The court has decided that you have a problem with drugs and that you need help to deal with it. You have agreed to undergo treatment. An assessment will have been carried out before you were sentenced to decide the right sort of treatment for you.

About the Drug Rehabilitation Requirement

You will take part in a drug rehabilitation programme. The programme might last for up to three years if you are on a Community Order or up to two years if you are on a Suspended Sentence Order. This might involve counselling, substitute prescribing or attending a day centre. You may have agreed to treatment in a residential rehabilitation centre. You wil be tested regularly. To monitor your use of drugs.

Your Drug Rehabilitation Requirement starts straight away after you are sentenced.

The person responsible for your sentence (your Responsible Officer) will discuss the details of your Drug Rehabilitation Requirement with you.

Note: Drug treatment and testing under a Drug Rehabilitation Requirement is an order of the court and you must co-operate with it.

 About Court Review Hearings

Unless you have been told otherwise, the court will want to review the progress you are making with your Drug Rehabilitation Requirement. This will require you to attend a court hearing.

This court will decide how you are doing by hearing about your progress and by reading written reports. The reports will include the results of drug testing and the views of the people providing your treatment.

Your Responsible Officer will make sure you understand how these hearings work.

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