NDTMS North East is one of the nine National Drug (and Alcohol) Treatment Monitoring System regional centres across England. It operates from within the North East Public Health Observatory (NEPHO) which is located at University of Durham , Queen's Campus, Stockton on Tees.

The purpose of the NDTMS centres is to obtain detailed accurate and timely information for reporting drug and alcohol treatment activity.

NEPHO has a Service Level Agreement (SLA) with the National Treatment Agency (NTA), in place since April 2004, to run the collection of NDTMS data from across the North East region and provide support, guidance, analysis and training. Young people in specialist alcohol and drug treatment have always been part of the NDTMS database; however, from 1st April 2008 the database was expanded to include adult specialist alcohol treatment and the SLA for 2008-11 incorporates this requirement.

In the North East, data is collected from over 160 agencies across 12 Drug (and Alcohol) Action Team areas.