaths (rate/million)
|Health and social responses
|Syringes distributed
|7 199 660
|7 199 660
|Clients in substitution treatment
|148 868
|161 388
|Treatment demand
|All clients
|100 456
|100 456
|New clients
|35 007
|35 007
|All clients with known primary drug
|97 068
|97 068
|New clients with known primary drug
|34 088
|34 088
|Drug law offences
|Number of reports of offences
|138 456
|282 177
|Offences for use/possession
|89 291
|398 422
b Break in series.
e Estimated.
p Eurostat provisional value.
: Not available.
1 Gross domestic product (GDP) is a measure of economic activity. It is defined as the value of all goods and services produced less the value of any goods or services used in their creation. The volume index of GDP per capita in Purchasing Power Standards (PPS) is expressed in relation to the European Union (EU-27) average set to equal 100. If the index of a country is higher than 100, this country's level of GDP per head is higher than the EU average and vice versa.
2 Expenditure on social protection contains: benefits, which consist of transfers in cash or in kind to households and individuals to relieve them of the burden of a defined set of risks or needs.
3 Unemployment rates represent unemployed persons as a percentage of the labour force. Unemployed persons comprise persons aged 15 to 74 who were: (a) without work during the reference week; (b) currently available for work; (c) actively seeking work.
4 Situation of penal institutions on 1 September, 2014.
5 Share of persons aged 0+ with an equivalent disposable income below the at-risk-of-poverty threshold, which is set at 60 % of the national median equivalised disposable income (after social transfers).
|EU (28 countries)
|64 351 155
|506 944 075 bep
|Population by age classes
|12.7 % ep
|11.3 % bep
|33.9 % ep
|34.7 % bep
|18.2 % ep
|19.9 % bep
|GDP per capita in PPS (Purchasing Power Standards) 1
|Total expenditure on social protection (% of GDP) 2
|28.1 % p
|Unemployment rate 3
|5.3 %
|9.4 %
|Unemployment rate of population aged under 25 years
|14.6 %
|20.2 %
|Prison population rate (per 100 000 of national population) 4
101.3 (Northern Ireland)
149.7 (England and Wales)
147.6 (Scotland)
|Council of Europe, SPACE I-2014.1
|At risk of poverty rate 5
|16.8 %
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Jack Drescher, MD, is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City.
Dr. Drescher is Past President of the Group for Advancement of Psychiatry, and a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, and a Past President of APA's New York County Psychiatric Society.
Dr. Drescher served as a member of APA's DSM-5 Workgroup on Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders. Since 2011, he has served as a member of the World Health Organization's Working Group on the Classification of Sexual Disorders and Sexual Health which will address sex and gender diagnoses in WHO's forthcoming (2018) revisions of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11). He is also a member of the Honorary Scientific Committee revising the 2nd edition of the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual (PDM-2).
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A note about - Reaffirmation Agreements
Sunday, July 15, 2012 at 10:08PM
I recently had a friend send me an email sharing her post-chapter 7 frustration with her mortgage company. The mortgage lender ("Lender") sent her a "reaffirmation agreement" during her bankruptcy case. Just fyi, this is fine; they are not violating the automatic stay by sending such a request. Her attorney did not explain the reaffirmation request to her and months after her discharge she found herself still unable to use the Lender's online/automatic bill payment program. When she inquired why she was still blocked, even though her bankruptcy case had been closed for months, the Lender's representative told her it was because her attorney had not filed the reaffirmation agreement. … The Lender was totally misleading her! The fact is 95% of bankruptcy judges, at least in New Jersey, will not enter or approve reaffirmation agreements anymore - at all - because they believe they are wholly contrary to the purpose of a bankruptcy filing and the relief granted thereby. The Lender can refuse to give you the accommodation of online/automated payments, but that is just them making your life uncomfortable. There are ways around that anyway; like setting up automatic bill pay directly through your checking account, for example, rather than through the Lender's system. If the Lender crosses the line and stops accepting payments in other methods– – then you have the right to sue them for violating the bankruptcy order for relief. Your counsel fees will be paid by the Lender if you prevail. I have to say, the one huge, glaring mistake my friend's attorney made (and it's an unfortunately very common mistake) was failing to explain this to his client during the bankruptcy case. So, I thought I would post this story in the hopes that it may help someone else as well. My goal is to help everyone I meet - make it a great day! Cheers!


