text: Figure 10 shows that, rather than increasing in the current year, new presentations for 
  opiate/crack use have actually fallen slightly from 48,154 in 2013/14 to 47,241 in 2014/15, a 
  decrease of 1.9%. However, given that the early signs of previous opiate/crack use epidemics 
  have been missed before (see Morgan, 2014), and the potential social harm that a fresh 
  increase in new OCUs could cause, further analysis was conducted on the most recent data to 
  try and determine whether the apparent flattening in trends was actually caused by the early 
  stages of a significant surge in new users. 
  
  The treatment data was broken down by age to check whether the slight fall in total new 
  presentations in 2014/15 masked an increase in younger treatment presentations. This showed 
  instead that opiate/crack presentations by those aged 18-24 had fallen from 3,579 in 2013/14 to 
  3,021 in 2014/15, a fall of 15.6%. In other words, younger new presentations have fallen at a 
  faster rate over the last year than for those aged over-25. Furthermore, separate statistics 
  produced for those in treatment aged 18-and-under also show a fall in aggregate numbers in 
  treatment for opiates and crack. 