Table 2 Characteristics of people using city centre IEP outlets during 2015 who reported injecting heroin and/or cocaine
All clients (%) | ‘Regular clients’ ≥5 transactions (%) | ‘High frequency clients’ ≥50 transactions (%) | Clients receiving IEP via Assertive Outreacha (%) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Agegroupb | ||||
< 20 years | 10 (0.3) | 2 (0.2) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) |
20–29 years | 318 (9.6) | 87 (8.5) | 21 (14.9) | 43 (14.5) |
30–39 years | 1423 (42.9) | 444 (43.3) | 54 (38.3) | 132 (44.4) |
40–49 years | 1297 (39.1) | 394 (38.4) | 54 (38.3) | 104 (35.0) |
≥ 50 years | 272 (8.2) | 98 (9.6) | 12 (8.5) | 18 (6.1) |
Gender | ||||
Male | 2702 (81.4) | 850 (82.9) | 118 (83.7) | 244 (82.2) |
Female | 618 (18.6) | 175 (17.1) | 23 (16.3) | 53 (17.8) |
Ethnicity | ||||
Scottish | 3075 (92.6) | 956 (93.3) | 133 (94.3) | 277 (93.9) |
Other white ethnic groupc | 181 (5.5) | 48 (4.7) | 7 (5.0) | 14 (4.7) |
Other ethnic groupd | 41 (1.2) | 14 (1.4) | 1 (0.7) | 1 (0.3) |
Unknown | 23 (0.7) | 7 (0.7) | 0 (0.0) | 3 (1.0) |
Last recorded housing statuse | ||||
Owner or renting | 2448 (73.7) | 697 (68.0) | 79 (56.0) | 121 (40.7) |
Homeless | 755 (22.7) | 276 (26.9) | 46 (32.6) | 127 (42.8) |
Roofless | 114 (3.4) | 52 (5.1) | 16 (11.3) | 46 (15.5) |
Unknown | 3 (0.1) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 3 (1.0) |
Primary drugs of injectionf | ||||
Heroin only | 2682 (86.6) | 826 (80.6) | 113 (80.1) | 237 (79.8) |
Both heroin & cocaine | 228 (6.9) | 127 (12.4) | 24 (17.0) | 36 (12.1) |
Cocaine only | 187 (5.6) | 34 (3.3) | 1 (0.7) | 3 (1.0) |
Incomplete/unknowng | 223 (6.7) | 38 (3.7) | 3 (2.1) | 24 (8.1) |
Last recorded treatment statush | ||||
In structured treatment | 538 (16.2) | 219 (22.9) | 44 (32.4) | 109 (36.7) |
Not in structured treatment | 716 (21.6) | 308 (32.3) | 50 (36.8) | 133 (44.8) |
Prefer not to say | 1670 (50.3) | 431 (45.0) | 42 (30.9) | 50 (16.8) |
No answer | 396 (11.9) | 67 (7.0) | 5 (3.7) | 5 (1.7) |
Total | 3320 | 1025 | 141 | 297 |