§ Mr. StreeterTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what information he has collated on average waiting times for admission to(a) state-supported methadone programmes and (b) state-supported programmes aimed at overcoming heroin addiction that do not involve the prescription of methadone. [83858]
§ Ms BlearsThis information is not available in the format requested. The table below provides waiting time figures collected by the national treatment agency in December 2001, along with locally agreed targets for 2002 and the national targets for 2002–03 and 2003–04. The specialist prescribing and general practitioner prescribing treatment modalities below include methadone programmes, and the other figures (with the exception of inpatient detoxification) include non-methadone treatments.
The specialist prescribing and GP prescribing treatment modalities in the following table include places in methadone programmes, and the other figures (with the exception of in-patient detoxification) include non-methadone treatments.
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Treatment modality Number in treatment Percentage in treatment In-patient detoxification 2,424 2 Specialist prescribing 103,094 87 GP prescribing 8,180 7 Day care 706 1 Residential rehabilitation 1,902 2