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This is a tribute and emotional summary of the seminal Studs Terkel volume – Working; people talk about what they do all day and how they feel about what they do – in which he interviewed American workers of all types about their jobs. They showed remarkable self-reflection and insight and the book was a best-seller. Given all the changes looming to the work in our domain this is worth revisiting.
I lived in Studs Terkel's Chicago when this book came out. He was the voice of the working man that formed the backbone of Chicago's self-image. Discontent runs through the 'Working' interviews. I wonder whether librarian job satisfaction has become more volatile over the recent past?


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Date of Stay: March, 2013
Abita Springs' location couldn't be better, just across the lake from New Orleans and in gorgeous pine forests. This might be our favorite OCP property. The last year there have been a lot of improvements, like completely replacing the pool deck. There is always so much going on at this park, and the staff here even know where our favorite campsite is so they try to accommodate us and make sure we get our space. Every year they have a big crawfish boil in April with music. The staff is so friendly and always willing to help. I don't rate it a 10/10 because we need better bathrooms.
Date of Stay: March, 2013
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Really nice. Close to Pattis Settlement and Grand Rivers. Seniors get 50% off. A bargain. Beach, fishing, hiking.
Date of Stay: July, 2013
We've stayed here for several years. It's a great location. Close to Hunts Seafood restaurant. Unfortunately, it has gone downhill. Roaches in the bathroom. Dirty and lots of shady trailer occupants. Will not stay again. Note: Please see Cherry Blossom Rv for new info.
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One-Week Trial Memberships in January at East Ventura County YMCAs
Residents in east Ventura County can tour their local Y and receive a one-week, full-use YMCA trial membership. The trial memberships are available at the Miller Family YMCA of Newbury Park, the Conejo Valley YMCA and the Simi Family YMCA.
The Conejo Valley YMCA (serving Thousand Oaks, Moorpark and Santa Rosa Valley) will hold its open house week January 2 through January 7 where the community can take part in swim evaluations, zumba and other workouts classes and family programs. On Saturday, January 7, there will be a Community Health Fair from 8 a.m. to noon with vendors on hand to answer questions and perform health screenings. Facility tours will be available.
The Simi Valley Y's open house takes place Saturday, January 7 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Residents can receive free blood pressure, resting heart rate and body fat tests, take part in group exercise and water aerobics classes and sign up for a week of trial membership.
"The YMCA is more than a gym. It's a positive community gathering spot," says Katie Beck, executive director at the Miller Family YMCA. "At the YMCA, you can lose weight, tone up, reduce stress, spend time with your family, make friends, provide value-based activities for your children and just feel better in general." The Miller Family Y the open house week is January 16 through the 22.
"January is the perfect time to refocus our attention on living a healthy lifestyle, from eating and exercise habits to creating and strengthening relationships,"
Facility tours and trial passes are available at the following branches: Conejo Valley YMCA (4031 N. Moorpark Rd., Thousand Oaks, 805-523-7613)
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Course Number and Cost Students must register for FREN 690 for the spring semester of study. UNH tuition and the special course fee cover registration at the Burgundy School of Business, mandatory health insurance, courses, and excursions. Students are responsible for the payment of their housing, food and travel costs. Other routine expenses include books and supplies, and miscellaneous living costs. The cost of additional travel in Europe, souvenirs, etc. should be considered when planning one's budget. 2013 Spring EcoGastronomy in France at the Burgundy School of Business, Dijon, France Estimated Costs Tuition for NH Residents Tuition for Out-of-State Residents UNH technology and maintenance fees CampusFrance and Visa fees Est. Additional Expenses Est. Airfare Total Est. Costs for NH Residents Total Est. Costs for Out-of-State Residents
$6,835 $13,670 $ 88.50 $168 $4,960* $1200 $13,251.5 $20,086.50
On-site Costs* See Cost of Living
Cost of living Although substantially cheaper than in larger towns such as Paris, Lyon or Marseille, living in Dijon is perhaps slightly more expensive than international students are used to in their home countries. On average, accommodation, meals, entertainment, etc. can reach an average total of 770 €uros a month.
