AAT | Alcohol Action Team |
ACMD | Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs |
AIDS | Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome |
ASH | Action on Smoking and Health |
BBV | Blood Borne Virus |
CAHRU | Child and Adolescent Health Research
Unit |
CCTV | Closed Circuit Television |
CD | Controlled Drugs |
CDPS | Community Drug Problem Service |
CHD | Coronary Heart Disease |
CHP | Community Health Partnership |
CNS | Central Nervous System |
CRAG | Clinical Resources and Audit Group |
DAAT | Drug and Alcohol Action Team, often commonly
referred to as Drug Action Teams (
DATs), Alcohol and Drug
Action Teams (
ADATs) and Substance Action
Teams (
SATs). |
DTTO | Drug Treatment and Testing Orders |
EHC | Emergency Hormonal Contraception |
EIU | Effective Interventions Unit,
SEHD. |
GDPS | Glasgow Drug Problem Service |
HAT | Homeless Addiction Team |
HIV | Human Immunodeficiency Virus |
KTS | Know The Score |
MAP | Methadone Activities Programme |
NES | NHS Education for
Scotland |
NPA | National Pharmaceutical Association |
NPF | National Pharmaceutical Forum |
NRT | Nicotine Replacement Therapy |
OTC | Over the Counter (Medicines) |
PGD | Patient Group Direction |
RSI | Rough Sleepers Initiative |
SALSUS | Schools Adolescent Lifestyle and Substance
Use Survey |
SCPPE | Scottish Centre for Post Qualification
Pharmaceutical Education |
SDF | Scottish Drugs Forum |
SDMD | Scottish Drugs Misuse Database |
SEHD | Scottish Executive Health Department |
SNAP | Scottish Needs Assessment Programme |
SNEW | Scottish Needle Exchange Workers' Forum |
SOPs | Standard Operating Procedures |
SPiSM | Specialist Pharmacist in Substance
Misuse |
SPS | Scottish Prison Service |
SSiPPHs | Scottish Specialists in Pharmaceutical
Public Health |
STRADA | Scottish Training on Drugs and Alcohol |
Street Worker | An individual whose profession is
street-based prostitution |
TDM | Therapeutic Drug Monitoring |
TDPS | Tayside Drug Problem Service |
VSA | Volatile Substance Abuse |