The provision of drug and alcohol interventions in prisons has grown rapidly over the last 10 years. It is not possible accurately to record which establishment offered each type of drug or alcohol intervention year on year over time period requested.
NOMS has in place a comprehensive drug treatment framework, based on the National Treatment Agency's revised Models of Care, to address the different needs of drug-misusers in prison. The interventions available are designed to meet the needs of low, moderate and severe drug misusers—irrespective of age, gender or ethnicity.
The interventions are comprised of:
Clinical Services (detoxification and/or maintenance prescribing)—all prisoners have access to a range of clinical services.
CARATs (Counselling, Assessment, Referral, Advice and Throughcare service)—specialist support and advice services that,
following assessment, deliver psychosocial interventions, treatment and support. All adult prisons offer CARAT services.
Drug Rehabilitation Programmes—There are 114 drug rehabilitation programmes running in 99 establishments (see Table 1).
The number of prisoners engaged in drug treatment is in Table 2..
A range of interventions are available in prisons to support those with an alcohol problem:
clinical services—alcohol detoxification is available in all local and remand prisons;
where alcohol is part of a wider substance misuse problem, the full range of drug interventions are available;
a number of prisons run alcohol awareness courses;
Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) run groups in around 67 per cent. of prisons;
some offending behaviour programmes address the underlying factors which occur in alcohol related crime;
an accredited 12-step alcohol programme is being run at HMP Bullingdon;
a further four more intensive interventions Cognitive Behavioural Alcohol Programmes are being piloted at HMP Hull, Forest Bank, Glen Parva and Chelmsford;
for those prisons(ers) involved in the roll-out of the Integrated Drug Treatment System (IDTS) a 90 minute alcohol awareness session has been developed; and
the young persons substance misuse service for 15-17 year old prisoners has a particular focus on alcohol.
The National Offender Management Service (NOMS) does not collate figures centrally on the number of prisoners accessing services specifically aimed at their alcohol misuse.
Establishment Drug Treatment Programmes Delivered Acklington STOP Altcourse SDP AND STOP Ashwell PASRO Aylesbury PASRO Bedford SDP Belmarsh SDP Birmingham SDP Blakenhurst SDP Blundeston PASRO Bristol SDP Brixton PASRO AND SDP Bullingdon 12 STEP; SDP Camp Hill PASRO Cardiff PASRO Castington SDP Channings Wood TC Chelmsford PASRO Coldingley 12 step Cookham Wood PASRO Dartmoor PASRO AND 12 Step Deerbolt PASRO Doncaster SDP Dorchester SDP Downview SDP Drake Hall TC Durham PASRO Eastwood Park SDR Edmunds Hill PASRO Elmley PASRO AND SDP Erlestoke 12 step Everthorpe PASRO AND 12 Step Exeter SDP Featherstone PASRO Ford SDP Forest Bank SDP Frankland FOCUS Full Sutton FOCUS Garth TC Gartree STOP Glen Parva PASRO AND SDP Gloucester SDP Guys Marsh PASRO Haverigg PASRO High Down SDP Highpoint AOD; PASRO AND STOP Hindley PASRO Hollesley Bay SDP Holloway SDP Holme House TC AND SDP Hull SDP Kingston PASRO Kirkham PASRO Lancaster PASRO AND 12 Step Lancaster Farms SDP Leeds SDP Leicester SDP Lewes PASRO Leyhill SDP Lincoln PASRO Lindholme PASRO Littlehey 12 step Liverpool PASRO Long Lartin FOCUS Low Newton PASRO Maidstone PASRO Manchester SDP Moorland PASRO Mount 12 step New Hall SDP North Sea Camp SDP Northallerton SDP Norwich 12 step Nottingham SDP Onley PASRO Pare PASRO Pentonville PASRO AND SDP Peterborough Male SDP Portland PASRO Preston SDP Ranby PASRO Reading SDP Risley PASRO Rochester PASRO Send 12 step Stafford PASRO Stocken STOP Stoke Heath SDP AND PASRO Styal SDP Swaleside 12 step Swansea 12 step AND SDP Swinfen Hall PASRO Thorn Cross SDP Verne 12 step Wakefield FOCUS Wayland PASRO Wellingborough PASRO Whitemoor FOCUS Winchester PASRO AND SDP Wormwood Scrubs PASRO AND SDP Wymott TC
