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May Demands Statement From John Reid Over Drug Centres
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Theresa May has demanded an urgent statement from the Home Secretary on the failings in the Government’s drugs treatment programme. She raised the issue today in Business Questions in the House of Commons.
Shadow Leader of the House, Theresa May said: “Across the country residential rehabilitation centres are seeing occupancy rates below 50% and some as low as 40% or less. "This is putting many of these centres under threat of closure. I see this in my own constituency with the Yeldall Manor centre. "The problem seems to be Government targets, which local drug action teams find easier to meet by putting addicts on methadone or sending them to day treatment centres. "Yet figures from Scotland recently showed that putting heroin addicts on methadone had a 97% failure rate and recent research showed that overall two-year reconviction rates for people given Drug Treatment and Testing Orders were 80%. "In other words Government targets are driving people into ineffective treatment. "This isn’t a question of how much is being spent to treat drug addicts it’s about whether the money is being spent effectively. "Yet again we are seeing a divided and paralysed Government setting targets that fail to deliver.” |
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