The Prison Service has contracts with three voluntary support groups, one in each of the establishments, to provide counselling and education services to prisoners who have abused substances.
The number of drug and/or alcohol misuse programmes provided is as follows:
Number 2002-03 17 2003-04 32 2004-05 28 2005-06 35 2006-07 (to end February) 57 Total 169
In addition there are very many counselling sessions with individual prisoners.