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To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people in Blyth Valley constituency were on methadone maintenance treatment in the last three years; and what proportion of all NHS spending on methadone maintenance treatment was spent in Blyth Valley constituency in that time.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people in Blyth Valley constituency were on methadone maintenance treatment in the last three years; and what proportion of all NHS spending on methadone maintenance treatment was spent in Blyth Valley constituency in that time.
The National Drug Treatment Monitoring System collects information on the number of people receiving substitute prescribing interventions for substance misuse in England, but does not distinguish between methadone and other drugs such as buprenorphine which are also recommended for the treatment of opioid drug misuse by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence.
Figures for adults receiving a prescribing intervention in Northumberland for the last three years are presented below. Treatment figures are only available at local authority level, so the requested figures for the Blyth Valley constituency are not available. Information on methadone maintenance spending is not collected centrally.
| Adults in receipt of a prescribing intervention |
2011-12 | 775 |
2012-13 | 778 |
2013-14 | 769 |
Source: National Drug Treatment Monitoring System (NDTMS)
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many prisoners are on methadone programmes; and how many such prisoners have been on methadone programmes for more than (a) one month, (b) two months, (c) three months, (d) six months, (e) a year, (f) two years and (g) four years.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many prisoners are on methadone programmes; and how many such prisoners have been on methadone programmes for more than (a) one month, (b) two months, (c) three months, (d) six months, (e) a year, (f) two years and (g) four years.
The National Drug Treatment Monitoring System (NDTMS) records the number of interventions in prisons, but not which medicine is prescribed. The presumption is that methadone or buprenorphine will be prescribed.
Figures are not available in the form requested. The table below presents the number of opioid substitute treatment interventions ending in 2013-14 and the average length of time in days that detainees received that intervention. Some detainees will have moved from a maintenance prescription to a reduction prescription and so will appear in both sets of figures. In addition, some detainees will have started and ended an intervention in more than one prison and will appear more than once in the figures.
Unless there are clinical reasons to the contrary, prisoners serving a sentence of more than six months will be expected to work towards becoming drug free.
Opioid reduction | Average length of treatment (days) | Opioid maintenance | Average length of treatment (days) |
10,455 | 117 | 24,088 | 107 |
Source: NDTMS 2013-14
Equivalent figures for 2012-13 are not available.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the press release by the Department for Work and Pensions on 31 October 2014 on the families test, whether his Department has conducted such a test on its policy on long-term prescribing of methadone for opiate addicts.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to the press release by the Department for Work and Pensions on 31 October 2014 on the families test, whether his Department has conducted such a test on its policy on long-term prescribing of methadone for opiate addicts.
Treatment for an addiction to opiates is a clinical matter, to be agreed between the individual and their treatment provider in the context of the relevant evidence-base and related authoritative guidance. Proper professional practice of those prescribing for addiction is regulated through mechanisms established by Parliament.
A 2013 inspection by Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission praised joint working between children’s social care and drug and alcohol services to ensure that children affected by their parents’ or carers’ difficulties were supported and safe.