Alcohol Help

Broadreach, Plymouth
Alcohol and drug addition treatment

About us:

At Broadreach House, we believe that dependence affects all of us, not just the dependent person, and we endeavour to offer support on every level. We provide a holistic approach to treatment, providing the right conditions, treatment and support on an ongoing basis to enable those affected by dependence to make major and lasting changes to their lives.

We understand that you are an individual with a huge potential for changing your life. Our committed and dedicated staff will work with you, enabling you to address your dependence along with other practical and emotional issues that are obstructing your progress, so that you can build a life you can be proud of.

We offer a welcoming, positive, respectful environment in which you will receive all the support you need.

We offer a full range of services, including detox and rehabilitation, education, training and resettlement, and full aftercare.

Our reputation for excellence is soundly based on a commitment to developing evidence-based programmes, continual monitoring of ongoing research, and staff training.

We consistently achieve one of the best completion rates in the country, and offer clients the best available opportunity to overcome dependence on drugs or alcohol.

The atmosphere at Broadreach House is warm, supportive and welcoming. We approach each client’s treatment holistically and collaboratively – each client is involved fully in treatment planning to ensure the best chance of lasting success. All our treatment methods are evidence based, and this is clearly supported by our high success rate.

Contact Details:

Broadreach
465 Tavistock Road
Plymouth
Devon
PL6 7HE

Telephone: 01752 790000

Hillingdon Drug & Alcohol Services, Uxbridge
Health and social services service providing treatment for all people with drug and alcohol problems

About us:

Hillingdon Drug & Alcohol Services (HDAS) are a combined health and social services service providing treatment for all people with drug and alcohol problems in Hillingdon, their families and carers.

We are a large multi-disciplinary team providing a comprehensive and holistic service. HDAS offer both a drop-in service and an appointment service.

Open: Office: Mon: 10am - 7pm, Tue - Thu: 9am - 5pm, Fri: 9am - 3.30.
No appointment: Mon: 2.30pm - 6.30pm, Tues-Thurs: 1.30pm - 4.30pm, Fri: 11am - 2pm

Info: This service offers help with substance abuse problems (alcohol, prescribed, solvents) and strives for harm minimisation and/or abstinence by dealing with the underlying psychological problems of clients.

Services: Community / out-patient detox, Complementary therapy, Counselling, Healthcare, Pregnancy / parenthood services, Prescribing, Prison work.

Open Access Services:
Advice and Information;

Drop-in Services;
Motivational Interviewing;
Needle Exchange;
Low threshold Prescribing;
Liason Service for Acute Medical and Psychiatirc Sector;
Assessment / Care management;
Arrest Referral Schemes;

Structured Community-based Services:
Care planning
counselling/psychotherapy;
Structured community-based detoxification;
Structured prescribing/Methadone maintenance;
Structured aftercare programme;
DTTO programme;

Specific Services for :
Children/young people;
Families/relatives;
People in the Criminal Justice system;
People with mental health issues;
Stimulant users;

Contact Details:

Hillingdon Drug & Alcohol Services
Old Bank House
64 High Street
Uxbridge
Middlesex
UB8 1JP

Telephone: 01895 207777

Brighton Family Service, Brighton
Specialist family service for parents overcoming alcohol and drug problems

About us:

The Brighton Family Service provides a residential drug and alcohol rehabilitation service for up to 17 adults and children, offering families spacious living and high quality accommodation and décor.

The service is situated in a pleasant residential part of Brighton, one to two miles from the seafront. The building comprises of one self-contained flat and six bed sitting rooms with en suite, including shared cooking and laundry facilities.

Communal areas include a resident’s lounge, combined training and computer room, Ofsted registered under 5 crèche, garden and external soft play area for the children.

What does the Brighton Family Service aim to achieve?

The Service caters for parents who wish to address their substance misuse problem whilst continuing to live with and care for their children.

The stable and supportive environment enables:

• Individual family members to work towards identifying and addressing their own emotional needs / problems
• The family to work together, rebuilding relationships between individual members and the family as a whole
• Parents to become drug and / or alcohol free
• Parents to resolve outstanding legal practical and child protection issues

Parents do not have to be drug free on admission. A detoxification service is offered with monitoring and advice on gradual withdrawal programmes. This enables parents to become drug and alcohol free without separating families. Emphasis is placed on meeting children’s emotional needs and enabling adults to develop new parenting skills.

