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Alcohol Advisory Service

Services: Free confidential counselling for people with drinking problems their friends & family - information - educational talks - seminars - trainingm programmes & consultancy.

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Holly Lodge

Selection criteria: Male & female - 16-75 yrs - must have completed a primary abstinence based programme - pregnant women accepted - people with mental health problems accepted subject to clinical assessment, unless severely psychotic - prescribed medication permitted - no couples - no children - no pets.

Treatment fees: ~£275 per week.

Selection criteria: Male & female - 18+ yrs - minimum 24 hours drug free before admission - no in-house detox facilities - no children - no pets - pregnant women in special circumstances.

Treatment fees: ~£260 per week.

Selection criteria: Male & female - 16-75 yrs - do not need to be drug free on admission - couples are accepted, but not at the same time - pregnant women accepted - people with mental health problems accepted subject to clinical assessment, unless severely psychotic - prescribed medication permitted - comprehensive in-house detox from alcohol & all drugs - referrals accepted from all users of drugs, with no special conditions - no children - no pets.

Treatment fees: Please refer to the admissions office.

Services: Inpatient detoxification - self help - aftercare & ongoing support - alcohol & substance dependency - intensive 12 step programme - group work - one-to-one care.

Services: Male only - 18+ yrs - Christian staff - drug free on admission - will accept people with solvent/tranquilliser problems if part of polydrug use.

Services: Male & female - 16 bed spaces - 18+ yrs - general house - drug free for 7 days on entry - accepts unmarried couples.

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Youth & Community Service

Services: Provides a cross section of drug education & services to young people, communities & staff - drug prevention - support - counselling - advocacy - referrals & staff training - information & advice via shops, mobile units and youth centres.

Services: Self referrals accepted - drug users, relatives & friends - information - advice - counselling - prescribing - out-patient detox - needle/syringe exchange - aftercare - home visits - group work - psychiatric & psychological treatment.

Services: Self referrals accepted - drug users, relatives & friends - information - advice - counselling - prescribing - in-patient & out-patient detox - needle/syringe exchange - primary health care - home visits - outreach/detached - aftercare - group work - individual counselling for women - antenatal care - child care education - psychiatric & psychological treatment by referral.

Services: Christian enterprise for helping young people with life controlling problems, such as drug & alcohol misuse - they are developing a comprehensive range of facilities to provide care, education, training & work schemes for the misuser & their families.

Services: Community initiative based on the Grange Park estate, Blackpool - working with parents, young people & the wider community.

Services: Advise on health issues - counselling - one-to-one interviews - advice on substances & their effects - counselling for parents/carers who are caring for people with substance dependency.

Services: Free confidential service for all young people under 25 - information & support on relationships, families, contraception, sexual health, pregnancy testing & counselling, alcohol, smoking, drugs, diet etc.

Services: Assessments - one-to-one counselling - group work input.

Services: Self referrals - experimental & recreational drug use - needle exchange scheme - information - individual & family counselling - education - training - research.

Services: Provides a cross section of drugs education & services to young people, communities & staff - drug prevention - support - counselling - advocacy - referrals & staff training - information & advice via shops, mobile units & youth centres.

Services: Self referrals accepted - drug users, relatives & friends - information - advice - counselling - out-patient detox - needle/syringe exchange - home visits - psychiatric & psychological treatment - GP liaison workers.

Services: Drug users, relatives & friends - information - advice - counselling - home visits - aftercare - female counsellor - access to detox - needle/syringe exchange - primary health care - prescribing - psychiatric & psychological treatment.

Services: Provides support for solvent users and their families/carers - telephone helpline - training provided for other workers/community groups.

Services: Work with young people who come into conflict with schools over possession/use of illegal substances - counselling - advocacy - alternative education whilst not in school - help & advice to parents/carers - work with teaching staff - enhancing school policies - re-integration into education/training - health advice & support - needle & syringe exchange.

Services: Provides a peer led education programme for young people (diversionary projects) - telephone help-line and one-to-one support and counselling for drug users, their friends & family - education & harm reduction work with groups of young people.

Services: Early intervention drug service offering short term counselling & support for young people & their parents - support for professionals working with young drug users - easy access through telephone help-line - outreach work - support & advice with courts/probation service.

