Drug & alcohol misuse and treatment in prisons
This is the latest post in a monthly series reproducing Andrew Brown’s monthly slideshare of interesting new facts about alcohol and other drugs which he has unearthed from a wide range of reports.
Andrew works for MEAM/Making Every Adult Matter, the coalition of three national charities (Clinks, Homeless Link and Mind) who champion the cause of people experiencing multiple needs and who have been kind enough to allow Andrew’s monthly slideshares to be re-published here.
This month’s slides focus particularly on statistics about drug and alcohol use in secure settings.
Here are some of the things I learnt from Andrew’s round-up this month:
- A staggering 60,254 adults were in contact with drug and alcohol treatment services in secure settings in 2015/16 (slide 2)
- 27 people were murdered on licensed premises in 2015/16 (slide 11)
- In 2015 there was an estimated 294,000 years of life lost due to alcohol-related conditions in England (slide 15)
- Sale of illicit beer is estimated to have cost the exchequer £950 million in 2014/15 (slide 24)
You can follow Andrew on Twitter @andrewbrown365
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