title: Specialist drug and alcohol services for young people - a cost benefit analysis
abstract: This report looks at the costs and benefits associated with young people’s drug and alcohol treatment in the United Kingdom.&#13;\n&#13;\nThere were approximately 24,000 young people who received specialist drug and alcohol treatment in the UK in 2008-09. This is defined as “a care planned medical, psychosocial or specialist harm reduction intervention”. As set out in the Drug Strategy 2010 such treatment is aimed at preventing escalation of use or harm and should “respond incrementally to the r