What kind of help and services can I expect?

The service offers a comprehensive health and social care package to meet the individual needs of parents and children within a semi-structured programme.

Therapeutic approaches include psychodynamic and cognitive behavioural therapy and motivational interviewing.

Adult services include:
• Individual care plan
• Detoxification service
• Individual key work sessions
• Peer support and community groups
• Therapeutic groups focusing on specific issues e.g. Addiction, Parenting and Self Development.
• Educational / skills based groups
• Adults are encouraged to participate in voluntary work
• Practical advice e.g. housing and budgeting
• 10 and 20 week review reports including full written reports
• Liaison with external agencies to secure additional services
• Access to sporting / recreational activities
• Regular visits to local leisure centres
• Alternative and complementary therapies

Children services / activity
• Individual care plan
• Regular monitoring
• Registered crèche for 0 – 5 year olds
• Child development work and therapeutic input
• Access to local schools, nursery or mother and toddler groups
• Supervised parent and child play activities
• Baby gym / play schemes
• Encouragement of outside sporting activities
• After school activities maybe held at the service
• Craft workshops
• Music groups
• Individual family key work sessions
• Regular link works, which include practical advice
• 10 and 20 week reviews held at the service including full written reports

Family services include:
• Regular progress reviews involving social services where appropriate
• Promotion of healthy living as a family
• Addressing family relationship issues
• Encouraging residents to further develop parenting skills whilst empowering them to introduce routines and boundaries in a family setting
• Discharge reports provided at the end of a placement
• Family outings to promote family relationships and parenting skills
• Onward referral to appropriate agencies when families leave

Contact Details:

Brighton Family Service
160 Dyke Road
Brighton
East Sussex
BN1 5PA

Telephone: 01273 558 645

Acacia House, Woking
Supported accommodation for persons committed to recovery from alcohol or drug misuse

About us:

6-bed supported accommodation for single men and women aged 18 to 65 who are committed to recovery from alcohol or drug misuse. 6-month to 2-year stay.

Supported housing for people, both male and female, who are making a genuine commitment to recover from their alcohol misuse. Support services includeing: group work, structured key-working, move-on meetings and general advice and information.

Area: West Surrey

Referral: Referrals are expected to come from either voluntary or statutory organisations who are involved in either housing or social welfare etc. All referrals should be made directly to the project.

Contact Details:

Acacia House
Stonham Housing Association Ltd
1 Acacia Avenue
Woking
Surrey
GU22 0BE

Telephone: 01483 740774

The Bridge Project, Stornoway
Towards achieving alcohol and drug free lives.

About us:

This service is provided in peoples’ homes or at agreed NHS premises, or other ‘safe’ place, by the Counselling Support Worker serving Berneray, North and South Uist, Benbecula, Barra and Vatersay.

Aims & Objectives:
We aim to support individuals in
· Making lifestyle changes towards achieving alcohol and drug free lives
· Recovering from physical, mental and emotional harm to themselves and others resulting from drug/alcohol misuse
· Achieving better life quality, health and independence
· Nurturing fresh hope for a better future, and developing skills to avoid relapse and maintain recovery

Care Plans:
Service users are individually assessed and care plans tailored to their needs. They will have input into the creation, implementation and reviews of the plan.

Family Involvement:
Confidentiality is paramount, so family involvement will only be a part of the care plan where the service user expressly wishes this to be the case.

Community Involvement:
Wherever possible, the service user will be encouraged to become involved with suitable activities offered by other agencies or ongoing in the community.

Withdrawal:
This will usually take place in hospital, or at home under the supervision of a GP, CPN or Community Nurse.

Treatment Programme:
Programmes will be individually tailored, and may include the use of Rickter Scale assessments, Person Centred Counselling, CBT, Motivational Interviewing, Anger Management, AA Twelve Step programme, SMART programme.

Manager:
The Service Manager works in the Lifestyle Centre in Stornoway, from where a similar service is provided to the inhabitants of the isles of Lewis and Harris.

