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Annual Report
NTA 
8 October 2009

'Drug treatment has come a long way. Record numbers are now getting help to overcome their addiction, the average time to start treatment is less than a week, and most stay in treatment long enough to benefit. The dedication and commitment of staff in drug action teams and providers across England ensured that 207,580 adults were in contact with structured treatment services during 2008-09. There is no cause for complacency, however. We need to consolidate these achievements and build on them, in the spirit of the new drug strategy, putting as much emphasis on improving quality as maintaining quantity. Hence the twin themes of recovery and reintegration set out in this report.'

"Record numbers of adults are on the road to recovery from drug addiction, according to national figures for 2008/09 published today (8 October) by the National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse (NTA). For more information, and to view a copy of the annual report and statistics, click here (www.nta.nhs.uk)"

NTA 2009

The Long View 

With the revised agenda comes an acknowledgment – for which Hayes credits ‘the
doctors who are always very keen to remind us’ – that there will be a certain
proportion of people who will probably never leave the system. ‘So we need to be
working with the people who can leave, who can get out at a sensible pace,’ he says.