Abstract
Multi-disciplinary teams in treatment centres were envisaged by the Second Brain Committee in 1965 (1) as the most appropriate means of treating problem drug takers. Since then the problem has changed and expanded so that treatment facilities need to exist outside the hospital-based units, but the concept of treatment by a team of different professionals remains intact.
In Wolverhampton we have produced a local treatment unit that is firmly based on the multi-disciplinary concept; it is readily accessible to those who need its services; it is not staffed by full time ‘specialists' and yet has built into it safeguards against problems that ‘non-specialists' have produced.
The need for local treatment facilities will continue and it is possible that others may find Wolverhampton's experience helpful in planning their own provisions for problem drug takers.
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