Adult and Community Services
Drug and Alcohol Action Team
The Barking and Dagenham Drug and Alcohol Action Team is responsible for delivering the governments 2008 10 year strategy 'Drugs: protecting families and communities' on a local level, and is an executive body with representatives from all the main authorities (Police, Probation, Primary Care Trust, local authority and the Fire Brigade), responsible for tackling problems associated with use of drugs and alcohol locally.
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The Drug and Alcohol Action Team's key objectives are:
- Ensuring fair access to quality substance misuse treatment services
- Working in partnership to reduce drug related crime
- Empowering communities to reduce drug related harm
- Preventing today's young people from becoming tomorrows
- Problematic drug users
The Drug and Alcohol Action Team will achieve these objectives by focusing on:
- Cutting drug related crime and antisocial behaviour
- Cutting harm caused to young people by substance misuse
- Increasing the number of drug users making a positive contribution to society
- Expanding and improving drug treatment services
- Cutting the number of families devastated by drug use
The Drug and Alcohol Action Team also have responsibility for commissioning drug treatment services across the borough that includes adult treatment, young people's treatment, education and prevention, and criminal justice along with having responsibility to make strategic decision on expenditure.
The Drug and Alcohol Action Team now has a fully integrated substance misuse treatment system to meet the needs of drug and alcohol users, their families, partners and carers as well as services for young people who may be experiencing problems with drug use.
Treatment pathways for substance misuse and alcohol in Barking and Dagenham 
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