Staff:
The Service is provided by one Counselling Support Worker working from home (thirty hours per week).

Admission:
Individuals may refer themselves, or be referred by medical staff, social workers, the police, the courts, schools, other agencies, family members or friends, Ministers or Priests.

Cost:
The service is financed by Western Isles Council, Western Isles Health Board and the local Alcohol, Drugs and Smoking Action Team. It is free of charge to service users.

Contact Details:

The Bridge Project
Lifestyle Centre
Town Hall
Point Street
Stornoway
Isle of Lewis
HS1 2XF

Telephone: 01851 701010

Windmill Drug & Alcohol Team, Chertsey
Assessment, prescribing services and one-to-one counselling.

About us:

A multi-disciplinary team providing assessment, prescribing services and one-to-one psychodynamic and cognitive behavioural counselling.

Newly opened in-patient and day patient unit, out patient groups in Woking and Weybridge.

Teaching, training and liaison with statutory and non statutory agencies. Hepatitis and HIV vaccination pre/post counselling and testing.

Information, advice, counselling also offered for families and friends.

Contact Details:

Windmill Drug & Alcohol Team
Abraham Cowley Unit
Holloway Hill
Chertsey
Surrey
KT16 0AE

Telephone: 01932 723309

Bosence Farm Community, Hayle
Temporary supported housing for individuals in active recovery from alcohol / drug dependency.

About us:

The emphasis is on learning to live life without resorting to chemical / alcohol use and on living as a community with residents sharing meals, domestic tasks and time together, with support provided by staff. The aim is for residents to achieve on-going recovery and gain the life and social skills to live independently.

The length of stay (maximum 1 year) at Bosence is dependent on the needs of the individual.

What Does Bosence Farm Community Offer?

* A friendly and stable living environment, in which people address their substance misuse problems, under the Supporting People Programme.

* The community enables residents to access a range of support including local groups of Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous.

* The staff provide 24-hour cover, and are available to residents for advice, counseling, and support. Each resident has a member of staff as a key-worker.

* In addition, the community also run, whenever possible, a range of activities, including gardening, pottery, art, Qi Gong, Aural Acupuncture, woodturning and needlework.

* Registration with a local GP Practice ensures that residents’ medical needs are met both during and after their stay.

* Staff will provide information on all the services available through the Substance Misuse Providers in Cornwall, and assist residents to access those services, where appropriate.

* The Farm offers an opportunity for residents to examine and change their behaviours, including those that may lead to offending.

* Staff liaise with supervising probation officers as required.

* Rules and boundaries exist to ensure the well being and safety of all residents and the project as a whole.

* Staff advise residents on resettlement and provide aftercare support where appropriate; we are fortunate to have a dedicated worker who deals with all resettlement and aftercare issues. This service is primarily funded by the Cornwall D.A.A.T..

Contact Details:

Bosence Farm Community
69 Bosence Road
Townshend
Hayle
Cornwall
TR27 6AN

Telephone: 01736 850006

Slough: Cascade
Clinically based counselling and treatment for alcohol misuse.

About us:

Open: Mon - Fri 9am - 5pm

Info: Drug and alcohol service for young people and adults.

Services include: Access to other services, Assessment, Brief interventions, Community care assessment, Consultancy and training, Dual diagnosis, Family and / or couple counselling and support, Group work, Home visits, Information and advice, Key worker, Outreach activities, Relapse prevention, Telephone counselling / helpline, GP advice clinics, Hepatitis B & C Screening, Psychiatric assessment and interventions, workplace services.

The waiting period is approximately 3 weeks and there are an average of 6 sessions for counselling.

There are aftercare services.

Interpreter services could be arranged along with leaflets. Some leaflets available in Punjabi, Hindi, Urdu.

Contact Details:

Cascade
Oak House
Upton Hospital
Albert Street
Slough
Berkshire
SL1 2BJ

Telephone: 01753 821789

Inverness: Beechwood House
Beechwood provides services for individuals with substance misuse problems.

About us:

The Beechwood Complex is situated in Beechwood Business Park, on a main bus route within easy access of the centre of Inverness.

