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Scottish Schools Adolescent Lifestyle and Substance Use Survey (SALSUS): drug use report 2018
Findings on drug use from the 2018 wave of the Scottish Schools Adolescent Lifestyle and Substance Use Survey (SALSUS).
Appendix C: Drugs categorised as NPS
The drugs that were included in the NPS analysis are listed below. This includes some substances which used to be described as 'legal highs' but which are now controlled, following the Psychoactive Substances Act 2016, which brought these substances under the control of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971:
- Synthetic cannabis
- 'MDAI, 6-APB (Benzo Fury), methylone (or other synthetic empathogen)'
- 'MXE, MXP (or other synthetic dissociative)'
- 'Ethylphenidate, MPA or branded packets such as Ching, Snow White, Blue stuff, Pink Panthers (or other synthetic stimulant)'
- 'AMT, NBOMe, 2Cs (or other synthetic psychedelic)'
- Salvia.
Contact
Email: salsus@gov.scot
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