Alcohol Help

Bristol: ADAPT - Alcohol and Drug Addiction
ADAPT is a leading charity in the field of drug and alcohol addiction.

About us:

The charity, ADAPT, is committed to the treatment, recovery and growth of any person addicted to drugs or alcohol, whether resident in its specialist centres, prison or the community.

Through the provision of non judgemental care and wide ranging support, ADAPT seeks to assist all to acquire the means and motivation to become independent, contributing citizens. At every stage, priority is given to the circumstances, needs, dignity and diversity of those requiring our help.

Duration of programme
Detoxification programmes are designed to fit the particular needs of each individual patient. The primary programme is from ten to twelve weeks. Extended care lasts twelve weeks. All programmes may be extended if the client can benefit.

Primary structured treatment programme, individually tailored.
The main components are group work, one-to-one counselling and a range of specialist modules and alternative therapies. The timetable has been designed to provide a balanced programme of structured activity, therapeutic interventions, skill acquisition, daily lectures, basic household chores, recreation and relaxation. Individual care plans are developed between the client, key worker, multidisciplinary team and referrer.

Detoxification
Clients are not required to be substance free prior to admission as there are 24- hour medical units on site at both centres, staffed by fully trained nurses and doctors. Individually tailored phased withdrawal programmes are available for all substances, including alcohol, opiates, tranquillisers and stimulants. They are administered on-site by doctors and nursing staff. People on detox are immediately engaged in the rehabilitation programme. No time is wasted.

Alternative therapies
The range of alternative therapies varies between the centres. It may include art therapy, aromatherapy, yoga, massage, tai chi, reiki, auricular acupuncture and use of the physio-acoustic chair. This latter is particularly helpful in reducing the physical effects of withdrawal.

Extended care
This is available for clients who need to bridge the gap between residential care and re-entry to the wider community. Whilst still undergoing therapeutic care, they will be assisted with forming pathways into independent living. The programme enables the acquisition of essential life and social skills, education, training, work opportunities, reconnecting with family, relapse prevention, establishing external support networks and resettlement.

Aftercare
Weekly aftercare sessions are available at each centre for former clients remaining in the local area.

Sports and recreation
Both centres provide a range of sporting and recreational facilities, including well-stocked libraries. Visits are arranged to outside places of interest and there are regular swimming trips. The Diana has its own large sports hall and gym.

Nutrition
Many people come to our centres in poor physical condition. Part of our job is to deal with this, not only medically but also by ensuring they receive a balanced, appetising and nutritious diet. Meals are prepared on site by our own staff and all religious and dietary requirements can be met.

Female lounge
While the main lounges are communal, both centres provide a quiet lounge, with TV, for the exclusive use of female residents.

Smoking
Both centres have lounges where clients may smoke. Smoking is prohibited in all other areas.

Friends and family
ADAPT recognises the importance to clients of retaining or rebuilding links with friends and family. After a settling in period, visits can take place on Sundays. Toys and games are available for visiting children.

Contact Details:

ADAPT - Alcohol and Drug Addiction
Barley Wood
Long Lane
Wrington
Bristol
Somerset
BS40 5SA

Telephone: 01934 863 355

Newbury: The Edge
Young People’s Drug and Alcohol Service for West Berkshire

About us:

We are a team working across the whole of West Berkshire. We work with young people up to the age of 21 and their families / carers who are affected by drugs or alcohol.

The Edge is a really friendly environment where young people can feel relaxed and safe. The Edge is situated in Newbury town centre, next to the canal and Victoria Park.

In the summer it’s like being on holiday with all the swans, ducks and barges going by as well as people sitting outside for lunch, canoeing and enjoying the sunshine.

We have a Playstation, access to internet, a television, stereo and refreshments so it’s easy to feel relaxed and safe.

We have a fantastic team of workers who have years of experience and choose to work with young people because it’s what we most enjoy.

Confidentiality

We try to keep everything discussed between you and The Edge exactly that…
between you and The Edge… However, if we are really worried about your safety we may give someone else information in order to protect you. This happens very rarely and we will always try to let you know first. If you want to know more about this then just ask us.

Fairness

We try to get to know everyone for themselves and not to treat anyone differently because of who they are or where they come from. We expect everyone to do this as much as they can when they are at The Edge. We know that people do not always get treated fairly in ordinary life. At The Edge we will do something about it. We think about what people say and what they do.

