Rapid Action Drug Alerts and Response quarterly ​report

July 2024

The objective of this report is to monitor drug-related harms, service usage and toxicology data, in order to provide an early warning of emerging drug trends and identify actions to reduce and prevent drug harms and deaths. RADAR's emphasis is on reporting drug-related information as rapidly as possible, for the purpose of public health surveillance. Their latest report talks about drug-related harms remained high in Scotland, with new synthetic drugs (nitazenes and xylazine) playing an increasing role - an alert for xylazine was published in May.

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