Guidance for the measurement of drug treatment demand

Guidance for the measurement of drug treatment demand is a practical toolkit designed to help countries compile comparable data on the demand for treatment of drug problems. It looks at the issues to be addressed in order to reach an internationally consistent dataset on drug treatment demand. The guidelines include a three-stage model for building the foundations of a treatment demand information system, a core set of standard data items/codes and common definitions of treatment, drug use, treatment centres, clients and units of measurement.