Health written question – answered am ar 9 Gorffennaf 2009.
James Brokenshire
Shadow Minister (Home Affairs)
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people were discharged from treatment for drug misuse in the categories of (a) treatment completed drug free, (b) treatment completed not drug free, (c) dropped out, (d) referred to other treatment, (e) individual entered prison, (f) individual died and (g) reason not known in each year from 2003-04 to 2007-08.
Gillian Merron
Minister of State (Public Health), Department of Health
The National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse's National Drug Treatment Monitoring System collects discharge information and the numbers recorded for the discharge codes requested for the period 2004-05 to 2007-08 are as follows:
| 2004-05 | 2005-06 | 2006-07 | 2007-08 | |
| Treatment completed drug free | 3,632 | 4,559 | 5,829 | 7,324 |
| Treatment completed | 7,656 | 10,662 | 13,022 | 17,306 |
| Referred on | 4,516 | 6,348 | 8,662 | 10,811 |
| Dropped out/left | 23,955 | 26,136 | 23,646 | 19,591 |
| Prison | 2,441 | 3,486 | 4,069 | 4,240 |
| Died | 602 | 514 | 633 | 784 |
| Other | 4,383 | 2,376 | 1,556 | 520 |
| Retained in treatment | 104,900 | 113,521 | 129,341 | 133,024 |
| Note: Data collected for 2003-04 were not robust enough to provide figures for that year. | ||||
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