Estimation of Costs (euros per month) There are usually extra expenses during the first month while getting settled. Expenses vary depending on personal spending habits. (€ / month) Minimum Average Food 200 250 Telephone 20 30 Accommodation 300 350 Transport / Travel /Leisure 200 300 Student Fees (BDE Fee) / Books 10 20 Medical Care / Hygiene / Ins. 100 100 TOTAL 830 1,050 TOTAL For 3.5 Months 3,675 e.g. US Dollars at 1.35 Exchange Rate $4,960.00* e.g. US Dollars at 1.30 Exchange Rate $4,777.50* Page 4
Application Process
Below are the steps a student needs to take in order to plan his or her study abroad experience.
At the initial pre-departure meeting on Tuesday, October 2, you will receive information on all forms and requirements needed to study abroad. Complete the rest of the registration paperwork by November 1 and return it to 105 McConnell Hall: Copy of passport
1. All students seeking admission to EcoGastronomy in France shall complete a Program Enrollment Form. The application deadline is October 2 and acceptance notice is given by October 5. 2. Apply for your passport. If you have a passport, check the expiration date to confirm that it will not expire until 3 months after your return. 3. Complete the Study Away Eligibility form and return the form to the Conduct and Mediation office located in 4 Hitchcock Hall as soon as possible. 4. Complete the Visa Information Form before October 2 and return it to 105 McConnell. You need the letter from this for your Campus France Application (page 6). 5. Fill out the accommodation questionnaire and return it with your program enrollment form. Prior Disciplinary and Criminal Incidents The EGIP adheres to a policy adopted by the Center for International Education that students seeking to study abroad must be free of disciplinary incidents and criminal convictions. Under some circumstances the Academic Standards Committee will grant waivers to students who have successfully fulfilled the terms of disciplinary sanctions imposed by the UNH Judicial Program for isolated misconduct. THE FINAL SEMESTER TUITION BILL WILL BE ISSUED BY THE UNIVERSITY
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Health & Emergency Contact Form Insurance Requirement Form Consent & Agreement Form Itinerary & Flight Information Needs advisor's signature Return Registration Form Study Abroad Planning Form Also needed Copy of your French Visa Attend Mandatory Pre-Departure Orientation Initial pre-departure meeting , October 2, 210
McConnell Hall Second pre-departure meeting, November 29, 2012 , 308 McConnell Hall Center for International Education pre-departure meeting Saturday, December 1 in the MUB. You will receive an invitation for this. Passports Students who do not already possess a valid passport at the time that they apply to the EcoGastronomy in France program are encouraged to apply for passports upon applying and shall apply for a passport immediately upon acceptance to the program, if they have not previously applied. A valid passport must have a date of expiration at least 3 months after the end of the student's proposed stay in the Schengen area
Preparation (Continued) Visas Step by Step Process at: http://www.usa.campusfrance.org/en/page/ applying-a-student-visa-%E2%80%93-step-step
You will be applying for a Long Stay Visa for Students through CampusFrance before your apply for your visa through the French Consulate. Cost: $70 French Consulates in the US http://ambafrance-us.org/spip.php?article330 Consulate General of France in Boston Park Square Building 31 Saint James Avenue, Suite 750 Boston, MA 02116 VISA PROCESS: Students will need their Visa application, photographs, passport, and other documents to apply not earlier than 90 days prior to departure., which in this case is October 15, 2012. Cost: €50 or about $67.50 Housing Burgundy School of Business does not own or manage student accommodation but the International Office can help you look for the best options. First, please take a look at the different kinds of accommodation they usually offer our students. http://www.bsbu.eu/international/ practical-informations/accomodation/ All students are then requested to fill out the accommodation questionnaire . http:// www.bsbu.eu/download/en/ accommodation_questionnaire_2012.pdf The housing questionnaire will be handed in at the October 2 meeting. The International Relations Office will then contact you. Page 6
D i ff e r e n t a c c o m m o d a ti o n p o s s i b i l i ti e s Room in a residence Individual studio flat in a residence A flat to share in a residence Homestay
