Since Drug Strategy's introduction in 1998, step-change achieved in expansion of drug treatment and support, and in development of security measures to reduce supply. Overall level of drugs-misuse has halved since 1996. More work still to do - primarily focussing on consolidation of progress, expansion in treatment capacity and establishing stronger links to community provision.

The Seagrave Trust is a charity devoted to provide humanitarian support for people suffering from addiction problems, providing education through it successful international conferences and courses.
The Seagrave Trust is providing medical management, research programmes, staff training programmes, and expertise advice for other future developments.
More than 200 new patients per month are being detoxified or maintained at HMP Woodhill and HMP Belmarsh every month.
State of the art detoxification procedures and medications are being provided at these facilities. More than 90% of the patients who started the detoxification programme have clean urines two months after day one.

Most of them have never had a detoxification of this levelin other prisons or even in some NHS facilities.The Centre for Research on Drugs and Health Behaviour Department of Social Science and Medicine, Imperial College School of Medicine has evaluated the performance of drug treatment in the above mentioned prisons and HMP Durham. Our staff has an active participation in the steering committee and the field research. Preliminary results will be available by March 2004.