Establishment Clinical interventions (detox or maintenance) CARATs (substance misuse triage assessments) Drug treatment programme starts Acklington 0 125 24 Albany 0 20 0 Altcourse 861 1,488 336 Ashfield2 55 0 0 Ashwell 0 240 84 Askham Grange 0 36 0 Aylesbury2 10 73 60 Bedford 594 1,012 240 Belmarsh 866 1,268 60 Birmingham 4,529 2,676 120 Blakenhurst 1,916 1,762 251 Blantyre House 0 0 0 Blundeston 0 262 84 Brinsford2 364 757 0 Bristol 1,370 1,060 120 Brixton 1,877 1,616 336 Brockhill 0 24 0 Bronzefield 1,168 1127 0 Buckley Hall 0 80 0 Bullingdon 958 1,234 425 Bullwood Hall 0 103 0 Camp Hill 0 73 96 Canterbury 0 100 0 Cardiff 841 834 96 Castington2 50 470 100 Channings Wood 0 52 56 Chelmsford 745 1,140 96 Coldingley 5 76 100 Cookham Wood 2 26 14 Dartmoor 0 114 117 Deerbolt2 0 359 80 Doncaster 1,727 2,190 240 Dorchester 574 669 120 Dovegate 0 143 0 Dover 0 0 0 Downview 0 38 31 Drake Hall 0 67 40 Durham 2,142 839 96 East Sutton Park 0 29 0 Eastwood Park 1,504 988 60 Edmunds Hill 0 162 60 Elmley 1,251 1,074 216 Erlestoke 0 81 60 Everthorpe 0 219 171 Exeter 877 767 240 Featherstone 0 204 96 Feltham2 258 1,015 0 Ford 0 206 111 Forest Bank 914 1,280 240 Foston Hall 896 433 0 Frankland 0 51 19 Full Sutton 0 50 19 Garth 0 66 46 Gartree 0 81 31 GlenParva2 457 1,001 210 Gloucester 926 676 108 Grendon 0 66 0 Guys Marsh 0 155 96 Haslar 0 0 0 Hatfield 0 0 0 Haverigg 0 84 96 Hewell 0 0 0 Hewell Grange 0 12 0 High Down 1,192 1,410 78 Highpoint 0 333 118 Hindley2 0 191 70 Hollesley Bay 0 71 131 Holloway 1,131 1,282 120 Holme House 1,622 1,080 156 Hull 1,271 1,561 108 Huntercombe (Juvenile)2 0 0 0 Kennet 0 49 0 Kingston 0 10 24 Kirkham 0 137 96 Kirklevington 0 75 0 Lancaster 0 33 76 Lancaster Farms2 0 496 100 Latchmere House 0 53 0 Leeds 3,562 1815 120 Leicester 943 970 120 Lewes 709 750 96 Leyhill 0 163 60 Lincoln 1,540 934 73 Lindholme 0 142 144 Littlehey 0 161 59 Liverpool 1,520 1,702 96 Long Lartin 0 40 17 Low Newton 355 321 60 Lowdham Grange 216 38 0 Maidstone 0 112 96 Manchester 1,352 1,506 60 Moorland 0 208 78 Morton Hall 0 60 0 Mount 0 236 101 New Hall 1,749 913 120 North Sea Camp 0 160 111 Northallerton2 0 202 100 Norwich 732 750 78 Nottingham 1,102 972 120 Onley 0 398 90 Pare 364 386 96 Parkhurst 81 39 0 Pentonville 1,766 1,620 216 Peterborough 0 966 59 Portland2 0 206 80 Preston 1,280 1,328 240 Ranby 0 459 96 Reading2 96 419 100 Risley 0 144 96 Rochester2 0 156 80 Rye Hill 0 57 0 Send 0 44 60 Shepton Mallet 0 18 0 Shrewsbury 835 755 0 Stafford 95 93 95 Standford Hill 13 136 0 Stocken 0 110 72 Stoke Heath2 50 427 90 Styal 1,129 988 240 Sudbury 1 111 0 Swaleside 63 96 100 Swansea 806 530 124 Swinfen Hall2 0 152 80 Thorn Cross2 0 112 88 Usk\Prescoed 0 301 0 Verne 0 42 0 Wakefield 0 38 18 Wandsworth 2,100 1,701 179 Warren Hill (Juvenile)2 0 0 0 Wayland 0 191 96 Wealstun 0 197 120 Weare 0 0 0 Wellingborough 0 147 88 Werrington (Juvenile)2 0 0 0 Wetherby (Juvenile)2 31 0 0 Whatton 0 24 0 Whitemoor 0 53 20 Winchester 618 1151 192 Wolds 0 16 0 Woodhill 1231 812 0 Wormwood Scrubs 1,517 1,536 336 Wymott 0 75 81 Total 58,809 65,823 11,256 1 Alcohol treatment and rehabilitation services for those with an alcohol dependency in prisons are in the main provided within the wider drug treatment framework. The proportion of prisoners accessing treatment services for alcohol is not disaggregated. 2 Indicates establishments noted as a main function of Young Offender Institution during 2007-08.
These figures have been drawn from administrative data systems. Although care is taken when processing and analysing the returns, the detail collected is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large scale recording system.