Consent

At The Edge we believe that young people have the right to decide for themselves what treatment/ work they would like to do with us. That means that you do not have to have a parent’s permission to come to The Edge. We do have to make sure that you are able to fully understand what work you will be doing here. However, if we feel that you are having difficulty understanding anything we may have to get a parents permission. Also if you are under 13 by law, your parent/carer has to agree to any work you do with us.

Contact Details:

The Edge
Waldegrave Place
Northbrook Street
Newbury
Berkshire
RG14 1DS

Telephone: 01635 582002

London: The Awareness Centre
The Awareness Centre Addiction Recovery Programme

About us:

The Awareness Centre Addiction Recovery Programme is a non-residential programme for alcoholics and drug addicts in recovery as well as for those who engage in destructive compulsions. The Awareness Centre offers a safe, drug-free environment in order to provide an intensive, holistic programme of rehabilitation that aims to equip clients with the cognitive and behavioural skills as well as emotional resolve to live a healthy, addiction and compulsion-free life.

Based upon the 12-step treatment model, the programme integrates elements drawn from motivational enhancement therapy and cognitive behavioural therapy, bodywork and humanistic psychotherapy offering a holistic approach to recovery and lasting change.

Eligibility: Men and women over eighteen years of age who are in recovery from alcohol, drug and gambling addiction as well as other behavioural compulsions (such as sexual compulsions and food issues) and who want to build a healthy and fulfilling future while remaining abstinent.

Clients will be assessed by The Awareness Centre Recovery team for willingness and ability to positively engage in all aspects of the programme. Clients will also need to have been drug and alcohol free for 24-hours before joining the programme.

Referrals are welcomed from Social Services, Probation, the National Health Service, voluntary and private sectors and self-referrals.

Programme Ethic: We recognise that clients’ substance dependency and compulsions develop in response to life experiences that impact upon clients on emotional, cognitive, behavioural and physical levels. In order for healthy, lasting change to occur, each of these levels requires effective and co-ordinated intervention. Consequently, the programme’s wide-ranging holistic remit has been developed to comprehensively address all levels of clients’ lives.

The Awareness Centre has integrated the 12-step treatment method within an over-arching humanistic framework. The programme structure is thus grounded in the 12-step treatment method, developing a philosophy of addiction as a ‘dis-ease’; a lifestyle choice involving emotional, cognitive, behavioural and physical patterns that can quickly develop into a rigid and seductive routine that individuals feel powerless over; a self-perpetuating cycle that makes change difficult to accept or begin. Consequently, we recognise that clients require support to challenge and change their lives.

The programme aims to provide such support. Each of the cognitive, emotional and physical interventions developed are geared first towards challenging existing rigid behavioural patterns by developing awareness of such patterns, the defensive motivation behind them and the consequences of clients’ actions. Clients’ autonomous ability to take responsibility for and control over their lives is encouraged and supported and, nurturing clients’ desire for healthy and more fulfilling lives, the programme then supports clients in the development of alternative choices and, finally, in taking practical steps to implement tangible and lasting changes in their lives.

Contact Details:

The Awareness Centre
41 Abbeville Road
Clapham
London

SW4 9JX

Telephone: 020 8673 4545

Newbury: Turning Point
Structured day programme provides community-based intervention to people addicted to alcohol.

About us:

The Turning Point T2 West Berkshire structured day programme provides intensive community-based intervention to people addicted to drugs or alcohol.

Service users can participate before, during or after other forms of drug specialist care, including detoxification or substitute prescribing.

The open access harm minimisation service provides information and advice, ‘drop-in sessions’, needle exchange, an aftercare programme, group-based interventions, support to parents using drugs, blood-borne virus advice, late opening, assessment and referral within Turning Point and to other agencies, key-work and care planning.

The outreach team provides support and advice to rural areas aiming to encourage service users to access the services provided in urban linkUP areas.

In addition a progress2work scheme helps people into employment or training.

Referrals to this Service: People can refer themselves to this service or can be referred by a professional.

Contact Details:

Turning Point
1 Station Road
Newbury
Berkshire
RG14 7LP

Telephone: 01635 237 795

Scarborough: Ark House Treatment Centre
The Aim of Ark House is to ‘Enable Recovery’ from Alcohol / Drug dependency

About us:

Ark House is a residential Treatment Centre for Alcohol/ drug dependant clients.

The treatment supplied at Ark House is a comprehensive program known as 12 Step’s Therapy.

