Fewer than 3,000 people referred for specialist drug misuse treatment in 2019/2020, report says
Offenders in England and Wales who are supervised in the community are not receiving enough help to tackle drug misuse, and specialist programmes for identifying at-risk users of drugs have “withered on the vine”, a watchdog has said.
At least 75,000 of the 156,000 offenders in probation use drugs problematically yet fewer than 3,000 people were referred by probation services to specialist drug misuse treatment in 2019/2020, Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Probation (HMIP) found.
