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UK: Use of drug misuse services in England: 1 October 2000 to
PR Newswire
Thursday 28 Feb 2002 Figures on problem drug misuse in England are published today in the Statistical bulletin Statistics from the Regional Drug Misuse Databases, which covers the six month period ending 31 March 2001. The main findings for the six months ending 31 March 2001 were as follows: - About 33,200 users were reported as presenting to drug misuse agencies; this is a marginal increase of (0.4%) from the previous six month period (33,100). - Half (50%) of those users presenting were in their twenties and around one in seven (13%) were aged under 20, as in previous periods. - The ratio of males to females (3:1) was also the same as in previous periods. - Heroin was still the most frequently reported main drug of use, accounting for two thirds of users (67%). The next most frequently reported main drugs of misuse were cannabis (9%), methadone (8%), cocaine (7%) and amphetamines (3%). Produced by the Government Statistical Service. Notes to Editors: 1. Copies of the Bulletin, Statistics from the Regional Drug Misuse Databases, are available from: Department of Health, PO Box 777 London SE1 6XH. http://www.doh.gov.uk/public/stats1.htm 2. The bulletin contains information on misusers attending services for problem drug use. The series covers drug misusers attending for the first time or after an absence of six months or more; people in regular contact with such services are not included on the database. It is not a measure of prevalence. Not all known drug misusers are included as data from some types of agency (street outreach work, needle exchange schemes, social services) have been excluded in order to obtain a nationally consistent database. 3. A "census" was carried out in 2000/2001 to estimate the number of drug misusers in treatment in England in 2000/01. A statistical bulletin "Statistics from the Regional Drug Misuse Databases on drug misusers in treatment in England, 2000/01" was published in December 2001. http://www.doh.gov.uk/public/sb0133.htm 4. The bulletin is the final one in the series; in future, information will be provided from the National Drug Treatment Monitoring System (NDTMS). The NDTMS replaced the RDMDs from 1 April 2001 and will provide better information for monitoring treatment for the Government's 10-year strategy for tackling drug misuse.
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