Residential rehabilitation bed capacity in Scotland, September 2024

Glossary

Residential rehabilitation: facilities offering programmes that aim to support individuals to attain an alcohol or drug-free lifestyle and be integrated into society, and that provide intensive psychosocial support and a structured programme of daily activities that residents are required to attend over a fixed period of time. This definition was developed by the Residential Rehabilitation Development Working Group. Further detail is available in the Pathways into, through and out of Residential Rehabilitation in Scotland report.

Residential Rehabilitation Development Working Group: established in June 2020 to advise Scottish Ministers on a programme of work to ensure the provision of drug and alcohol residential rehabilitation services across Scotland and to ensure that everyone who requires has access to it. More details, including the Group’s terms of reference, are available on the Residential Rehabilitation Development Working Group page on the Scottish Government website.

Facility: the term 'facility' in this report refers to a distinct individual operation delivering residential rehabilitation treatment. Individual providers of residential rehabilitation treatment may have more than one facility.

Bed capacity: maximum reported number of available placements, at any one time, for adults to receive residential rehabilitation treatment.

ADP: Alcohol and Drug Partnership. Scotland’s 30 Alcohol and Drug Partnerships bring together local partners including health boards, local authorities, police and voluntary agencies to coordinate the response to substance use issues. They are responsible for commissioning and developing local strategies for tackling problem alcohol and drug use and promoting recovery, based on an assessment of local needs.