Drug and alcohol treatment, England
Accredited official statistics
Adults in drug and alcohol treatment in England each year since 2005-06, by the substance that brought them, and children in treatment, from OHID's National Drug Treatment Monitoring System statistics.
Adults in drug and alcohol treatment
329,646
2024/25 · and 16,212 children
Verified against source, 8 November 2026, 13:29 UTC- Adults in treatment
- Children in treatment
- Adults: opiates
- Adults: non-opiates only
- Adults: non-opiates and alcohol
- Adults: alcohol only
Source: Office for Health Improvement and Disparities. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Data table
20 rows
| Category | Adults in treatment | Children in treatment | Adults: opiates | Adults: non-opiates only | Adults: non-opiates and alcohol | Adults: alcohol only |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005/06 | 216,802 | 17,105 | 140,557 | 26,287 | 14,737 | 35,221 |
| 2006/07 | 241,641 | 21,207 | 154,596 | 28,777 | 18,154 | 40,114 |
| 2007/08 | 265,832 | 24,280 | 160,997 | 27,398 | 22,741 | 54,696 |
| 2008/09 | 304,409 | 24,494 | 170,005 | 27,186 | 28,560 | 78,658 |
| 2009/10 | 311,667 | 24,165 | 170,032 | 24,557 | 28,992 | 88,086 |
| 2010/11 | 309,000 | 22,555 | 169,144 | 23,613 | 28,223 | 88,020 |
| 2011/12 | 299,565 | 21,249 | 162,435 | 22,982 | 27,732 | 86,416 |
| 2012/13 | 297,105 | 20,601 | 157,959 | 23,975 | 27,627 | 87,544 |
| 2013/14 | 301,944 | 19,682 | 155,852 | 25,570 | 28,871 | 91,651 |
| 2014/15 | 295,224 | 18,865 | 152,964 | 25,025 | 28,128 | 89,107 |
| 2015/16 | 288,843 | 17,523 | 149,807 | 25,814 | 28,187 | 85,035 |
| 2016/17 | 279,793 | 16,849 | 146,536 | 24,561 | 28,242 | 80,454 |
| 2017/18 | 268,390 | 15,902 | 141,189 | 23,730 | 27,684 | 75,787 |
| 2018/19 | 268,251 | 14,777 | 139,845 | 24,253 | 28,598 | 75,555 |
| 2019/20 | 270,705 | 14,291 | 140,599 | 25,226 | 30,262 | 74,618 |
| 2020/21 | 275,896 | 11,013 | 140,863 | 27,605 | 30,688 | 76,740 |
| 2021/22 | 289,215 | 11,326 | 140,558 | 29,582 | 34,378 | 84,697 |
| 2022/23 | 290,635 | 12,418 | 138,604 | 30,001 | 35,773 | 86,257 |
| 2023/24 | 310,863 | 14,352 | 137,965 | 36,527 | 42,198 | 94,173 |
| 2024/25 | 329,646 | 16,212 | 138,255 | 43,678 | 47,758 | 99,955 |
Source and licence
- Publisher
- Office for Health Improvement and Disparities
- Check it yourself
- https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/alcohol-and-drug-misuse-and-treatment-statistics
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0 – Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Retrieved
- 8 November 2026, 13:11 UTC
- Raw files fetched
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Verification
Verified against source, 8 November 2026, 13:29 UTC Run at 8 November 2026, 13:29 UTC; 120 of 120 figures matched the live source.
| Result | Check | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Pass | Provenance recorded | Office for Health Improvement and Disparities; Open Government Licence v3.0; retrieved 2026-11-08T13:11:12Z; 4 raw file(s) |
| Pass | Raw files match recorded SHA-256 | 4 of 4 files intact |
| Pass | Re-parsing raw files reproduces figures | 120 of 120 figures and the headline reproduced |
| Pass | Figures are finite numbers | 120 figures, 0 invalid |
| Pass | Live source matches every figure | 120 of 120 figures match exactly after downloading 4 source file(s) again (4 byte-identical); the headline matches |
| Pass | GOV.UK table is current | latest period 2024/25 ended 587 days before retrieval (limit 640), from the stored table |
| Pass | Each workbook's Table 1.1 agrees | 6 of 6 figures match the latest year's Table 1.1 of both workbooks |
| Pass | Source page answers | https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/alcohol-and-drug-misuse-and-treatment-statistics – HTTP 200 |
Notes
- People in contact with drug and alcohol treatment services in England in the year, from April to March, as the National Drug Treatment Monitoring System records them. Adults are counted once, under the substance group OHID places them in: opiates, non-opiates only, non-opiates with alcohol, or alcohol only.
- OHID now counts children, those under 18, where it counted young people before, and has revised the earlier years' children by the new method, so its tables of children differ from the young people it published before 2024-25.
- The adults in treatment are OHID's own totals, not the hub's sum of the four groups.