Services: Self referrals accepted - drug users, carers & workers - experimental, recreational & dependent use - needle exchange scheme - information, individual & family counselling - education - training & research.

Services: Self referrals accepted - for drug users, their relatives & friends - information - advice - counselling - prescribing - out-patient detox - needle/syringe exchange - primary health care - home visits - outreach/detached - aftercare - psychiatric treatment.

Services: Self referrals accepted - for drug users, their relatives & families - information - advice - counselling - prescribing - out-patient detox - needle/syringe exchange - primary health care - home visits - outreach/detached - aftercare - group work - psychiatric & psychological treatment.

Services: Telephone support for parents/carers.

Services: Support in Leyland with emergency accommodation for young people - provides host families for homeless young people, many of whom have drug related problems.

Services: For drug users, relatives & friends - information - advice - counselling - prescribing - in-patient detox - out-patient detox - needle/syringe exchange - home visits - outreach/detached - aftercare - group work - referrals on for psychiatric & psychological treatment - primary health care & prevention - training & support.

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First Step Drug & Alcohol Rehabilitation Centre

Selection criteria: Male & female - 18+ yrs - methadone & lofexidine detoxification programmes - no pets - no children, but they may visit.

Treatment fees: Once the referral has been accepted, the appropriate social services will be contacted for a community care/funding package.

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Stanfield House

Selection criteria: Male & female - 18+ yrs - must be drug free for a week on entry - pregnant women may be considered - pets allowed with prior agreement - referrals accepted for all substances - no children.

Treatment fees: ~£260 per week, met jointly by social services & DSS.

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Kairos - Norcare Ltd

Services: Alcohol rehabilitation unit offering 6 months rehabilitation for people who want a period free from alcohol to examine the reasons why their drinking has become problematic - counselling - support - group work - referrals via social services - 16-65 yrs.

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Community Addictions Advisory Service

Services: For anyone who feels they have a problem relating to street drugs, tranquillisers, methadone, painkillers, alcohol or solvents - counselling - information - support - for users, friends & family - needle exchange.

Services: Assessment - treatment & counselling for people experiencing problems due to drug and/or alcohol addiction.

Services: Advice - information - counselling - support - community detoxification via the client's GP - in-patient detoxification with direct access to 5 specialist beds - needle exchange - condoms - Hep B vaccinations - HIV counselling - health checks - pregnancy testing.

Services: support group for people suffering from tranquilliser withdrawal, stress, anxiety or depression.

Services: Individual counselling - anxiety management - information - support - community detoxification - needle exchange.

Services: Free confidential advice on personal concerns, relationships, family problems, drug & alcohol abuse, eating disorders & benefits.

Services: Advice & support for people experiencing problems due to drugs & alcohol - home visits available - referral by self, GP or other agency.

Services: Information - advice - support - face to face & telephone counselling for those with difficulties around drug & alcohol abuse - also offer support to carers, family & friends.

Services: Needle exchange - also mobile needle exchange available. 

Services: Advice - information - help with prevention, recognition & treatment of problems related to the use of alcohol, drugs & related substances - information - counselling - support.

Services: Prevention, recognition & treatment of problems related to the use of alcohol, drugs & related substances - information - counselling - support.

Services: Advice, support & counselling on all aspects of substance/alcohol use.

Services: Residential care in 60 centres throughout Britain - detoxification - advice - information - needle exchange - counselling - peer education - street & outreach work.

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Phoenix House Tyneside

Selection criteria: Male & female - 18+ yrs - normally drug free - couples accepted - care will be exercised over psychiatric disorders which could be aggravated, violent offences, arson & certain types of sexual offence - no children, but may visit by arrangement - no pets.

Treatment fees: ~£260 per week community care funding minus DSS contributions for English clients - ~£330 per week for Scottish clients.

Selection criteria: Male & female - 18+ yrs - couples accepted - clients with a history of tranquilliser use are offered a reduction programme - small pets allowed with agreement from staff & residents - not suitable for people needing 24 hour supervision or with psychiatric problems unrelated to their alcohol or drug use.

Treatment fees: ~£253 per week, made up of DSS allowances, residents' contributions & local authority grants.

