Alcohol Help

Primrose House, London
Providing comfortable, contained, and safe accommodation for addicts and alcoholics in recovery

About us:

Primrose House is a 12 bed tertiary care facility in the beautiful North London area of Primrose Hill. Our residents are both male and female adults who are in recovery from alcohol and drug dependence or other addictive disorders and who wish to reside in the London area. Residents will usually have completed a primary and/or secondary care treatment programme and are looking for the additional support and structure that we offer.

Primrose House has been developed as a contained setting with a recovery based environment. We have a full time House Manager and provide residents with three complete meals per day, private or shared accommodation, access to family and individual counselling by skilled addiction professionals, and advice and encouragement in living a sober and drug free lifestyle.

Primrose House expects its residents to be either gainfully employed, attending school, involved in volunteer work, or participating in a similar constructive activity as part of their recovery process. Fellowship meetings such as those offered by 12 Step Programmes are mandatory, as are regular house meetings to ensure the smooth running of the Primrose House community.

Contact Details:

Primrose House
9 Ainger Road
Primrose Hill
London
NW3 3AR

Telephone: 020 77223609

Herbert Street Rugby House, London
Alcohol residential rehabilitation service based in Chalk Farm near London’s Camden Town.

About us:

Fully accessible for those with mobility difficulties, Herbert Street is open to abstinent clients from all boroughs.

Herbert Street is an abstinence-based structured alcohol rehabilitation programme, which accommodates up to nine men and women, established over 10 years ago.

Our primary aim is to provide a safe, supportive, drug and alcohol-free environment for the individual to tackle the underlying issues related to their drinking. We aim to enable people to move back into the community with an increased quality of life.

As a registered care home it has received excellent inspection reports from CSCI.

The service provides 24 hour staffing, including management on call.

The service is based in Camden, but referrals are taken from all London boroughs and the south east of England.

Services provided

* A comprehensive 6 month programme
* Incorporating therapeutic group work; skills based
* Innovative and creative therapies to support core skills
* Educational workshops, lectures and interactive groups
* Individual key working
* A safe and supportive alcohol - free environment
* 24 hour on site cover 7 days per week.
* Provision for formal and informal support
* Accommodation, which is fully wheel chair accessible for anyone with mobility difficulties.
* On site support with dual diagnosis or secondary illnesses including access to specialists
* Ongoing Aftercare Support Group to consolidate clients recovery when returning to community
* Currently researching and developing Family Support Sessions to be introduced soon.

Suitable for

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* Between the ages of 18 and 65
* With long term problematic alcohol use
* Who wish to remain abstinent
* It is suitable for those with high care needs
* The house was designed with a fully accessible disabled annex (although the service does not provide personal care).

Referral Procedure

* Local Authority funding is required. hungerford-footbridgeApplicants will need to be assessed by their local borough.
* Referral is via telephone or letter
* Clients are expected to have a minimum of seven day detox prior to admission.
* Herbert Street will provide smooth prompt liaison with care management teams
* Clients receive care management reviews with their key worker and care manager, supported by a progress report and discharge report.

Contact Details:

Herbert Street Rugby House
Residential Rehabilitation Service
2 Herbert Street
London

NW5 4HD

Telephone: 020 7916 5013

Agar & St Augustines Residential Alcohol Treatment, London
Abstinence based structured alcohol rehabilitation programme

About us:

Agar & St Augustine’s are small abstinence-based structured alcohol rehabilitation programme which accommodates up to eleven men and women.

Our primary aim is to provide a safe, supportive, drug and alcohol- free environment for the individual to tackle their underlying issues related to their drinking. The holistic programme is aimed at enabling people to move back into the community with an increased quality of life.

Agar & St Augustine’s are registered care homes and have received excellent CSCI reports.

Staffing

The full time staff have a Diploma in counselling or substance misuse and the NVQ level 3 in Health & Social Care and DANOS or are working towards these awards. The manager holds the Registered Managers Award and the senior practitioner holds the NVQ Assessors award.

Agar & St Augustine’s has been set up to meet the needs of adults who want to undergo an intensive treatment programme, but retain as much of their independence as possible.

Clients must be:

* Between the ages of 18 and 65.
* Abstinent from and other drugs (excluding tobacco)

In order for clients to make full use of the structured programme offered it is essential that clients are able to demonstrate some cognitive and reflective capability. To this end whilst the scheme will accept some clients with mental health issues, this is done on an individual basis and always needs to take into account the needs of other residents currently in the scheme.

Clients on anti-psychotic and sedating anti-depressant can sometimes not only find it difficult to access the treatment programme but in some cases find their mental health condition exacerbated.

Unfortunately, the scheme is not suitable for clients with mobility difficulties, due to the steep steps. It is also unsuitable for highly vulnerable clients with complex needs.

All residents must be able to self-care as no nursing care is provided.

Services Provided

The Agar & St Augustine’s core programme is 12 weeks with an extension for another 12 weeks based on individual needs. Service users will receive a care management review at 8 weeks with their key worker and care management.

* Weekly individual key working
* A holistic structured therapeutic group work programme, based on the social learning model, using cognitive behavioural and motivational techniques.
* Individual client led Personal Development Plans and reviews
* Open therapeutic groups
* Relapse Awareness
* Anger Management
* Stress Management
* Gender Group
* Assignments and peer feedback groups
* Gaol setting
* Relaxation group
* Auricular acupuncture
* Formal and informal support
* Encouragement to establish local community networks
* After Care support

Contact Details:

Agar & St Augustines Residential Alcohol Treatment
71 Agar Grove
London

NW1 9UE

Telephone: 020 7916 7633