Roy Robertson (James R. Robertson) is Professor of Addiction Medicine at the University of Edinburgh Usher Institute and was a General Practitioner in NW Edinburgh for 40 years. He was a Member of the Home Office, ACMD, for 10 years, Chair of their Shipman Inquiry committee and a member of several Scottish drug advisory committees. He has had a special interest in the politics and harms of HIV/AIDS and injection drug use.

• 1 Introduction 2 Hepatitis in injecting drug users 3 Human Immunodeficiency Virus – Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome 4 Drug-related deaths and injecting drug use 5 Physical impact of injecting drug use beyond infectious diseases 6 The increasing importance of harm reduction 7 Anthrax, Clostridium and other infections 8 The cases: Case studies and people in a changing landscape 9 Treatment including opiate agonist therapy 10 International comparisons 11 Social determinants of drug taking: Edinburgh as case study 12 Social and environmental impact resulting from injecting drug use 13 Political and commercial determinants of health: Edinburgh as a case study 14 Research and education

Roy Robertson (James R. Robertson) is Professor of Addiction Medicine at the University of Edinburgh Usher Institute and was a General Practitioner in NW Edinburgh for 40 years. He was a Member of the Home Office, ACMD, for 10 years, Chair of their Shipman Inquiry committee and a member of several Scottish drug advisory committees. He has had a special interest in the politics and harms of HIV/AIDS and injection drug use.

• 1 Introduction 2 Hepatitis in injecting drug users 3 Human Immunodeficiency Virus – Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome 4 Drug-related deaths and injecting drug use 5 Physical impact of injecting drug use beyond infectious diseases 6 The increasing importance of harm reduction 7 Anthrax, Clostridium and other infections 8 The cases: Case studies and people in a changing landscape 9 Treatment including opiate agonist therapy 10 International comparisons 11 Social determinants of drug taking: Edinburgh as case study 12 Social and environmental impact resulting from injecting drug use 13 Political and commercial determinants of health: Edinburgh as a case study 14 Research and education

Roy Robertson (James R. Robertson) is Professor of Addiction Medicine at the University of Edinburgh Usher Institute and was a General Practitioner in NW Edinburgh for 40 years. He was a Member of the Home Office, ACMD, for 10 years, Chair of their Shipman Inquiry committee and a member of several Scottish drug advisory committees. He has had a special interest in the politics and harms of HIV/AIDS and injection drug use.

• 1 Introduction 2 Hepatitis in injecting drug users 3 Human Immunodeficiency Virus – Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome 4 Drug-related deaths and injecting drug use 5 Physical impact of injecting drug use beyond infectious diseases 6 The increasing importance of harm reduction 7 Anthrax, Clostridium and other infections 8 The cases: Case studies and people in a changing landscape 9 Treatment including opiate agonist therapy 10 International comparisons 11 Social determinants of drug taking: Edinburgh as case study 12 Social and environmental impact resulting from injecting drug use 13 Political and commercial determinants of health: Edinburgh as a case study 14 Research and education