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Tuesday, November 25, 2008

LDAN REPORT HIGHLIGHTS ALCOHOL RESOURCE ISSUE

An LDAN report suggests alcohol services in London are not adequately funded to cope with the growing levels of alcohol misuse. The London Alcohol Statistics Project indicates that alcohol misusers are waiting twice as long as drug users for treatment, while staff struggle to keep on top of data collection and outcome monitoring. Data on almost 7000 service users in 27 London boroughs was collected in the project.

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