Introduction

The Government's Drug Strategy emphasises that getting drug misusers into treatment and offering support is the best way of improving their health and increasing their ability to lead fulfilling lives.

The NTA (National Treatment Agency) oversees the development and delivery of high-quality treatment services throughout England, regardless of where a person lives. The NTA and Drug Teams in the regional Government Offices monitor the effectiveness of local delivery by Drug Action Teams through support and advice to ensure consistency of approach and high quality provision.

Treatment planning and monitoring is driven forward via a Template consisting of two documents, the Treatment Plan (information on future policies) and the Annual Return (a review of activities over the past year).

Treatment services for Norfolk include advice and information, community prescribing, care planning, inpatient and community detoxification, structured counselling and much more.

Advice, Information and Carers ??
Where to find advice and information and help for carers.

Access to Treatment

Norfolk has a wide variety of drug treatment agencies around the county.

In order to find the most appropriate agency for your needs please take a look at our services section on this website, where you will find a description of the services that each agency offers and details of how to contact them.

Most of the drug treatment services in Norfolk offer an open-access policy, this means that you can contact them directly and they will arrange an appointment with you. Some agencies offer a drop-in service where you can access a duty worker at set times without an appointment.

You can also speak to your GP who may be able to help or refer you to a specialist agency.

Norfolk Adult Treatment Plan

In this section you will find the latest copies of Norfolk's Adult Treatment Plan and Commissioning Strategy .

NTA Toolkit for delivering 'Talking Therapies'

The National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse (NTA) together with the British Psychological Society (BPS) is launching a toolkit for delivering psychological therapies to support drug users to overcome addiction. Aimed at a wide range of staff including practitioners, service managers and commissioners, the toolkit outlines core therapeutic skills needed to deliver drug treatment and supports the use of talking therapies to increase users' chances of recovery and reintegration. Treatment for drug misuse should always involve a psychosocial component.

A framework and toolkit for implementing NICE-recommended treatment interventions' - is available from the NTA's website at: http://www.nta.nhs.uk/areas/workforce/psychosocial_tools.aspx