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This is the third of a series of publications to inform drug service planning and provision by presenting results from the Department of Health’s Black and minority ethnic drug misuse needs assessment project that was conducted throughout England in three phases during 2000-2001, 2004-2005, and 2006. This project employed the Centre for Ethnicity and Health’s Community Engagement Model to train and support 179 community organisations to conduct the needs assessments (Fountain, Patel and Buffin, 2007; Winters and Patel, 2003). Each community organisation was also supported by a steering group whose membership included local drug service planners, commissioners and providers.