LONDON, United Kingdom – November 2016: Based on statistics that were gathered by the National Drug Treatment Monitoring System (NDTMS) between 1st April 2015 and 31st March 2016, Public Health England has released a report presenting information on individuals receiving treatment for drug and/or alcohol use.

Of the 288,843 people (aged 18 and over) that were in contact with drug and alcohol services over this period, the majority had problems with opiate or alcohol use, while 2,042 people had problems with new psychoactive substances (NPS) use which signifies a 77 per cent increase from the previous year when 1,154 people were reported to have problems with NPS use. Among people citing problems with NPS use, 50 per cent reported of housing problems at the point of commencing treatment and 41 per cent had been referred to community treatment from prison or probation.

Figure 1: Trends in the number of new registrants to treatment citing club drug use

Source: Public Health England, adult substance misuse statistics from the National Drug Treatment Monitoring System (NDTMS).

For more information, please see:

Public Health England report – Adult substance misuse statistics from the National Drug Treatment Monitoring System (NDTMS)
December 2015 – United Kingdom: Treatment demand for NPS doubles and strong increase of mephedrone treatment reported in England