Drug treatment services declined over the last decade, with a real-terms funding cut of 40% across England between 2014–15 and 2021–22. The position varies widely across local areas, with 42 of 150 unitary authorities seeing falls of 50% or more.48 Dame Carol, Ms Wiseman and Mr Trace summarised the consequences of this, describing a broken system staffed by demoralised workers, with most of the protective structures (such as youth groups) that prevented young people from taking up drugs being destroyed or reduced.49 DHSC has allocated £488 million of new funding to local authorities over 2022–23 to 2024–25 but this has not replaced all of the funding that was lost.50 The JCDU told us the strategy was addressing some of the funding cuts and DHSC highlighted that, so far, local authorities were using strategy funding to “fix the foundations” and rebuild the drug treatment workforce.51