Scottish Schools Adolescent Lifestyle and Substance Use Survey (SALSUS): drug use report 2018

Footnotes

1. The overall response rate excludes schools who took part in the Realigning Children's Services Survey and Glasgow state schools. For more details please see the SALSUS 2018 Technical Report.

2. Scottish Government and COSLA (2018) Public Health Priorities for Scotland https://www.gov.scot/publications/scotlands-public-health-priorities/

3. Scottish Government (2018) Rights, Respect and Recovery: Drug and Alcohol Treatment Strategy https://www.gov.scot/publications/rights-respect-recovery/

4. Scottish Government (2019) Scotland's Curriculum For Excellence: Putting learners at the heart of education https://scotlandscurriculum.scot/

5. The SALSUS 2018 Technical Report can be found at: http://www.gov.scot/ISBN/9781839603327

6. The SALSUS 2018 Questionnaire can be found at: http://www.gov.scot/ISBN/9781839603327

7. The survey did not attempt to capture any longer-term negative effects.

8. Although the term 'legal highs' was used in the questionnaire, these are now referred to as Novel Psychoactive Substances (NPS).

9. The terminology used to describe SDQ scores is borrowed from the original SDQ questionnaire designed by Robert Goodman. While the terms 'normal', 'borderline' and 'abnormal' may seem outdated in the context of the language used to describe mental wellbeing today, they have been retained in this report to draw comparisons to previous years.

10. For full details of how area deprivation is calculated and its limitations please see the SALSUS 2018 Technical Report.