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The Drug and Alcohol Action Team (DAAT) is responsible for the delivery of the treatment element of the Drug Strategy which seeks to reduce drug related violence and crime. The strategy seeks to reduce and prevent usage of illegal drugs and alcohol, minimise their harm, treat and rehabilitate users, reduce related offending and crime, and thereby to make a significant contribution to community well being.

The DAAT reports to the National Treatment Agency (NTA) on a monthly basis.

The NTA is a special health authority, created by the Government in 2001 to ensure that there is more treatment, better treatment and fairer treatment available to all those who need it.
The NTA’s overall purpose is to:
“Get drug users into treatment, help them recover from dependency, and reintegrate them back into society. Our priorities:
  • Help people overcome addiction and regain their lives
    • Support their families to rebuild their lives
    • Help build the evidence underpinning drug treatment
    • Promote a balanced treatment system, where the type of treatment you get matches your needs
    • Benefit communities through less crime, better health and more stable families”

Established in 2001, the NTA’s early years focused on improving access and capacity: getting people in to treatment; with this broadly achieved, the focus has shifted to retention: keeping people in long enough to gain lasting benefit.
For the Isle of Wight, while the numbers of people with serious drug problems may be small, drug misuse affects us all. Providing drug misusers with well-managed, effective treatment is the most successful way of tackling all of these harms. But giving up and staying off drugs is difficult. Most drug misusers relapse and need to return to treatment a number of times before getting their habit under control. However, around 50 per cent of those who do complete a comprehensive treatment programme are still drug-free after five years.’

The following areas are key to the delivery of our aspirations and effective treatment for drug misusers.
  • Commissioning
  • Young Peoples Substance Misuse Service – “Get Sorted”
  • Adult Substance Misuse Services
  • Safer Neighbourhoods - Drug Intervention Programme
  • Service User Volunteers – RESULT
  • Alcohol Services

There is still the opportunity to provide feedback for the 2011-12 Needs Assessment by completing and returning the Questionnaire below. The timescale for responses is 31 October 2010 Please return the form to us at: Isle of Wight DAAT Jubilee Stores, The Quay, Newport Isle of Wight, PO30 2EH; or by e-mail to [email protected]

Questionnaire 2011-12 Needs Assessment



Page last updated on: 15/09/2011