How many drug and alcohol rehabilitation facilities offer (a) residential places and (b) non-residential community-based services, broken d…

Information on the number of drug and alcohol rehabilitation facilities is not held centrally. However, information from the National Directory of Drug Services, maintained by the Scottish Drugs Forum, showed that 27 facilities currently offer residential places for rehabilitation. Non-residential community-based services include a range of interventions that have the purpose of tackling the wider social and psychological problems experienced by clients (such as housing, employment/training/education, relationship/family problems, debt and benefits). Information obtained from SDF''s National Directory of Drug Services showed that 215 providers offered non-residential community-based services.
The SDF Directory is available online at:
http://www.scottishdrugservices.com/sdd/homepage.htm.
The Scottish Alcohol Needs Assessment report (published by the Scottish Association of Alcohol and Drug Action Teams) mapped the number of publicly-funded alcohol treatment provision falling within Tiers 2, 3 and 4 modalities of care as defined by Models of Care for Alcohol Misusers (The National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse, 2006). It identified 97 services in Scotland in 2006-07 as providing specialist alcohol interventions of which 10 were residential agencies and the remainder (87) were community-based. The majority (59.4%) provided services for both drug and alcohol misusers and 37.5% provided exclusively alcohol services. The report did not provide a breakdown or services by individual health boards (just groups of health boards) or the number of places available.