Should win: Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway IACGMOOH wins an NTA every year and probably will again, fuelled by the antics of self-proclaimed countess Lady Colin Campbell.
The writer captures the feeling of Ginsberg's way of life in a description of a visit he paid to A.C. Bhaktived nta, a Haight-Ashbury swami.
The decline in the use of the most harmful drugs comes as the NTA claims that its drug treatment programme, which reaches 63% of heroin and crack cocaine users, has prevented an estimated 5m drug-related crimes a year, such as burglary, shoplifting and robbery.
The NTA says the treatment system has "helped to shrink the pool of heroin and crack addicts" by getting increasing numbers into treatment and effectively taking them off the streets and breaking their habits of entrenched drug use.
"It will become increasingly challenging to help these people get better, which in turn will make it more difficult to maintain the trend we have seen in recent years of rising numbers of people successfully leaving the treatment system," said the NTA.
But he warned that funding had to be maintained if this progress was to be consolidated when local authorities take over responsibility for commissioning drug treatment services next month and the NTA is merged into Public Health England.
