10 Interesting Things about Alcohol and Other Drugs (January 2015)

We scour the data on alcohol and other drugs and here are 10 things we found in the last month that might interest you, including:

• The number of high risk drug users, 
• Police estimates of the cost and purity of drugs, 
• Trends in property crime, and how drug services may have contributed to it's decline
• Numbers in treatment in Wales, 
• Benefit claimants with drug problems in Scotland (and alcohol problems across the UK), 
• Detection of drugs in prison, and 
• The support needs of single homeless people

As always any misinterpretation of the data you spot are down to me (and please do let me know so that I can fix them).