- Implement education strategies and initiatives and provide public information which increase knowledge and promote avoidance of drug misuse.

- Reduce the acceptability and incidence of drugs misuse among children and young people.

- Ensure that every school pupil in Scotland has effective drug education including accurate and

up-to-date information on the consequences of drug misuse.

- Reduce the harm arising from drug misuse and in particular by encouraging positive alternative lifestyles.

- Increase access to information and services for vulnerable groups _ including school excludees, truants, looked after children, young offenders, young homeless, very young children at risk of drug misuse and children of drug misusing parents.

• Develop a co-ordinated approach, involving local authorities, health boards, DATs and AMCCs, parents, community and young people themselves.
• Every school to provide appropriate drug education for all pupils in line with national and education authority advice.*
• Every school and community education provider to have an effective welfare policy on the management of incidents of drug misuse.*
• Effective training of teachers and other professionals working with young people.
• Further develop drug education using the mass media and in a range of settings including schools, the community and voluntary sector.
• Ensure that health education has a secure place in all educational establishments and in revised advice

• on the curriculum and reflects good topical evidence of the most effective approaches.
• Support the more general development of health promoting institutions, settings and sectors.
• Promote the availability of attractive alternatives to drug misuse.
• Support for children and young people in vulnerable situations, which includes assessment of the needs
• of children of drug misusing families, and ensuring that - where needed - services are provided to safeguard their welfare.
• The implementation of the recommendations to be made by the Schools Drug Safety Team will be a key step.

- Reduce the level of drug misuse in prisons.

- Develop constructive alternatives to prosecution and imprisonment for offences related to drug misuse problems.

- Support partnerships between professionals, local people and businesses in the development of local initiatives for tackling drug misuse.

- Promote drug awareness and the development of drug policies and health promotion within the workplace.

- Ensure that drug misuse is addressed within the wider context of area regeneration and social inclusion.

• Ensure cohesion between community planning, community safety partnerships, community care plans, children's service plans and input from Drug Action Teams.
• Increase the detection of drug related crime and refer offenders to specialist agencies (piloting of Drug Treatment and Testing Orders).
• Maximise community and multi-agency partnerships to highlight and tackle localised problems: identify drug dealers and take action to disrupt their activities and reduce the threat to communities.
• Continue development of alternatives to custody through measures _ like Drug Treatment and Testing Orders _ which provide access to assessment, information, and appropriate treatment programmes to stabilise drug use and reduce offending behaviour.
• Develop liaison and joint working between the prisons and community based services to ensure appropriate throughcare and integration of services for prisoners with drug related problems and their families.
• Enhance the detection of drivers under the influence of drugs, and underline the social unacceptability of such behaviour.

• Obtain clearer information about the link between drug use and crime and about the effectiveness of different enforcement strategies.

- Increase the number of drug misusers becoming and remaining drug free, and promote their inclusion in society.

- Reduce the incidence of injecting, sharing and polydrug misuse among drug misusers.

- Reduce the number of drug related deaths.

- Increase the proportion of drug misusers in contact with services, including those in prison, through the development of good, accessible, responsive and effective services.

- Reduce the numbers of drug misusers who have no quick access to appropriate treatment.

• Provide effective shared care arrangements and integrated drug misuse services, to include substitute prescribing of oral methadone, with proper project management linking together a comprehensive range of services and taking into account the views of users.
• Improve the range and quality of drug services for young people, particularly under 16s, and including, where appropriate, integrated services to assist early intervention with young misusers, particularly those with serious and sustained drug misuse problems.
• Support problem drug misusers in reviewing and changing their behaviour towards more positive lifestyles _ linking them to appropriate accommodation, education and employment services.
• Provide a range of services to meet the assessed needs of drug misusers and their families, including improved and appropriately targeted services for women.
• Extend and develop detached and outreach work to help services make contact with people at an early stage in their drug misuse, taking account of young peoples' views, and improve prevention work aimed at vulnerable young people.
• Consider measures in place locally to prevent the spread of hepatitis C among drug injectors and prepare an agreed action plan embracing prevention, education and treatment, with the provision of needle exchanges and appropriately targeted information a central feature. Maintain efforts to contain the spread of HIV and hepatitis B viruses.
• Provide appropriate treatment for substance misuse withdrawal to all dependent drug misusers on their admission to hospital as an in-patient or when detained in prison (including treatment of withdrawal symptoms to improve retention in treatment programmes).
• Improve services to people with dual diagnosis of substance misuse and mental health problems, including an integrated psychiatric service for patients at serious risk of chronic self harm who also have a co-existing drug problem.

• Ensure that throughcare and aftercare arrangements for drug misusing prisoners are coherent, focused and tied in with community provision.

- Enforcement agencies to continue to identify, investigate and obtain evidence for the prosecution of persons engaged in drug trafficking and supply.

- Reduce the amount of drugs entering Scotland by targeting distribution networks and dismantling organised trafficking.

- Support constructive community involvement in reducing the availability of drugs locally.

- Reduce the availability of drugs in prisons.

• Reduce the growth, manufacture, importation and distribution of drugs for illicit use in Scotland, supporting international efforts to stem the flow of drugs into the UK.
• Reduce availability of drugs in the community, through enforcement activity to disrupt and arrest those involved in their supply and trafficking.
• Create an environment for communities to confidently and safely identify to the police those involved in the supply of illegal drugs.
• Ensure information and best practice are shared between intelligence and law enforcement agencies.
• Maximise the confiscation of assets associated with drug dealing activity.

• Develop arrest referral and drug diversion schemes.