Drug Users None The Wiser

A report by Freedom to Punish suggests that drug use In Scotland has fallen by 6% while rising by 18%.

The number of users of heroin has fallen by 2% but the number of cocaine users has risen by 4% among 22% of those in the 18-25 year old age range.

40% of the 22% of new non-cocaine users reported that their drug of choice had changed from an average of 60% heroin per calender week to 41% mephodrone and 12% DMT. Almost 10 % of respondents in a poll of 500 drug users reported that their daily expenditure on drugs was between 10% and 12.5% higher than the national average - a figures estimated to be between 60-70% of the voting age population.

In the past year, a total of 15, 303 new clients were assessed as to their suitability to be included in national averages of Class A drug use dependencies (based on the EU GDU Statistical Line).

Of those, 22% claimed to be among the 48% of unincluded respondents who abstained from the concept of demographic-led percentages.

Brendan Parker of FreedomTo Punish said "These figures clearly show that more than 75% of news stories are being written by a small percentage of journalists whose agenda is broader then the majority of right-thinking people and whose journalistic style resembles that of a hopeless algebra victim. All the anecdotal evidence clearly shows that something needs to be done."