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Turning Point

Services: Residential & day care services for men & women with alcohol/drug problems - confidential young person's service and a support group for families & friends affected by someone's drug misuse.

Services: Advice - support - information - counselling - needle exchange - crossroads "dry" social club - semi-independent living scheme.

Services: Family support services to people whose children/parents are/have been involved with substance misuse - drug education with young people & schools - work with ex-offenders & prisoners with regard to their substance misuse.

Services: Adults who are at risk in the community because of serious drug and/or alcohol misuse can be assessed to find out what problems they are facing & what can be done to assist them - support - referral - information on services - financial assistance for a period of residential care may be available, as well as for other services.

Services: Assessment & treatment of alcohol & drug related problems for people aged 18+ yrs - professional team in medicine, occupational therapy, psychology & nursing.

Services: For young people with significant substance related problems, aged 18 yrs and under.

Services: Information - advice - drop-in centre.

Services: General advice & information service for young people - counselling.

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Altrincham Priory Hospital

Selection criteria: Male & female - free assessment available.

Treatment fees: ~£2,000 per week after an initial deposit of £3,500.

Selection criteria: Male & female - 18-65 yrs - one week drug free on entry - couples accepted - pets accepted by negotiation - no detoxification available although anti-depressants and beta-blockers can be negotiated - actively psychotic clients would not be appropriate - no children, but weekend visits possible.

Treatment fees: ~£270 per week from client's income (income support, personal allowance & residential allowance) & social services.

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Lifeline

Services: Information - advice - counselling - legal guidance.

Services: Assessment - referral - needle exchange - advice.

Services: 24 Hour helpline on drugs use & legal matters.

Services: Assessment - treatment - advice.

Services: Monitoring - treatment - needle exchange - prescribing - advice - information.

Services: Confidential service for young people - one-to-one counselling - information - advice - helpline - signposting and/or referral to appropriate service - for an appointment please telephone between 9.30 & midnight.

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Anfield Support Group

Services: Visits & supports people who abuse drugs and their families - referral to other agencies.

Services: A general support agency for drug users, their families & friends - counselling - needle exchange.

Services: Advice - information - informal sessions at Knotty Ash Community Centre, Longreach Youth Centre & Deysbrook Community Centre.

Services: Referral only from health care professionals, support groups, probation officers & social workers - advice - information - counselling - treatment - prescribing - information on HIV/AIDS.

Services: Treatment - counselling - support - for people who want to be drug free or without substitute drugs.

Services: Confidential & sympathetic listening service - appointments can be made via the phone to visit premises.

Services: Information & training services on drugs & related health, social & legal issues - reference library for public use - publishes wide range of drug information leaflets.

Services: Day care rehabilitation project - education - training - employment - 12 week 4 days per week programme to reintegrate recovered & recovering drug misusers back into the community.

Services: Community based drug prevention initiative providing foundation level skill training in a wide range of art forms, personal & vocational skills.

Services: Counselling - information & advice on HIV/AIDS - also offers care to people in prisons and various support groups to drug users and their families.

Services: One-to-one counselling - hospital & domiciliary visiting - family support group - women's outreach.

Services: Syringe exchange service - counselling - drop-in service.

Services: Drug users will be referred to a centre or a doctor but counselling will be carried out by telephone or by person.

Services: Drug prevention - education - counselling.

Services: Support - advice - information - counselling - yoga & relaxation sessions - HIV counselling - drug education & awareness - training.

Services: Offers free factsheets & information on tranquillisers & sleeping pills - send a SAE to address shown.

Services: Offers ongoing support to families of people with drug and/or alcohol misuse problems.

Services: Accommodation for homeless drug addicts - methadone programme operates, with training courses related to the building trades.

Services: Information - advice - counselling - prescribing & needle/syringe exchange - midwife available - will also do psychiatric assessments.

Services: Information & assistance for people withdrawing from benzodiazepines and antidepressants - one-to-one counselling - relaxation & yoga sessions.

Services: Harm reduction - one-to-one counselling - blood tests - syringe exchange.

Services: Offers ongoing support for families of drug or alcohol abusers.

Services: Information & education on all aspects of drugs and related problems.

