Adult Substance Misuse Statistics from the National Drug Treatment Monitoring System (NDTMS)

This report brings together information on people receiving specialist interventions for drug problems and for problem drinking in England, other than patients receiving this treatment in prison.

Analysed textually and pictorially through 20 charts, the performance of England’s drug and alcohol treatment system up to 2015/16 - the ageing caseload, the puzzle of waning success with opiate users but increasing with drinkers, the dramatic fall in new young opiate use patients, and how deeply treatment has penetrated the population of dependent opiate users and drinkers. Read more...