Drug and alcohol services cut by £162m as deaths increase

In May 2018 David Rhodes reported that £162m (18%) had been cut from treatment budgets in England since 2013-14.

Get the data

• Public Health England: Alcohol and drug misuse and treatment statistics
• Local authority revenue expenditure and financing
• Scottish Parliament briefing 17-22: Drug Misuse
• Home Office: Drug misuse: findings from the 2016 to 2017 CSEW

Quotes and interviews

• Mel Curtis, former addict
• Eytan Alexander, founder, UKAT
• Spokeswoman, Worcestershire County Council
• Ian Stewart, deputy leader, Cumbria council
• Spokeswoman, Department of Health & Social Care

Visualisation

• Line chart: Drug-related deaths in the UK, 2006-2016
• Bar chart: Councils that made the biggest cuts to their budgets