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Notes for A10

A person may report using several drugs, one of which is recorded as the "main" drug used and the rest as subsidiary drugs.  This analysis is based on the main drug only.

These figures show users who presented to services for problem drug misuse for the first time or for the first time for six months.  They do not give a complete picture of people receiving treatment.

Prior to the period ending March 1999 a few misusers were recorded as drug free.  These users were drug free when they presented to services and no  information on previous drug misuse was recorded. Since then, information has been obtained on previous drug misuse for all users.

Some later provisional data are available from the National Drug Treatment Monitoring System (NDTMS), which is now responsible for collecting these data: see the press release "Provisional Statistics from the National Drug Treatment Monitoring System in England, 2001/02 and 2002/03", available at: http://www.doh.gov.uk/public/spndrugs0312.htm

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