Beechwood is seen as an integral part of the overall strategy, within the Highlands, to provide services for those individuals with substance misuse problems.

Accommodation
This service offers up to 8 places. The Designated Place has been established under the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 1980. Places are offered as an alternative to custody for those who have been arrested for public drunkenness offences requiring a place of safety to regain sobriety.

Beds are available for respite and assistance with G.P. initiated detox.

Services

Aims & Objectives
It aims to assist individuals to return to their communities without their dependency on alcohol or drugs.

Outline of Services
Beechwood incorporates a number of services in the town of Inverness.

The services are offered to individuals who have a difficulty in managing their use of alcohol and/ or drugs.

Rehabilitation Service
This residential service provides up to 15 on-suite places in a safe, comfortable alcohol/ drug free environment.

Programme
Through a structured programme incorporating group-work, and structured use of free time, we will assist service users to confront issues in their lives which have contributed to, or resulted in, their misuse of alcohol and/ or drugs. There are two sequential programmes. All residents are initially accepted for four weeks. During this time an individual will undertake a number of activities that will contribute to their assessment and identify solutions. For those who require it, a further 10-week programme is available.

Family Involvement
This will depend very much on the resident’s wishes and circumstances. Some clients prefer to have their time in the Service as a time away from the family, especially if they are felt to be a hindrance in their recovery.

Families are encouraged to visit the Service within designated times. Clients are encouraged to establish contact with relatives, if this is part of their wishes. Occasionally, other family members are involved in Key Working.

Community Involvement
Residents are encouraged to attend AA meetings, which take place in the community. Voluntary work is part of our ten-week programme and this is to encourage people to get back out into the community and regain confidence and social skills.

There is a friends group attached to the Service and they often come in and spend time with the residents and they help to organise special activities, such as Burns night suppers.

Facilities

Other Services include:
An after care service is offered to those returning to the community and requiring on-going support and assistance.

Management & Staffing

Management
The Service Manager has overall responsibility for the running of the Service but works closely with senior staff. There are three Team Leaders and one Administrator.

Staff
Beechwood staff group is a multi disciplinary team including people with backgrounds in social work, nursing and social care.

Admission Procedure

Criteria
There are two parts to the Service at Beechwood House and both parts have there own specific criteria for admission.
· The Designated Place has 4 beds, which are for a maximum of 24-hours. Clients have to be ‘drunk & incapable’ and must be referred by either the Police or by a GP/ medical person.
· Rehabilitation Clients are initially assessed for a 4-week programme. Anyone can make a referral to the Rehabilitation Centre. Clients must be sober and have been through detox.

Costs
Beechwood is funded mainly by Highland Council Social Work Services and is supported by Highland Health Board.

Referrals Procedure
Referrals have expanded to include Medical based referrals, for example, G.P’s, CPN’s, Accident & Emergency etc.

Additional Information

Activities
There are a number of activities available in the Service for the clients, which include:
· Badminton
· Five-a-side football
· Craft & quiz nights

Every Friday there is a Service day out and the residents choose an activity that they would like to try. Activities include:
· Roller bowl
· Swimming
· Golf
· Walking
· Visiting places of interest

Contact Details:

Beechwood House
71 Old Perth Road
Raigmore
Inverness
Highland
IV2 3JH

Telephone: 01463 711335

High Wycombe: Addiction Counselling Trust
Free and confidential drug and alcohol service to people living in Buckinghamshire.

About us:

We provide advice, information, assessment and counselling to anyone living in Buckinghamshire who is concerned about their own or someone else’s alcohol or drug use. Our staff are all fully trained and experienced counsellors.

How do we work?

We listen to your concerns and try to hlep you make the choices that are best for you. We won’t judge you, lecture you or scare you. We will treat any information you give as confidential except with your consent or if either yourself or someone else is at risk of harm. If we are unable to help you, we will refer you to an organisation that might be better able to meet your needs.

Open door policy - will give an appointment to anyone, any age. Open: Monday - Friday 9am - 5pm

Contact Details:

Addiction Counselling Trust
Sefton House
Unit 5
The Valley Centre
Gordon Road
High Wycombe
Buckinghamshire
HP13 6EQ

Telephone: 01296 565674