For free, confidential advice call 0800 0733011.

The following free and confidential help and treatment services are available throughout South Gloucestershire, following an assessment of your needs:

• Accommodation advice and support
• Acupuncture and other holistic therapies
• Assessments and referrals
• Carers and Families Support Service and Forum
• Counselling
• Day care and group programmes including relapse prevention
• Detox
• GP Prescribing (shared care)
• Harm reduction including hepatitis support, needle exchange service, shared care, first aid for overdose training, sexual health
• Life/work skills and IT training
• Residential Rehab Programmes
• Service User Forum

If you are thinking about seeking help for your drug or alcohol use, read here about a South Gloucestershire service user's experiences of treatment.

About SGDAS

South Gloucestershire Drug and Alcohol Services (SGDAS) is an umbrella organisation which delivers drugs advice, counselling, treatment and information services for people living in South Gloucestershire, through a team of providers including:  

• DHI (Drugs and Homeless Initiative) -
  • Assessments
  • Counselling and structured day care
  • Shared Care
  • Harm reduction advice and information
  • Mobile needle exchange
  • Outreach service
  • Acupuncture and other holistic therapies
  • Throughcare and aftercare including accommodation support, employment training and education
  • Families and Carers Support Service
  • Free first aid for overdose training

These services are available in treatment centres in Warmley and Yate, and through a variety of outreach services throughout South Gloucestershire.

• Addiction Recovery Agency
  • Abstinence based residential and community rehabilitation
• Battle Against Tranquillisers
  • Specialist service for people using tranquillisers, whether these are prescribed or not prescribed
• Bristol Specialist Drug and Alcohol Service (BSDAS)
  • Specialist drug and alcohol service for people with more complex needs e.g. pregnant drug users, specialist prescribing, mental health, inpatient and community detox
• South Gloucestershire GPs
  • Involved in shared care/GP prescribing schemes
• Walsingham House
  • Abstinence based residential rehabilitation service
• South Gloucestershire Young People's Drug and Alcohol Service
  • Offers advice, information and support (both group and 1 to 1) to young people under the age of 18 who have problems with drug or alcohol use, their carers and family members

Getting More Information about Drugs

• For information on what individual drugs look like, and their effects
• To understand the legal position on drugs
• If you are thinking about getting help because of your drug use, or you want to talk to someone in complete confidence
  • Call South Gloucestershire Drug & Alcohol Service (SGDAS) free from a landline or callbox on 0800 0733 011
  • For more information on how we support carers and families
  • Other helpline numbers:
    • FRANK national free phone 0800 776600 www.talktofrank.com
    • Narcotics Anonymous 0845 3722 366 or 0207 730 0009 www.ukna.org
    • Re-Solv (advice and information on solvent abuse) 01785 810762 www.re-solv.org

Support for Carers and Families

If you care for or live with someone whose drug or alcohol use worries or affects you, you probably feel isolated, helpless and frustrated. You are not alone, and it doesn't mean you are a bad parent or carer.

All types of people use or misuse drugs and alcohol.

• If you are a parent of a young person under the age of 18, the young people's service can give you advice, information and support
• Families Also Matter (FAM) is a support service to families in South Gloucestershire (provided by DHI) which offers practical and emotional support to help you cope, and the chance to meet other people experiencing similar issues. Groups meet regularly in Warmley and Yate and a one-to-one service is also available. For further information, please call 0800 0733 011 (free from a landline or callbox) or 01454 868750.

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