Video: Annette Dale-Perera on the major achievements of the drugs field

Footnotes

1) NTA: Annual Report 2007/8

NTA Website PDF

NTA: Annual Report 2007/8

2) Report: EMCDDA Annual Report

The state of the drugs problem in Europe

Europoean Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction

Annual Report 2008

3) Report: Estimates of Prevalence of opiate and/or crack cocaine use 2006/7

Estimates of Prevalence of opiate and/or crack cocaine use 2006/7: Summary of Key findings

Gordon Hay, Maria Gannon, Jane MacDougall, Tim Millar, Kate Williams, Catherine Eastwood and

Neil McKeganey

4) Statistical Reports:Statistical analysis of drug treatment activity in England 2005/06 and 2006/07 [NTA June 2008]

Statistical Reports:Statistical analysis of drug treatment activity in England 2005/06 and 2006/07 [NTA June 2008]

2005/6

2006/7

'The 2007/08 data from the National Drug Treatment Monitoring System will be collated and published on Thursday 2nd October at 0930. This data will update provisional figures on numbers in contact with drug treatment for the year 2007/08.' [NTA June 2008]

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Annette Dale-Perera on the major achievements of the drugs field