New International SOS Global Assistance and insurance Program Effective immediately, UNH is providing international travel assistance services, as well as sickness, accident and emergency evacuation insurance to all students, faculty and staff traveling abroad on University-related activities. I encourage you to visit the Center for International Education http://unh.edu/cie/unh_intl_policies/travel-insprogram.html website to review the program and its benefits in detail. Below are some highlights: All UNH students, faculty, scholars, and staff engaged in UNH-related activities outside the United States are eligible for this plan and are automatically covered. Emergency medical, security, legal, and personal services will be provided by International SOS, a premier international services provider. International SOS provides free pre-trip travel, medical and security advice prior to departure through their online portal and toll free alarm center. Emergency sickness and accident medical expenses are covered up to $1,000,000 through University Health Plans (UHP) with no deductible and no exclusions for pre-existing conditions. UHP insures medical evacuations and repatriations and political/natural disaster evacuations organized by International SOS. The insurance covers advanced payment to a hospital if needed to secure admission and provides reunion benefits for a family member or friend to visit a hospitalized UNH-traveler. UNH travelers on university-related activities will be able to purchase the same coverage from UHP and International SOS for accompanying spouses and dependents, leisure travel that may coincide with UNH-related travel, and trip cancellation/trip inter-
ruption insurance. Contact International SOS: 1-215-942-8226, Www.internationalsos.com University of New Hampshire Scholastic Comprehensive Membership 11BCAS000009
Extended Stay Insurance: If you arrives before or stay after the program dates you can purchase extended coverage for $1.18/day. For example, if the program dates are 1/ 14 – 5/31, and your student arrives a week early, you can buy the extended coverage online for the extra week. The EcoGastronomy program will provide the proof of insurance letters needed for students' visa appointments. The Center for International Education (CIE) will cover the details of the international SOS program with you at the study abroad orientation on Saturday, Dec. 1. Studies and Academic Programs E COG 685 This is an administrative course # that enrolls the student in the EcoGastronomy in France program and carries no credit or grade. It satisfies the UNH Discovery World Cultures. Orientation in Dijon (4 days) Melting Pot, Welcome and Activities
culture and wine-making process; visit of monuments linked to the wine culture and Beaune and visit of several estates and vineyards.
o Food and Wine Tourism Deep understanding of the relationship between food, wine, tourism in Burgundy from both a theoretical and practical dimension; understand the key concepts of marketing; and establish the best-practices in wine distribution or in tourism management by visiting two food and wine tourism enterprises
o Entrepreneurship Entrepreneurship module is made up of 3 days of introduction through the MIME© method and group projects. Entrepreneurial thinking, activities, awareness, reflection, and idea creation and building your own business model and implementation. o French as a Foreign Language Basic: Surviving with basic French. Being able to get by in French in every day's life: travelling, accommodation, shopping, students' life… Intermediate: survival French for real life situations. Discussions with the French; Reading little texts, role plays, debates.
You will take a placement exam in Dijon and placed in a French class at your level.
Cultural visits: Day trip to Beaune and the wine area: visit Hospices de Beaune and Château de la Rochepot Day trip to Northern Burgundy: visit Abbaye de Fontenay, Semur en Auxois and Flavigny
o French Art of Living Understand the sociology of food and wine, history of gastronomy; emergence of local food; climates in Burgundy; food and wine pairing; and understand the importance of education in food and wine industry by visiting a culinary institute
o Wine Product and Tasting Analysis of wine representation in literature, poetry, painting and film industry; understand the vitiPage 7
The teaching is provided by the Burgundy School of Business. Faculty and program is accredited by the French Government and EU. Classes are taught to students in English. The Burgundy School of Business will issue an official transcript. The director for the Dual Major in EcoGastronomy will assist in the process of transferring credits. Students are expected to earn between fifteen and twenty credits .
