Health written question – answered at on 1 April 2009.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many (a) teenagers and (b) people have been treated for addiction to cannabis in each of the last 15 years.
The National Drug Treatment Monitoring System (NDTMS), managed by the National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse (NTA) since 2004-05, records data on people in drug treatment in England. Data on young people are only separately available from 2005-06 when the NDTMS started collecting data from all young people's services in England.
Persons presenting for treatment with cannabis as primary substance misused | ||
Young people (under 18 at triage) | All persons (inc. under 18s at triage) | |
2004-05 | n/a | 13,408 |
2005-06 | 9,043 | 21,101 |
2006-07 | 10,824 | 24,669 |
2007-08 | 12,021 | 26,287 |
Yes2 people think so
No1 person thinks not
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Harry McCulla
Posted on 23 Apr 2009 9:02 pm (Report this annotation)
The question has not been answered - there's a difference between drug misuse and drug addiction.