Including... commissioners plans to reduce spending on services, injecting drug users and HIV, smoking prevalence, proportion of new Europol cases relating to drugs, time people spend on OST, regional variation on emergency hospital admissions for alcohol related liver disease, prisoners use of substances and their relationship to the crimes committed, numbers accessing domestic violence refuges, single homeless people's use of drugs and alcohol

1. 10 things about
alcohol and other
drugs you may have
missed
October 2014
Andrew Brown
Director of Policy, Influence and Engagement
DrugScope
@andrewbrown365

2. Funding intentions of drug and alcohol
commissioners for 2014/15 and 2015/16
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
No change Reduction Increase Dependent No decision
made/don't
know
Missing data
%
2014/15 (%) 2015/16 (%)
36%of councils are
planning to reduce or
change funding levels
for drug and alcohol
services over the next
two financial years.
Source: Review of Drug and Alcohol Commissioning; A joint review conducted by Public Health England and the Association of
Directors of Public Health. (Public Health England 2014)

3. Adjusted counts for HIV diagnoses
caused by probable exposure through
injecting drug use, by year of diagnosis
0
50
100
150
200
250
2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013
Source: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/hiv-data-tables

4. Number of people receiving care for HIV
infections
36,231
39,169
1,686 656 1,601 2,169
0
5,000
10,000
15,000
20,000
25,000
30,000
35,000
40,000
45,000
There were 112 new cases
of HIV infection observed in
the UK in 2013 where
exposure was as a result of
injecting drug use.
This is only 2% of the total
number of new infections
for the year. The majority
of new infection are
attributed to sexual
contacts (54% from sex
between men, and 42%
from heterosexual contact).
Source: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/hiv-data-tables

5. in five
adults aged
16 and over
were smokers
in 2012 0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
1998 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
PROPORTION OF THE ADULT (OVER
16 YEARS) POPULATION WHO ARE
SMOKERS BY SEX AND YEAR
Men Women
One
Source: Statistics on Smoking, England – 2014 (HSCIC 2014)

6. One in four new Europol
cases initiated in 2013 were
drug related
Drugs
24%
There were 18,310 new
Europol cases initiated in
2013 (an increase of 15%
on the previous year).
Of which one in four were
drug related – the largest
category, followed by fraud
and swindling (16%)
robbery (12%), money
laundering (11%) and
illegal immigration (9%).
Source: Europol Review 2013: General Report On Europol Activities

7. Length of time in prescribing for
clients in continuous prescribing
treatment
0
10,000
20,000
30,000
40,000
50,000
60,000
Less than 12
months
1 to 2 years 2 to 3 years 3 to 4 years 4 to 5 years 5+ years
2010/11 2011/12 2012/13
Source: http://www.nta.nhs.uk/statistics.aspx

9. Thinking about the offence(s) that you
committed in the 12 months before you
came into custody...
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80%
… had you used any illegal drugs when you
committed this/any of them?
… did you commit this offence/any of these
offences in order to get money to buy
drugs?
… did you commit this offence/any of these
offences in order to obtain drugs directly?
… how much would you say that your
offending was connected with your drug
use (always)?
… did you commit this offence/any of these
offences in order to support the drug use of
someone else?
female male
Source: Gender differences in substance misuse and mental health amongst prisoners
Results from the Surveying Prisoner Crime Reduction (SPCR) longitudinal cohort study of
prisoners
“A high level of prisoners
report a problem with
substance misuse. In the
SPCR survey 64% reported
using drugs and 22% said they
drank alcohol every day in the
month prior to custody: both
these groups had a higher
reconviction rate. Those with
substance misuse issues have
also been found to be more
likely to have accommodation
needs.”
Resettlement provision for adult offenders:
Accommodation and education, training
and employment , A joint thematic review
by HM Inspectorate of Prisons, HM
Inspectorate of Probation and Ofsted
(2014)

10. Number of women and children accessing
domestic abuse services between 2007/08
and 2011/12, Women’s Aid Annual Survey
0
5,000
10,000
15,000
20,000
25,000
2007/08 2008/09 2009/10 2010/11 2011/12
Women Children
“In terms of domestic
abuse, research
typically finds that
between 25% and
50% of perpetrators
have been drinking
at the time of assault,
although in some
studies the figure is
as high as 73%.”
Source: Alcohol, Domestic Abuse And Sexual Assault, Institute of Alcohol Studies (2014)

11. The proportion of single homeless
people reporting that they...
… take drugs or are in recovery
39%
… have or are recovering from an
alcohol problem
27%
Source: Homeless Link and St Mungo’s Broadway (2014) Needs to know: Including single homelessness in Joint Strategic Needs
Assessments http://www.homeless.org.uk/sites/default/files/site-attachments/20141009%20Needs_to_Know_Report_2014_Final.pdf