Welcome to Sussed Professionals

Sussed Professionals is designed for anyone who comes into contact with clients or patients who are misusing or affected by drugs and alcohol. The site is particularly useful for drug and alcohol professionals and teachers. Sussed Professionals is the one-stop web resource for access to: local committee papers; local and national strategy documents; news; teaching resources; newsletters; and our member's Eforum.

Sussed Professionals is also the home of Brighton and Hove Drug & Alcohol Action Team (DAAT). The DAAT has a membership consisting of senior managers from the City Council, the Police, the Primary Care Trust, Probabation and from Treatment service providers. This partnership, together with the partnership for Crime and Disorder Reduction [CDRP], meets four times a year.

The DAAT has a remit to oversee the delivery at a local level of the Government's ten year National Drug Strategy "Tackling Drugs to Build a Better Britain" [1998] and the National Alchohol Harm Reduction Strategy [2004]. The local delivery is taken forward by a number of groups responsible for specific areas of the strategy.