Student Life Information
Burgundy School of Business O n - S i t e O r i e n t a ti o n Your first four days in Dijon, France will be filled with activities designed to help you get acquainted with each other and feel comfortable in your new surroundings. Included in the induction programme: Pick-up at the Train Station Accommodation support Enrolling in your program of study French Language testing Opening a bank account Organized trip to discover the Burgundy Region Evening Social Events Administrative registration Housing Students have a few housing options. Apartments generally have a common kitchen, shared bath, laundry and some are women only. Students will work directly with landlords and the housing officer at Burgundy in arranging housing. Internet is variable in apartments. Computers and Internet Access There are many restaurants and cafés offering free wifi access, including: ESC Dijon campus McDonalds, Rue de la Liberté Subway, opposite train station Quick, train station
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Internet at School: 140 computers equipped with the latest software and 3 easy-access rooms linked to a network are available to students from Monday to Saturday. There are also 60 places where students can link their laptops to the network via Wifi. All students at Burgundy School of Business have free access to the Internet and a personal e-mail account given on their arrival. Cellular Phones All students who do not possess a cell phone that works in France are required to purchase one. There are two different types of cell phones that you can purchase: either a contract phone ("téléphone avec abonnement") or a pre-pay phone ("téléphone avec mobicarte"). Contract phones are only for those students who are staying at least a year. The pre-pay phones are for anyone who is staying any period of time. The price of phones varies between € 20 - 300. In the Dijon area there are three cell phone carriers: The Phone House – any carrier, sometimes speaks English – 94 rue des Godrans FNAC – 24 rue du Bourg Orange – 25 rue de la liberté Bouygues Telecom – 30 Rue Liberté SFR –28-30 rue Musette You can usually buy top-ups at tabacs. Accessing Money While Abroad In general, students made smaller purchases with cash and used a credit card for larger purchases (hotels, clothing, etc.) ATM machines are fairly accessible. Opening a bank account While it is not compulsory, opening a French bank account upon arrival will be more convenient for you. Indeed, some rental contracts will require you to pay through direct debit transfer from a French bank account. Burgundy School of Business has developed specific partnerships with two French banks : BNP Paribas and
Société Générale. During the induction week, English speaking representatives from both institutions will be on our premises in order to help you open a bank account. Furthermore, as a student from Burgundy School of Business, both banks will offer you the possibility to register for housing insurance when opening your bank account. In most cases, housing insurance is compulsory. Academic Advising The Short-term Programs Manager has responsibility for all academic matters. Disciplinary Authority and Process If it is determined that the student has failed to conform to a reasonable standard of conduct, the student will receive notice from the UNH-in-France Program Administration of termination of his/her participation in the program. Packages and Mail French mailboxes are yellow, and sometimes can have 2 sections; one marked Dijon or Côte D'Or and the other, "Other Destinations" (Autres Destinations). Website (in French) http://www.laposte.fr/Particulier C o m m u n i c a ti o n Emergency Communications with Parents Subject to regulations of the United States Secretary of Education (see 34 CFR § 99.36), EcoGastronomy in France staff may, in connection with an emergency, release information contained in educational records to appropriate persons if the knowledge of such information is necessary to protect the health or safety of the student or other persons. Communications with Participants and EcoGastronomy in France Staff The EcoGastronomy in France will work to maintain continuous and open communications between UNH administrators and the Burgundy School of Business staff. Students shall address their concerns and questions to the Burgundy School of Business staff in the Page 9
first instance, and may contact EcoGastronomy staff at UNH. Students shall provide the administrators with a current e-mail address.
Health and Medical Costs Make sure that your policy is valid outside the U.S. and that you understand its terms and benefits. Most policies require you to pay for medical care at the time of service and then file for reimbursement from your American Insurance company. Non European students:
Under the French National Health System (Sécurité Sociale), you are required to pay for visits to the doctor and the subsequent medicines prescribed which are then refunded later on. The amount refunded varies considerably (from 70 % for a visit to a General Practitioner to 35 % for certain medicines). Students staying in France more than 3 months and if you are UNDER 28 years old : Even if you have private health insurance, are required to apply for French health Insurance either at the LMDE or the SMEREB (student health insurance company). It costs around EUR 200 to register. Once registered, they will receive a social security number for medical appointments or treatment. The application form is provided on their arrival by the International office of Burgundy School of Business.
