Drug and alcohol use as barriers to employment : final report

Part of the government’s strategy for ‘Tackling drug misuse’ is to assist ‘people who have graduated from drug treatment programmes into the labour market’ (UKDAC, n.d., p.26). In June 2002, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) commissioned the Centre for Research in Social Policy to undertake a study of the support needs of substance users, including drug, alcohol and drug and alcohol users, in Britain. The study also sought to estimate the number, and describe the demographic and socio-economic characteristics, of substance users who are claiming social security benefits and living in private households.