Alcohol/Drugs/Gambling
Prison drug treatment trends 2024
There was a welcome 8% increase in the number of people starting drug/alcohol treatment in prison last year.
29th January 2024
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There was a welcome 8% increase in the number of people starting drug/alcohol treatment in prison last year.
Getting prison drug treatment remains a very variable experience.
The proportion of people starting treatment in prison for opiates, crack or both keeps falling.
Dame Carol Black’s Review of Drugs looks at recent increases in the number of people using crack cocaine.
New research finds that although heroin users run a number of specific health risks, they mainly die because of common long-term conditions.
2016/17 treatment figures show surprising fall in number of alcohol users seeking help and no progress in tackling drug-related deaths.
European Drug Report puts the UK in a European context, highlights our high levels of heroin, cocaine & MDMA use and our troubling drug-induced mortality rate.
Invaluable DrugWise report on most recent trends in drug use and dealing in the UK at the end of 2016. Unprecedented purity levels & the fallout from ban on NPS
This report vindicates the importance of the ACMD; the advisory group took its own decision to produce a report on this key, and increasingly worrying issue (that is to say, it was not asked by government to produce it) and has been prepared to emphasise that funding sufficient good quality treatment is the only way to stop an increasing number of individuals dying from their heroin (and other opioid) use.
The Office for National Statistics has released the very depressing figure for the number of drug-related deaths registered in 2015 – the highest ever recorded.
EMCDDA Drug Report for 2016 finds growing concern about the use of synthetic opioids.
Second in a series of posts on the EMCDDA Drug report 2016 looks at changes in drug markets and drug supply.
