In 2024–25:
- For a client’s own alcohol or drug use:
- 3 in 4 treatment episodes ended within 3 months (78%, 167,772).
- The median duration of treatment episodes was 4 weeks (27 days).
- Counselling had the longest median duration (67 days), while assessment only had the shortest (3 days) (Figure 1).
- For someone else’s alcohol or drug use:
- 4 in 5 treatment episodes ended within 3 months (83%, 24,801).
- The median duration of treatment was two weeks (16 days) (tables Ov.9, Ov.10, Ov.11).
Between 2015–16 and 2024–25:
- For client’s own alcohol or drug use:
- Treatment episodes ending within 3 months remained the most common duration.
- The median duration of treatment episodes fluctuated, from 16 days in 2015–16, falling to 27 days in 2024–25.
- These trends were driven primarily by changes in the duration of support and case management and other treatment episodes.
- The median duration of counselling increased from 58 days to 67 days (Figure 1, tables Trt.12, Ov.11).
- For clients who received support for someone else’s alcohol or drug use:
- The median duration fluctuated more widely, rising from 14 days in 2018–19, peaking at 37 days in 2020–21, then falling to 16 days in 2024–25 (tables Trt.12, Ov.11).
- This fluctuation was driven primarily by decreases in support and case management treatment duration and increases in counselling duration.
