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Drug and alcohol services cut by £162m as deaths increase
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Drug and alcohol services cut by £162m as deaths increase
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/bbc-data-unit/drug-alcohol-cuts
- Owner: BBC-Data-Unit
- Created: 2018-07-04T13:21:37.000Z (almost 7 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2018-12-06T12:01:24.000Z (over 6 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-12-27T08:41:56.609Z (4 months ago)
- Topics: alcohol, cuts, drugs
- Homepage: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-44039996
- Size: 1.95 KB
- Stars: 0
- Watchers: 5
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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- Readme: README.md
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# Drug and alcohol services cut by £162m as deaths increase
In May 2018 **David Rhodes** [reported](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-44039996) that £162m (18%) had been cut from treatment budgets in England since 2013-14.
## Get the data
* Public Health England: [Alcohol and drug misuse and treatment statistics](https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/alcohol-and-drug-misuse-and-treatment-statistics)
* [Local authority revenue expenditure and financing](https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/local-authority-revenue-expenditure-and-financing)
* Scottish Parliament [briefing 17-22: Drug Misuse](http://www.parliament.scot/parliamentarybusiness/104141.aspx)
* Home Office: [Drug misuse: findings from the 2016 to 2017 CSEW](https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/drug-misuse-findings-from-the-2016-to-2017-csew)
## Quotes and interviews
* Mel Curtis, former addict
* Eytan Alexander, founder, UKAT
* Spokeswoman, Worcestershire County Council
* Ian Stewart, deputy leader, Cumbria council
* Spokeswoman, Department of Health & Social Care
## Visualisation
* Line chart: Drug-related deaths in the UK, 2006-2016
* Bar chart: Councils that made the biggest cuts to their budgets