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Statistics from the Regional Drug Misuse Databases on drug misusers in treatment in England, 2000/01
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Last modified date:8 February 2007
This bulletin summarises information on the number of problem drug misusers reported to Regional Drug Misuse Databases by drug treatment agencies and General Practitioners as being in treatment in England in 2000/01. It includes analyses by Health Authority of treatment and Drug Action Team area of treatment.
The results show that, in England, during the year 2000/01:
- The number of users reported as being in treatment with drug misuse agencies and GPs was around 118,500.
- About one-third (32%) of users in treatment were under 25.
- The great majority of users reported as being in treatment (87%) were attending community specialist services (taken to include community based drugs services, hospital out-patients and drug dependency unit out-patients).
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