§ Mr. David Youngasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what are the numbers of registered drug addicts in the Bolton district health authority area.
§ Mr. MellorThe available information about the number of notified drug addicts relates to police force areas and is given for the Greater Manchester police force area in the table.
Narcotic drug addicts notified to the Home Office and the number of addicts recorded as receiving notifiable drugs in treatment of their addiction at 31 December, 1983 Greater Manchester Number of persons* New addicts notified during year 204 Former addicts notified during year 28 Addicts recorded at 31 December 174 * provisional