Welcome to the DAT Services Homepage

The Drug Action Team (DAT) is responsible for the delivery of the treatment element of the Drug Strategy which seeks to reduce drug related violence and crime. The strategy seeks to reduce and prevent usage of illegal drugs and alcohol, minimise their harm, treat and rehabilitate users, reduce related offending and crime, and thereby to make a significant contribution to community well being.

The Drug Action Team reports to the National Treatment Agency (NTA) on a monthly basis.

The National Treatment Agency (NTA) is a special health authority, created by the Government in 2001 to ensure that there is more treatment, better treatment and fairer treatment available to all those who need it.

‘While the numbers of people with serious drug problems may be small, drug misuse affects us all. Providing drug misusers with well-managed, effective treatment is the most successful way of tackling all of these harms. But giving up and staying off drugs is difficult. Most drug misusers relapse and need to return to treatment a number of times before getting their habit under control. However, around 50 per cent of those who do complete a comprehensive treatment programme are still drug-free after five years.’

The following areas are key to the delivery of our aspirations and effective treatment for drug misusers.