EMERGENCY SERVICES Hôpital : SAMU/Ambulance 15 (no charge) Pompiers (Fire Brigade) 18 (no charge) Police 17 (no charge) Centre Anti - Poisons (Poison center) 04.72.11.69.11 MEDICAL INFORMATION PHYSICIANS (English speaking) Dr ROUGEOT, 3 place Saint Bernard 03.80.30.72.89 21000 DIJON Cabinet médical Clémenceau, 38 rue Louis Blanc 03 80 28 96 72 21000 DIJON
Health and Medical Costs SOS médecins SOS 21 03.80.59.80.80 03.80.78.68.68 24 hours a day, seven days a week 24 hours a day, seven days a week DENTISTS (English speaking) Dr. VINCENOT 4 avenue de la 1ère Armée française 03.80.30.18.18 21000 DIJON Dr. Alex AKNIN 18 avenue de la 1ère Armée française 03.80.50.12.77 21000 DIJON PSYCHOLOGIST- COUNCELLOR Mrs Odile FORGUES 10 quai Nicolas Rolin 03.80.59.15.30 21000 DIJON CHEMIST / PHARMACY Most medicines are only available by prescription. The chemist will ask you for the doctor's prescription: "ordonnance". Chemists are usually open from 9.00 am to 7.00pm and sometimes close between 12 and 2pm. 8 Pharmacie des Godrans (English Speaking) 34 rue Godrans 21000 DIJON 03.80.30.16.49 HOSPITAL Centre Hospitalier Universitaire (CHU) 2 rue Maréchal de Lattre de Tassigny 03.80.29.30.31 www.chu-dijon.fr Emergencies (ER) or Urgences are located at Le Complexe du Bocage of the hospital: Arrival to ER by public transport: Bus from city centre: Take line 3, direction Epirey Cap-Nord Change at the stop Grésilles, onto bus line 17, direction Quetigny, getting off at stops CHU or Maternité. This takes you to the hospital site. The map on the Page 10
following page indicates the main entrance. Alternatively: Take bus lines 1, direction Quétigny Europe or Chevigny, or line 3, direction Epirey Cap-Nord. Change to bus line 16, direction Neuilly. This can be done at stops Théâtre Vaillant, St. Michel, Buffon, Saumaise OR Lycée H. Fountaine. Get off at stops CHU or Maternité. This takes you to the hospital site. The map on the following page indicates the main entrance. A bus line map can be found at: http:// www.divia.fr/277-Cartographie-interactive-dureseau.html
Courtesy, Discipline, Health and Safety Free Time – France, Europe and Beyond Joint Obligation for Safety A significant benefit of study abroad programs is the chance to "see the world." Each year thousands of students from many countries participate in the excitement of "discovering" places and experiences new to them. The EcoGastronomy in France is designed and intended to promote students' exploration of France and Europe. Except as provided in the section below, students shall be allowed free choice in their choice of destination, modes of transportation, style and manner of travel and companions. As a consequence and in consideration of this broad freedom, the EcoGastronomy in France cannot and does not assume any liability for loss, casualty, injury, death or any other ill that may befall its students while traveling on their own free time. EcoGastronomy in France requires students to participate in travel safety training and orientations. Extended Stays in France and Europe EcoGastronomy in France students may elect to travel in Europe before the beginning of the program or
after its conclusion. The program shall not be liable for housing, food, transportation or other costs associated with such travel. U.S. Department Travel Warning List EcoGastronomy in France students shall not travel to countries or cities listed on the U.S. Department's "Travel Warning List." "Travel Warnings are issued to describe long-term, protracted conditions that make a country dangerous or unstable. A Travel Warning is also issued when the U.S. Government's ability to assist American citizens is constrained due to the closure of an embassy or consulate or because of a drawdown of its staff." Check out http://travel.state.gov/ for current travel warnings. Early Termination No Partial Academic Credit Students dismissed or suspended from the EcoGastronomy in France program before the completion of the program shall not be entitled to partial academic credit without approval of the Academic Standards and Advising Committee. Refunds Students must withdraw prior to the starting date of the program to qualify for a refund. No refund will be granted once the program has commenced. Students dismissed from the EGIP before the completion of the program shall not be entitled to full or partial refunds of tuition, fees or other costs charged by the University or the Program. At their sole discretion, the director may award partial refunds to students terminating their participation in the program for medical reasons or under seriously extenuating circumstances. Courtesy, Discipline, Health and Safety Please refer to http://www.unh.edu/cie/ Page 11
