Publications

Since its inception in 1999 Salford DAAT has produced and made available to the public many reports and plans relating to all aspects of its work including:

Young people
Adults
Strategy and policy
Drugs
Alcohol
Treatment
Crime and drug supply
Communities

Further DAAT reports relating to these areas of work will be made available here.

All material is the copyright of Salford DAAT unless stated otherwise and may not be reproduced without the prior permission of Salford DAAT.

Needs assessment

Each year Salford DAAT is required to produce a needs assessment for adults and a separate one for young people. A needs assessment is a systematic evidenced based method of informing service provision in order to reduce the harms associated with substance misuse. It is part of a strategic process aimed at examining what the relative needs and harms are within different groups in Salford.

The key questions our needs assessments aim to answer are:

What do we know about our drug using populations?
What do we know about our problematic drug using population?
- (Home Office definition of a problematic drug user is 'heroin and / or crack cocaine user')
What do we know about our “treatment system”
What are the most significant gaps / areas of unmet need?