The government published new guidance for local delivery partners to drive the national Drugs Strategy “From Harm to Hope“. The guidance includes the headline metrics for a new National Outcomes
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Our new three-year strategy
We are proud and excited to today launch our new three-year strategy. These years may prove to be a transformational time for the drug and alcohol treatment and recovery field.
Drug Related Deaths Summit: Urgent and united action needed to curb rising drug related death toll
Third sector and NHS healthcare experts to unite at historic summit and pledge to deal with the escalating drug related death crisis. A public health emergency has been steadily building
Drug related deaths are at a record high – we must now take collective action
A public health emergency is occurring in England – each year thousands of people are dying from drug related causes. Stigma, discrimination, disinvestment and the erosion of wider support systems
New statistics on drug and alcohol treatment in prisons and for young people
The Office for Health Improvement and Disparities today published 2020/21 statistics for substance misuse treatment in secure settings, and for young people. Both datasets continue a trend of declining numbers
Collective Voice hosts webinar with lived experience experts
“What could the system do better? Listen to us. Believe us.” Our latest webinar held on 13 December 2021 hosted a panel of experts to discuss the question: How can
Commissioners’ Group publishes annual report
The English Substance Use Commissioners’ Group was set up in 2020 as a strategic and supportiveforum to bring together those with commissioning responsibility for substance use services, forimproved population and
Latest alcohol deaths figures show steep rise
The statistics on alcohol-specific deaths in the UK in 2020 show a shocking 19% increase in mortality from 2019, the biggest year-on-year rise since 2001. Almost 9,000 people died from
A joint response to the new Drugs Strategy
Today’s announcement shows the Government is serious about righting the wrong of nearly a decade of disinvestment in England’s drug treatment system. We are proud to have worked together to
If not now, when?
A new drugs strategy offers the chance for the Government to right the wrongs of disinvestment by funding Dame Carol Black’s rigorous, costed policy programme. The necessary resource must be
