Recommendation 52

We repeat the ACMD’s 2016 recommendation that the Government provide centralised funding to support the provision of DAT for people with a chronic heroin dependency for whom other forms of OST have not been successful. The centralised funding should first be provided to Foundations Medical Practice in order to re-establish its DAT programme in Middlesbrough as a matter of urgency. The Government should then work with local authorities to identify other locations in England where a DAT programme supported by holistic and wrap-around care is needed.