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by Change | 9 Jan 2009

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A rehab treatment centre could be forced to reduce the number of alcohol and drug abuse victims it helps due to budget cuts.

An alcohol and drug rehab clinic in Bury St Edmunds is facing financial difficulties after its government grant was reduced, a source reveals.

Suffolk's Drug and Alcohol Action Team (DAAT) anticipates a fall in its funding of £300,00 this year, with an additional £500,000 drop in 2010, potentially affecting the services it supplies, the Bury Free Press reports.

Chip Somers, the head of Focus12, which receives a portion of the money allocated to the organisation, states his group has already had to make one redundancy.

While he tells the news provider it will remain operational, he suggests drug and alcohol addiction victims may lose out from the cuts.

"Front-line services will continue to exist but we are, in effect, being asked to see more clients for less money," he explains.

According to the source, Mr Somers says donations have "completely dried up" as even in the good times the drug rehab clinics cause has lacked the public appeal of other third-sector groups.

Charity Alcohol Concern recently called for more funding to be provided for addiction treatment centres.

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