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and its role was to deliver the ambitions of the 1999 Drug Strategy, and its 2002 update, for a much-expanded drug treatment system with quicker access. The agency itself did not provide treatment, but worked in partnership with local commissioners and treatment providers to improve the quality of services, promote

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and improve the skills of the drug treatment workforce. It also monitored the performance of the drug treatment sector through the National Drug Treatment Monitoring System
NDTMS
. Afte
reviewing all its arm’s-length bodies
in July 2010, the government decided it would cease to exist as a statutory organization. Its key functions transferred to

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on 1 April 2013.

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