Alcoholism: Health Services
(asked on 24th July 2024) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask His Majesty's Government how many individuals aged 10–19 received treatment for alcohol abuse in (1) 2019, (2) 2020, (3) 2021, (4) 2022, and (5) 2023
The information is not available in the format requested. The number of people who have received alcohol treatment is collected and published by the National Drug Treatment Monitoring System (NDTMS), with treatment numbers being published from April to March each year. The following table shows the number of people aged 10 to 19 years old who received treatment for their alcohol use, from 2018/19 to 2022/23:
Year | People between 10 and 19 years old who received treatment for their alcohol use |
2018/19 | 8,220 |
2019/20 | 7,659 |
2020/21 | 6,060 |
2021/22 | 6,955 |
2022/23 | 7,123 |
Source of Data: National Drug Treatment Monitoring System.