The 12 Step Therapy is a program of instructional and self help materials, relying on following the original 12 steps of Alcoholic anonymous. Hence 12 Step Therapy is not a new form of treatment. It is a clear concise and sequenced explanation of the 12 Step’s. The service user (with help of structured lectures and groups) will with his/her assigned counsellor be guided through the steps to reach specified goals. This facilitates an understanding of the problem, the solution to the problem, and the plan of action to change that leads to recovery.

Ark House helps Service Users to get clean and sober from alcohol and drugs byusing a proven program that is readily available to them for continuing support after they leave Ark House. No new theories. No changes in direction. A continuous recovery through the 12 steps, pure and simple.

Services We Provide

* 24 Hour Residential Care: Rehabilitation Treatment including;

* 1/1 Counselling
* Lectures
* Group Work
* Course work & Homework
* Aftercare Sessions held every Monday for all residents past and present

Primary care

• Accommodation
• Full board
• Individual dietary needs
• 24/ hour care Minimum 2 staff members
• Morning lectures
• Afternoon groups
• 1/1 counselling (as required) As much as required
• Video and audiotapes
• Overseeing of therapeutic duties
• Recreational activities
• Transport to and from AA/NA meetings if required
• Assistance with outside issues
• Dedicated mens & womans groups
• Living Skills

Extended care

• Accommodation
• Full board although you may be asked to cook.
• Morning groups structured around coping/relapse prevention.
• 1/1 counselling on specific needs
• Transport to various night time activities
• Afternoons dedicated -to looking at outside issues and developing new hobbies and interests.
• Voluntary work and looking to future job seeking
• Activities and outside AA/NA meetings encouraged and assisted with.

Contact Details:

Ark House Treatment Centre
15 Valley Road
Scarborough
North Yorkshire
YO11 2 L

Telephone: 01723 371869

Basingstoke: Options
Alcohol counselling service

About us:

This alcohol counselling service has the treatment goals of both abstinence and controlled drinking.

Service Offered: Advocacy, Befriending, Brief interventions, Day programmes, Dual diagnosis, Family and / or couple counselling, Group work, Home visits, Information and advice, Key worker, Medical assessment, Psychotherapy, Relapse prevention, Self-help, Schools education / workshops, Telephone counselling / Helpline, Aftercare / Follow-up and a Structured programme.

Finnish and Swedish are spoken. Area: North & Mid Hampshire. Referral: Self

Open: Mon - Fri: 9am - 3pm, plus Tue eve: 7pm - 9pm

Contact Details:

Options
51 Hackwood Road
Basingstoke
Hampshire
RG21 3AE

Telephone: 01256 843203

Bristol: Alcohol Misuse Service
To promote sensible drinking and to reduce the harm caused by alcohol.

About us:

The Alcohol Misuse Service is funded by the two Bristol Primary Care Trusts and Bristol Social Services and Health and offers a comprehensive service to people in the city experiencing problems with alcohol. A specialist Gay and Lesbian service is also funded by the South Gloucestershire Drug Action Team. The service offers a range of interventions including:

* Advice and information
* Counselling
* Day care
* Drop ins
* Relapse prevention
* Support for families
* Referral links to NHS specialist services
* GP surgeries outreach services
* Gay and lesbian specialist service.

The service is provided by a small team of experienced and qualified practitioners together with a group of 20 or more volunteers most of whom are either qualified counsellors or counsellors undertaking training at Diploma level.

Services are provided at both the Alcohol Misuse Service premises and at a number of outreach sites either GP surgeries or health centres. The service works closely with the Robert Smith Unit (RSU) the NHS specialist alcohol service and recently Alcohol Misuse Service and the RSU were awarded a new contract by the Bristol South and West PCT to deliver an enhanced alcohol service in South Bristol.

The service has two primary goals to promote sensible drinking and to reduce the harm caused by alcohol. Referrals can be made to the service by professionals or by self referral. Work is both individual and group based.

Contact Details:

Alcohol Misuse Service
2 Kings Court
King Street
Bristol
Avon
BS1 4HW

Telephone: 0117 929 3028

Basingstoke Community Alcohol Service
Confidential and effective therapeutic service for people with alcohol and drug problems.

About us:

Open: Mon, Tue, Thurs, Fri: 9am - 5pm Wed: 9am - 9.30pm Open bank holidays.

The Community Alcohol and Drug Service is part of the Speciality Care Group of the Loddon NHS Trust.

