RAPt is the only provider of drug treatment programmes within HM Prison Service that has verifiable evidence of effectiveness.
RAPt was established in 1991 as the Addicted Diseases Trust when Peter Bond, a recovering alcoholic, observed the success of abstinence-based programmes in the United States.
He, Jonathan Wallace and Michael Meakin, set up a charity to meet the needs of drug addicts in UK prisons.
In 1992 RAPt opened the first intensive drug rehabilitation programme in a UK prison in a Portakabin at HMP Downview in Surrey.
The actor Sir Anthony Hopkins, an early supporter, provided much-needed funds and remains a patron.