Services: Needle/syringe exchange - mobile needle/syringe exchange - doctor available - nursing - primary health care.

Services: Counselling - outreach - needle exchange - condoms - full health screening - information - drop-in on Mondays (appointment needed).

Services: A youth service working with young people around issues of drugs - training - advice - support for parents of drug users or parents who may be concerned about drugs.

Services: Advice - information - counselling - syringe exchange - referral to other agencies.

Services: Free & confidential advice and information on all aspects of HIV/AIDS, Hep B and C, and related drug issues - pre & post-testing advice & counselling - condoms - literature - training for other agencies.

Services: Information - advice - GP liaison worker - mobile syringe exchange - advice on HIV testing.

Services: Information - advice - Mobile needle/syringe exchange - condoms - advice on HIV testing.

Services: Prescriptions - counselling - psychiatrists - outreach workers - HIV/AIDS support worker.

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Chorley Drugs & Family Support Group

Services: Support group that specialises in solvent abuse.

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Kenyon House

Services: In-patient & out-patient detoxification - 20 beds of which 4 are allocated to Manchester based patients - referral after assessment - 1 week minimum and 6 weeks maximum residency - opiate reduction based on 10 day reduction programme using Methadone & Naloxone - a few patients are admitted for cocaine and amphetamine addiction - no alcohol or drug use permitted - visits allowed but some restrictions may apply - programme of activities - relaxation therapy - physiotherapy.

Treatment fees: ~£150 per day.

Services: Run by English Churches Housing - accommodation for 22 men and women aged 18 and over - must remain alcohol and illicit drug free - safe and supportive environment - explore positive alternative lifestyles - two stages of accommodation - average length of stay is around 12 months - key workers - agency workers.

Services: Managed by Turning Point - 25 bed detox available - project very busy and so places can be hard to come by - nursing home status - detox very focused and lasts only 10 days - there is a 50 place day centre with a range of activities including camera groups education programmes activities and days out - clients must not be intoxicated on arrival.

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Chorley Drug Team

Services: For users & parents.

Services: The needle exchange scheme provides a full range of needles, syringes & other injecting equipment plus a safe disposal facility and personal sharp safe containers, free of charge. 

Services: Needle/syringe exchange - specialist drug workers - advice - counselling - expertise around HIV/AIDS issues & recreational drug use - referrals.

Services: MASH has developed over the last 5 years from being a mobile needle exchange/condom provision project into a primary street based sexual health & drug service in Manchester - priority target client group are women & men who work as prostitutes, however the needle exchange & drug treatment referral service are open to all drug users - operates from a van located in a city centre car park - GUM clinic available Thursday evenings - drug specialist midwife available on alternate Wednesday's.

Services: New start's main objective is to divert drug users out of the criminal justice system - crime prevention project - encourages positive behavioural change - guidance - support - needle exchange - condoms - day care project - counselling - welfare rights - advice & information - groupwork - employment opportunities and training.

Services: Drug user group run by drug users & ex-users for drug users - phone to arrange meetings 24 hrs a day - advice - needle exchange - referrals.

Services: Needle exchange - drug worker - referrals - drug treatment service - harm reduction - full range of health services.

Services: Needle exchange.

Services: Methadone prescription - home detoxification option using Britlofex - support - home visits - can advise on suitable GPs - needle exchange - information and advice - counselling services and referrals.

Services: Assessment for anyone requiring rehabilitation.

Services: Free information - assessment - care management and counselling - referrals - community based detox - one to one assessment.

Services: Free and confidential specialist service for individuals, their families, friends and colleagues - one to one counselling - referrals.

Services: Daily group work - four AA meetings a week - one to one - referrals.

Services: Encourage positive behavioural change - employment link worker - prepare individuals for prospective course tutors or employers.

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Birchwood

Selection criteria: Male & female - 18+ yrs - clients accepted who have a history of stable, variable or chaotic drug use, including mixed & poly-drug use - detoxification programme for up to 3 people is available.

Treatment fees: Telephone for details.

Selection criteria: Male & female - 18+ yrs - detox support facility - may start programme in final stages of a Methadone prescription (30ml per day max) but must make the commitment of reducing by 2ml per day, otherwise must be 24 hours drug free on admission - people with a history of violence, schedule one offences, or a history of psychiatric treatment not related to drug misuse not accepted.