studyabroad/travel.html#anchor_health UNH Study Abroad Safely An Orientation on Cultural Differences You may enjoy reading this Lonely Planet blog on the 25 Major Cultural Differences Between France and America Read more: http://www.lonelyplanet.com/ travelblogs/982/119868/25+Major+Cultural+Differe nces+Between+France+and+America? destId=359219#ixzz1rqdLmfhn
Departure On-Campus Housing Before departing for France students shall obtain and execute the required forms to reserve oncampus housing for the spring semester following their return to Durham. Once Back Home Study Abroad Report Study Abroad reports are an invaluable resource for prospective students. They provide an honest and first hand impression of the program in which you participated. This report will become part of your EcoG Portfolio. Reports should be 800 to 1,200 words in length and should be carefully written or typed and submitted via email to the EcoG Director within 30 days of your return to UNH. These reports are available to anyone interested in reading them. Debrief Meeting and Evaluation of the Program An evaluation form will be sent to you at the end of your study abroad stay. It is essential that you fill out the form. The evaluation is your chance to have a critical role in improving the EcoGastronomy in France program.
Student Emergency Operations Plan 2013 EcoGastronomy in France Program Students Call in Order Listed Ecole Supérieure de Commerce Contacts 1. Nathalie Cureau, Short-term Programs Manager, International Relations, 29, rue Sambin 21000 Dijon FRANCE, +33 380 725 979 , firstname.lastname@example.com 24 Hour Emergency only: +33 6 43 25 76 70
2. Marie-José Albert-Batt, Associate Dean for International Relations, International Relations, 29, rue Sambin 21000 Dijon FRANCE Emergency only: +336 32 38 92 94
UNH Contacts 3. Center for International Education: 001 603 862-2398 Mon-Fri 8:00am - 4:30 pm E.S.T. 00-1-603 312-3502 24 hours EMERGENCY ONLY
EcoGastronomy Contact: 4. Daniel Winans, EcoGastronomy Director Office: 00-1- 603-862-3327 Cell: 00-1-603-834-5523
International SOS: UNH has partnered with International SOS, the world's leader in international healthcare, medical assistance, and security services. The services provided by International SOS range from simple telephone advice, referrals to vetted providers to full-scale medical and security evacuations. The International SOS network of multilingual specialists operates 24 hours a day, 365 days a year from 26 Alarm Centers around the world. Call 1-215-942-8226 collect or go to their www.internationalsos.com. Use the following code for UNH University of New Hampshire , Scholastic Comprehensive Membership , 11BCAS000009 U.S. Citizen's Emergency Center: The US Department of State has a hot line number citizens may call to obtain information on any area of the world. Call (202)647-5225 or log on to http://travel.state.gov/travel_warnings.html. The Center for Disease Control has a site for traveler's health information http://www.cdc.gov/travel.html Hôpital : SAMU/Ambulance 15 (no charge) Pompiers (Fire Brigade) 18 (no charge) Police 17 (no charge) Centre Anti - Poisons (Poison center) 04.72.11.69.11 U.S. Embassy in Paris [33] (1)43122222 What Constitutes an Emergency? Are you in imminent danger? By determining this first, you can then methodically assess your options for help. Emergencies such as medical issues (i.e., appendicitis, broken bones), assault, arrest or suicidal thoughts are all cases for activating the 24/7 emergency system immediately.
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Guide for students studying in Dijon, France with the EcoGastronomy program at UNH