Prisons: Drugs

Part of the debate – in the House of Lords at on 10 June 2008.

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Photo of Baroness Massey of Darwen Baroness Massey of Darwen Labour

My Lords, I should declare an interest as the chair of the National Treatment Agency for substance misuse and I have just come straight from a prison where I was looking at substance misuse in prison. Does my noble friend agree that treatment services outside prison in the community have improved dramatically in the past few years due to the hard work of professionals and that in prisons, with the integrated treatment services that are now in place, those services can be expected to improve dramatically? Key to all this is the resettlement of prisoners outside prison. In other words, we need through care and after care to be successful.