A local authority has one of the best rates of engagement in the country, with 62% of prison leavers who need drug treatment receiving vital help. But how is Sandwell, a place with high rates of poverty offering people a lifeline?
Only 23.8% of the city's prisoners who leave jail needing drug treatment receive it, a figure way below the national average.This local authority has one of the best rates of engagement in the country, with 62% of prison leavers who need drug treatment receiving vital help.It's down to the model. The NHS, council, police and drug specialists work together to help people overcome addiction.
She said their method reduces drug-related deaths, gets more people into treatment and saves money for society."So when we're working with people who are engaged in the criminal justice system and are using drugs, there are a number of points in which we can engage with those people. It allows drug and alcohol workers to meet offenders when they're brought into the station and provide treatment all the way through to when they leave prison.Ms Jones believes this model can be copied and implemented by other local authorities across the country.
"So we would really want to ask the government to look at the model that we've got here and empower the local authorities to come together, to work together to build the same sort of model across the country." Manchester's figures are among the worst in the country at nine drug misuse deaths per 100,000 people.
"So it would be shooting ourselves in the foot as a society to not support this group of people out of those problems and back into a more functioning role in society.""It's also about how much of yourself and the focus of the organisation that goes into this.
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