Treatment fees: ~£260 per week for rehabilitation & ~£450 per week for detoxification.

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ARCH Initiatives

Services: Information, advice & counselling to drug users and/or their families - harm reduction programme - information & support on housing & welfare rights and training and employment issues - referral by self or other agencies.

Services: Working with young people who are disadvantaged, focusing on their educational & social needs.

Services: Provides a free & confidential counselling and support service for children (8-18 years old) of parent & carers with alcohol problems.

Services: Developing "bottom up" drugs prevention activities within the community - targeting local people to develop the understanding that drug prevention is everyone's business.

Services: The Merseyside Drugs Prevention Team is community based and covers Liverpool, Sefton, St Helens, Knowsley & Wirral - it can advise, assist and in some cases grant-fund local work involving local people, who aim to prevent the spread of drug misuse.

Services: Counselling, support, advocacy, advice, information & drop-in service for 11-13 year olds experiencing difficulties in life relating to homelessness, benefits, drugs, family difficulties, abuse etc.

Services: Includes work with young people who are mainly contacted on the streets who are drinking, involved with illegal drugs or deemed to be at risk.

Services: Drop-in centre - information - advice - organises activities - needle/syringe exchange - careers advice.

Services: Information - support - assessment & detox programmes - family support - drop-in.

Services: Offers help & advice to drug users, their friends, partners & family.

Services: Coordinates local arrangements for implementing the local drug misuse strategy - sets priorities and has introduced a local plan of action.

Services: Testing for HIV, Hep B&C - pregnancy tests - syringe exchange - advice - harm reduction - safer sex advice.

Services: Drug free support group for ex-users run by ex-users.

Services: Free & confidential counselling for those who abuse solvents - advice - information - support for parents & friends of misusers - educational talks for the community, schools, youth clubs and at play groups - produces literature on solvent abuse.

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Hull & East Yorkshire Council for Drug Problems

Services: Information - support - training - advice - support and advice for relatives, carers & friends of drug users - befriending & support by a named allocated key worker - counselling - referral - information on women's health issues - advocacy - massage - aromatherapy - relaxation techniques - tranquilliser support group - support for Methadone users.

Services: Confidential needle exchange scheme with counselling where necessary.

Services: AIDS & HIV advice.

Services: Counselling & referral where necessary.

Services: Alcohol advisory service and treatment.

Services: Criminal justice & court referral scheme for offenders with a drug problem.

Services: Counselling - psychiatrist available - specialist nurse - treatment & prescribing where necessary.

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Ark House Recovery Centre

Selection criteria: Male & female - 18-65 yrs - alcohol/drug free 24 hours before admission - pregnant women & couples may be accepted - children not accepted unless with proper permission - pets not accepted.

Treatment fees: ~£250 per week private and ~£220 per week social services.

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Services: Advice - information - support - HIV testing & support can be arranged - needle exchange - appointments - community visits - telephone helpline.

Services: Arrest referral scheme - private & confidential help.

Services: All aspects of health promotion.

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Phoenix House Adult Residential Project

Selection criteria: Male & female - 18+ yrs - prefably drug free but in-house detoxification may be arranged - 4 beds available - couples accepted but cohabitation not always possible - pregnant women accepted - people with records of violence considered depending on the nature of the offences - clients with severe mental health problems, a record of sexual offending or arson not accepted - no pets.

Treatment fees: ~£270 per week.

Selection criteria: Men, women and their children up to the age of 10 - pregnant women accepted - detoxification from opiates, benzodiazepines and alcohol - no pets.

Treatment fees: Contact the project for current charges and breakdown into DSS contributions and community care funding.

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Sheffield Drug Action Team

Services: Co-ordinating services - information - literature.

Services: Substance misuse services targeting black & ethnic minority communities - advice - information - counselling - support - practical assistance.

Services: Assistance for people who misuse alcohol, illicit drugs and other substances - specialist treatment and advice.

Services: Rehabilitation programme where detoxification takes place in the community - 6 month ongoing programme - access to support group - resident GPs on call.

