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A letter in the Daily Telegraph is reproduced here, written by a group of organisations in the private sector who are dedicated to reducing the Brtain's drug culture.

SIR – We represent leading voluntary and private sector abstinence-based rehabilitation centres in England. We were concerned by the revelations in Kathy Gyngell’s report, published by the Centre for Policy Studies, Breaking the Habit: why the state should stop dealing drugs and start doing rehab (“Benefits and treatment for drug addicts cost £3.6 billion a year”, telegraph.co.uk, June 19).

We call on the Government to make abstinence-based rehabilitation central to the implementation of its drugs policy. Fewer than 2 per cent of addicts seeking help to quit drugs are currently referred to rehab. An immediate goal of 25 per cent is feasible. Such a commitment is necessary to turn around the tanker of dependency.

In the two years before the general election, an average of one rehab unit closed each month. A progressive decline in statutory referrals, with the loss of about 1,000 beds, continues. Yet taxpayers are funding the continued dependency of the 98 per cent of addicts in so-called treatment, to the tune of billions of pounds. This process will continue if the Coalition leaves current commissioning arrangements for drugs and alcohol services in place under the direction of the National Treatment Agency, soon to be transferred to Public Health England.

Unless the Coalition takes action quickly, the Prime Minister’s call to help addicts to become clean, free of drugs and build new lives, will be thwarted.

Deirdre Boyd
CEO, Addiction Recovery Foundation 
Ed Smith
Director, Acorn Treatment and Housing 
Peter Walker
CEO, Addiction Recovery Agency 
Richard Johnson
Director, ANA Treatment Centres 
Ges Schofield
Manager, Ark House 
Derek Mace
CEO, Bosence and Boswyns 
Gina Dormer
CEO, Broadreach Group 
Brian Dudley
CEO, Broadway Lodge 
Clive Wolfendale
CAIS Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation 
Simon Stephens
Director of case work, Addictions UK 
Barnaby Guthrie
CEO, Clinical Partners 
Chip Somers
CEO, Focus12 
Wendy Dawson
CEO, Ley Community 
Anthony Massouras
Chairman, Mimosa Healthcare Group 
Ruth Allonby
CEO, Mount Carmel 
Jan and Carl de Vera Davey
CEOs, Open Minds 
Carl Edwards
Director, Park View Project 
James Peacock
Senior statutory coordinator, Perry Clayman Project 
John Grady
Director, Pierpoint Addiction Treatment 
Steve Spiegel
Director, Providence Projects 
Arlene Rodgers
Director, Quinton House 
Jon Harman
Director, Ravenscourt Trust 
Gavin Cooper
Managing director, Trust the Process 
Tom Kirkwood
CEO, TTP Recovery Communities 
Amanda Thomas
CEO, Western Counselling 
Ken Wiltshire
Director, Yeldall Manor 
Matthew Franzidis
Chief operating officer, Priory Healthcare

Further, it seems an important signatory to the concordat; The Salvation Army, was omitted from the letter it is added here for clarity,

The Salvation Army – Gloucester House Addictions Rehabilitation Centre (via Major Dean Logan).

The link to the letter can be found in the opening parag raph, and again here: Daily Telegraph

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