Value for money and online availability were the most popular motivators for NPS* use
Mean scores. Users asked to rank motivators from completely disagree (1) to totally agree (10)
2016 survey
2015 survey
Value for money
Able to buy online
Unavailability of other drugs
Able to buy from a shop
Believe they are legal
Prefer effects to illegal drugs
Better than illegal drugs
Unlikely to be detected by drug screening
Poor quality of other drugs
Unlikely to be detected by sniffer dogs
Safer than illegal drugs
Don't know how to get illegal drugs
0
1
2
3
4
5