Services: Harm minimisation - counselling - advice - support - information - needle exchange - auricular acupuncture - medical sessions - welfare rights sessions - referral to lofexidine detoxification - assessment & referral to other agencies - information & support for friends & family.

Services: Advice & information around all drug issues - counselling & support - educational services - youth justice service - safer dancing service.

Services: Information, advice & counselling to anyone who is experiencing problems with alcohol - friends & relatives support - evening sessions - 6 bed dry house available.

Services: Day centre aimed at getting drink problems off the streets - hot food - hot drinks - clothing - hairdressing & wash and brush up is available - assistance with the completion of forms - help with housing, DSS, medical needs, contacting doctors & rehousing is also available - alcohol & general advice is available & encouragement to stay off the streets.

Services: Help & support for people with tranquilliser misuse problems - support for people with anxiety, depression, panic attacks and agrophobia.

Services: Information & training on substance misuse to groups of parents & relatives - promoting the foundation of self-help groups - recruitment of volunteers to assist in the delivery of these services.

Services: Support for any person with depression, anxiety, stress, agoraphobia & tranquilliser problems - referrals from other agencies and self-referrals accepted.

Services: The project focuses on young men aged 10-24 years in the Tinsley area, who are in contact with or are likely to come into contact with drugs - education - training - recreational activities & events - information material on drug abuse.

Services: It is a supported self-help group for mainly black women who are struggling with the effects on their lives of a partner using drugs - training - network establishing.

Services: 3 Part time street workers - information - harm reduction - outreach work in the area and local youth clubs - referrals if necessary.

Services: Advice, information, consultation & training around young people and drugs - school, college & youth club drug education.

Services: Provide accommodation for men & women who intend to examine, and attempt to change their drinking behaviour - based in a dry house - strictly no alcohol - main aim is to acknowledge peoples life experiences, recognise their personal values, and so maximise their innate capacity for personal growth & self direction.

Services: Provide a meeting place for the homeless & others "on the edge", by providing free breakfast, friendship, shower facilities, second hand clothing and advice - an alcohol worker is available one Tuesday per month - onward referrals if necessary.

Services: Specialist service for patients with long standing, alcohol abuse problems - offers a professional knowledge bridge between primary care and the in-patient facilities, giving advice, contemporary information & education - priority is given to home detoxification programmes and case load crisis intervention.

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Community Supervision For Drug Using Offenders

Services: Specialist help for offenders who may need to address problems of drug use - provides counselling sessions with clearly set objectives to meet the needs of drug using offenders - the programme is intended to offer the courts an alternative to imprisonment - available to drug using offenders who face a high risk of custody and for whom a community penalty may be appropriate.

Services: Seeks to address the problem of drug relating offending - identify and contact all drug related offenders through the court system - information, access to treatment - onward referral - raise awareness of safer drug using practices and safer sex - act as a resource to the courts by providing assessments, reports & information.

Services: This scheme is aimed at primary school pupils - information seeking and giving, in order that pupils can avoid peer pressure now and in later in life.

Services: Advice - information - support on all problems relating to the use and misuse of drugs - open to anyone concerned about their own drug problem or that of any other person - do not have to be drug free and the scheme does not try to make people stop using drugs - referral to residential rehabilitation & other agencies - needle & syringe exchange - condoms and advice on health problems - training.

Services: Advice, support & consultancy to professionals from statutory & voluntary organisations in relation to health promotion - resources & information - free loan of teaching aids - advice on appropriate teaching materials - and use of leaflets and posters are also available.

Services: The day centre is accessible for single homeless men & women aged 16+ yrs - support workers available to work with users of the centre on drug & alcohol issues as well as housing and benefit issues.

Services: For drug users in custody, working in a range of prisons in Yorkshire & Humberside - assessment - referral - information on drugs, HIV and Hepatitis - reports for sentencers - counselling - assessments for a range of rehabilitation houses, non-residential services & local authority community care funding.

Services: Community based alcohol service - advice - information - counselling - raising awareness of the risks of alcohol abuse - support & counselling for people with drink problems and for those who may be affected by someone else's drink problem - promotion of local action to prevent harm caused by excessive drinking.

Services: Prescriptions - advice - information - support - referral via a GP only, using a pro-forma referral form available from the clinic or from York Drugs Resource Scheme.

