lying to everybody all the time but the - yes, the drug services have been a big help to me…” (Female, 30-34, urban)
Quantitative analysis of the drug treatment dataset tends to confirm a picture of treatment outcomes being mixed and often less positive than one would wish to see (see Technical Report .s.8.1). Overall, and depending how one counts certain cases where the outcome is unclear, one can say that between 29% and 43% of drug treatments were successfully completed. This proportion was lower for those in the more complex SMD groups, particularly where homelessness was involved. These figures appear to be rather lower than those reported for comparable services in England (Burkinshaw et al, 2017; Bramley et al, 2015).
