Individuals Identified as Drinking at Increasing or Higher Risk Levels

Please provide the following for your Authority for each of the last three financial years (2023/24-2025/26):



1) The number of individuals identified as drinking at increasing or higher risk levels (e.g. via AUDIT/AUDIT-C screening), or as using illicit drugs or misusing prescription medication at a problematic level, whether or not they went on to access structured treatment.



2) Of those individuals identified in point 1, the number referred into commissioned drug and alcohol treatment services, broken down by referral source (e.g. self-referral, GP, A&E, criminal justice/probation, mental health services, other).



3) Of those identified but not referred, or referred but not engaged, the number and reason recorded (e.g. declined, did not attend, below treatment threshold, no service offered).



4) Average waiting time from referral to first treatment contact.

Details of any digital health, cessation, or harm reduction app or self-management tool currently commissioned for addiction, substance use, gambling, or wellbeing support ' including the product/provider name, contract value, contract length, and cost per

head or per user licence, where not commercially sensitive.

1. This data is not retained by the local authority.

2. The below table is a breakdown of referral sources for individuals starting a new treatment episode with the commissioned drug & alcohol treatment service during 2025/2026. The local authority does not have data for individuals pre-structured drug & alcohol treatment.

3. Numbers of individuals referred but not engaged (& the reasons) is information held by the treatment provider.

4. The local authority can only advise that nobody (0 people) referred to drug & alcohol structured treatment waited longer than 3 weeks to start their first intervention.  The specific details on numbers of days between referral & first intervention is held by the treatment provider.

The local authority cannot provide a cost breakdown and cost per head for digital interventions in substance use treatment as these interventions are included in the overall contract value.