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Selection criteria: Male & female - 18+ yrs whose primary problem is alcohol misuse - those with a history of violence, or racial or sexual harassment not catered for.

Services: Safe supervised detoxification - access to primary health care through visiting GP - laundry services & meals - recreational activities - assessment of physical and psycho-social effects of client's alcohol abuse.

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Alcohol Information Centre

Services: One-to-one counselling for people with alcohol problems, their friend's & family - dry group providing mutual support - community care assessments for rehabilitation - information - couple counselling.

Services: For people 13-20 yrs with concerns about their own or someone else's drug use - for parents concerned about their children's drug use - for professionals seeking advice/support concerning drug users with whom they are working - information - support - home/agency visits - drop-in service.

Services: For women aged 40+ yrs who are homeless and have acute problems with alcohol - long stay accommodation - support for physical and mental health and emotional needs - support - improving life skills.

Selection criteria: Male & female - 18+ yrs - whose primary problem is alcohol misuse - those with a history of violence, or racial or sexual harassment.

Services: Advice - information - harm reduction - encourage behaviour and lifestyle change - drug stabilisation and detoxification - supervised dispensing - provision for dual diagnosis for clients with mental health problems - pregnancy liaison service.

Services: Counselling - probation - assessment & conditional counselling - assessments for residential rehabilitation - advice - information - advocacy - drop-in - liaison with prescribers.

Services: Free needles & syringes - free sterets, pocket bins, condoms & citric - information and advice on a whole range of issues from housing to health care.

Services: Needle exchange - information & support for users their families & friends - outreach workers - advocacy - drop-in for parents - drop-in for needle exchange users - creche facility - choice of male or female worker.

Services: To improve communication locally in order to encourage addicts & their families to use existing services.

Services: Part of the scheme is the immediate referral of heroin addicts, who commit shop theft, to a treatment centre - treatment & counselling starts within an hour.

Services: To provide health promotion - training - education - resources & support to health providers in voluntary & statutory agencies on a wide range of health promotion issues, skills and topics, including HIV & sexual health.

Services: Information for 14-25 year olds, including information on health & drugs - counselling - surgeries.

Services: To raise drug awareness among ethnic minorities, including sources of help for women.

Services: To raise awareness of drugs issues across the Thorpe Edge estate - inform local people of existing services where help & support can be obtained by co-users/concerned parents - establishment of support networks.

Services: Raising drugs awareness through pop music & school workshops to young people.

Services: To highlight the dangers of drug/solvent abuse to primary/secondary school pupils and parents by sponsorship of life skills resources (TACADE).

Services: To motivate & reward schools who positively address the issues of drug misuse by young people - support in effective substance-related health education.

Services: Education - prevention - community consultation - liaison with other service providers - information provision.

Services: To provide educational & campaign materials including posters & booklets - "Parents' Guide to Drugs".

Services: To provide information & assistance on drug misuse and local services.

Services: To provide a long-term primary drug abuse prevention programme for children aged 4-12 years old.

Services: Campaign against the misuse of drugs & alcohol in Asian Afro-Caribbean and other ethnic minority communities - targets young people and provides popular entertainment in a safe drug, alcohol & tobacco free environment. 

Services: Education & training related to local skill shortages, for younger unemployed people who have, or are in danger of, substance abuse problems.

Services: Prevention by education and diversionary activities - a share group for young addicts or young people who are most at risk.

Services: To initiate formal/informal discussions with young people around drug use and to establish a drugs forum comprised of young people & parents.

Services: To give information about drugs & health to young people and to train them to be peer educators - to work alongside probation with people who have experience of drug abuse.

Services: The aim is to prevent the spread of HIV, hepatitis & other infections through the provision of clean injection equipment, information and advice.

Services: Training upper school students to deliver drugs awareness to their peers in schools.

Services: To provide a safe, caring service & environment for people affected by HIV and to challenge all forms of discrimination.

Services: To support local people to find effective ways to deal with drug misuse in the community - advice - consultation - financial help.

Services: To assist homeless young people, some of whom are also drug users.

Services: To provide advice for homeless people with drug problems, and refer them to local drug treatment services if needed.

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