On Wednesday 8 March, International Women’s Day 2023, the Women’s Treatment Group hosted a webinar exploring good practice when working with women in drug and alcohol treatment services.
Integrated Care Systems now exist in law. But what does that mean for drug and alcohol treatment and recovery services, the public health commissioners in local government who fund them or the people who they support?
A particularly concerning trend has been flying under the radar for several years now – an increasing number of deaths from drug poisonings involve benzodiazepines, pregabalin, gabapentin or zopiclone.
“What could the system do better?”
“Listen to us. Believe us.”
Recent years have seen government policy increasingly focussed on pathways from the criminal justice system into treatment for people experiencing drug or alcohol problems.
Dame Carol Black has called for a whole-system approach to drug harms.
Within a treatment system that has faced significant cuts to funding in recent years, detox and rehab services have fared particularly badly.
In October the Office for National Statistics published the latest statistics for drug-related deaths in 2019, showing – yet again – a record year in almost a decade of increasing deaths and an appalling picture of human loss and suffering.
Collective Voice is the national charity working to improve England’s drug and alcohol treatment and recovery systems