The aims of our Service are to provide a confidential and effective therapeutic service for people with alcohol and drug problems, including support for relatives and friends. We also aim to increase public awareness of safe drinking levels and drug usage, thus reducing their harmful effects.

The service is located in Rooksdown House, Southern Road, Basingstoke and has additional satellite clinics in Bordon, Alton, Tadley and Hook.

The Service offers a wide and flexible range of treatment options, tailored to the individual or family’s needs, which include:

* Treatment Programmes
* Information
* Advice
* Full medical and psychological Assessment
* A Day Detoxification Service
* Individual Counselling sessions
* Group Work in a Day Hospital setting
* Couples Therapy/Family Therapy
* Anxiety/Stress Management
* Relaxation Techniques
* Solution Focussed Relapse Prevention
* Friends/Relatives Support
* Evening Support Groups
* Continuing Aftercare

How to Get Help: Referrals are accepted from any agency, GP’s and individuals.

Info: Day detoxification service, total abstinence, controlled drinking.

Services Offered: Access to other services, Assessment, Befriending, Brief interventions, Consultancy and training, Day care, Day programmes, Dual diagnosis, Family and/or couple counselling, Family support, Group work, Home visits, information and advice, Key worker, Medical assessment.

Outreach activities, Psychiatric assessment, Psychiatric interventions, Relapse prevention, Schools education/workshop, Social skills training, Structured programmes, Telephone counselling.

Helpline Training for organisations, Community and home detox. They also offer a monthly support group plus one-to-one counselling. Disabled Facilities. French spoken.

Contact Details:

Basingstoke Community Alcohol Service
Fairfields House
8 Fairfields Road
Basingstoke
Hampshire
RG21 3DR

Telephone: 01256 818210

Portsmouth: ANA Treatment Centres
ANA offers a twelve week abstinence based primary treatment for alcoholism and drug addiction.

About us:

In addition we offer individually tailored detoxification programmes. Our aim is to help our clients rebuild their lives, to gain in confidence and self-worth and to really believe that they can live a healthy, responsible and productive life, free of addictive substances.

Our Programme is modular, flexible and features increasing levels of choice and opportunities for personal development as clients progress through. We recognise that every client has different needs and will move individually through treatment and into recovery.

ANA facilitates recovery through support and respect, working in collaboration with our clients. Care planning, group work and one to one key worker sessions all feature, together with a life skills programme, women & men’ groups, alternative therapies and optional secondary programme. Our programme combines a number of philosophies including the Twelve Step approach and is non-denominational in nature.

ANA - Treatment Philosophy

ANA’s treatment philosophy is based on the following principles:

* Abstinence leads to recovery

* A Twelve Step / multi disciplinary programme supports recovery and minimises relapse

* Addiction is an illness and personal responsibility can only be taken for recovery once clients have accepted it as such

* ANA reflects an atmosphere of respect, support and understanding where clients will begin to believe in themselves and each other.

* When trust replaces mistrust, we can work together towards recovery.

* Best practice must be captured and transferred into the programme on a continuous basis

* Discrimination on any grounds other than those outlined in our code of conduct is unacceptable and will not be tolerated

Contact Details:

ANA Treatment Centres
Fleming House
Waterworks Road
Farlington
Portsmouth
Hampshire
PO6 1NJ

Telephone: 023 9237 3433

Camberley: Acorn Community Drug and Alcohol Service
An assessment, intervention & referral service for drug / alcohol users their family & friends.

About us:

Acorn Community Drug & Alcohol Services are run by a multi- disciplinary team, who offer a broad range of services to help reduce the problems caused by or associated with drug and alcohol use.

The team also provide information, consultancy and training to other professionals, and a support service for Primary Health Care Teams. The outreach service provide mobile needle and syringe provision for injecting drug users.

A free, confidential service open to anyone including families and friends seeking information, advice and counselling support to reduce problems caused by drug or alcohol use. Prescribing service, needle exchange and The Mayflower Outreach Project Mobile Needle Exchange

Harm reduction service to provide a free, confidential, non-judgemental information and counselling service to drug and alcohol users.

Covers alcohol drugs and solvents. Community / out-patient detox, Counselling, Healthcare, Needle exchange. Pregnancy / parenthood services, Prescribing, Prison work. Group support ongoing / counselling short and long term as required.

Open: Mon - Fri: 9am - 5pm

Contact Details:

Acorn Community Drug and Alcohol Service
Frith Cottage
Church Road
Frimley
Camberley
Surrey
GU16 7AD

Telephone: 01276 670883