Drug & Alcohol, Carers Support, Complex Needs and Recovery
Trading Places - Ron Eager House, 214
Westgate Road
Service user led drop in
offering information and advice, help with letters, appointments, training and
access to sport, social activities and volunteering as well as food, clothing
and laundry facilities. Volunteers always needed.
Opening hours: Sunday 10
– 1pm
Contact Andy Hackett
Tel: 0191 2331941
Lifeline Harm Reduction Service - 43
Clayton Street Newcastle
Offers harm reduction advice, information and support, assessment,
referrals, testing, needle
exchange, medical interventions and volunteer opportunities. Nurse
available.
Opening hrs: Mon - Fri 10–6pm.
Contact Jill Hardie Team Leader Tel: 0191 2614719
Lifeline Outlook - 4 Hutton Terrace, Sandyford
Offers supported direct access into structured activities
and a range of opportunities for adults who have or have had problems
associated with drug or alcohol use. Also access to Intervention and Brief
Advice alcohol workers.
Opening
hours: Mon – Thu 10 – 4.30pm, Fri 10 – 3.30pm.
Contact
Kellie Richmond Tel: 0191 2811828
C/o Safe Newcastle Newcastle
To enable service user
and carer involvement, engagement, consultation and communication in relation
to service / treatment provision in the city. Also offers peer led support
and activity, as well as training, volunteer opportunities, advocacy and mentoring.
Held fortnightly every
Thursday 12-2pm at various Service venues in Newcastle
Contact Andy Hackett
Tel: 0191 2788126
NECA Newcastle 15
– 23 City Road Newcastle
Offer a range of
services / interventions to tackle substance misuse including activities for
clients on Drug Rehabilitation Requirements (DRR).
Opening hours Mon – Fri
9am-8pm
Contact Rachel Nichol
Tel: 0191 222 1262.
Turning Point Arrest Referral and Resettlement - Sandyford
Road Newcastle
Offer assessment and
community based support to drug users awaiting sentence by the courts and, in
particular, to those subject to bail restrictions linked to their drug use, as well as aftercare services target clients managed within the
Prison and Probation Services.
Contact Lindsay Diston
Tel: 0191 2218010
Drug and Alcohol Liaison Midwife - Royal Victoria Infirmary
Co-ordinates the care of
pregnant women who misuse drugs and alcohol ensuring they receive a high
standard of maternity care, preferably within mainstream services.
Opening hours Mon – Fri
9-5.30pm
Contact Rachel
Towell Tel: 0191 2336161
Northumberland and Tyne Plummer
Court Carliol
Place Newcastle
Specialist alcohol and
drug misuse treatment interventions including prescribing, harm reduction, structured counselling, and
inpatient detoxification to those experiencing drug, alcohol and co morbid
mental health problems.
Opening hours Mon – Fri 9 to 8pm ,
Sat & Sun 10-6 pm
Contact Sandra
Barker Tel: 0191 2061100
Drug and Alcohol Social Work Team - Shieldfield Centre, Newcastle
Provide assessment for
clients wishing to access residential rehabilitation.
Opening hours Mon – Fri
9-5.30
Contact Stewart
Allison Tel: 0191 2788100
Oaktrees Residential Rehab (Changing Lives) - Gateshead
(next to Interchange)
Changing
Lives Oaktrees offers abstinence-based, structured, day programme of
support based on a self-help model which aims to empower people to take responsibility
for their recovery.
Opening hours Mon-Fri
8.30am - 5pm
Contact Alby Graham Tel:
0191 477 2205
Ridley Villas (Changing Lives) - Bridge Street , Newcastle Tyne
Ridley Villas is a supported accommodation service providing support to
women with children living in Newcastle Gateshead ,
who require support to help overcome drug and/or alcohol addiction, to continue to achieve and sustain
abstinence by accessing appropriate treatment. Contact S. Southerton Tel: 0191 232 9181
The Recovery Centre (Changing Lives) - The Old Toll House, Swing Bridge ,
Quayside, Newcastle
The service is open to anyone in Newcastle Gateshead
Opening hours Mon-Fri 9am-5pm
Tel: 0191 273 8891
Changing Trax
Changing Trax is a
project that works with families where there are significant risks of children becoming looked after or their names being
placed on the Child Protection Register.
The work is solution
focused and builds on the strengths of families to maintain children at home safely. A second strand of the project
is the Strengthening Families programme which is a structured group work programme for families
at risk but not in sufficient crisis to justify the intensive intervention programme.
Contact Telephone 0191
265 4566
Family Support
PROPS (Positive Responses to Overcoming Problematic Substance
abuse in the family) - 26 Hawthorne
Terrace, Cruddas Park, Newcastle
Provide support and
advice to the families and carers of problematic drug/ alcohol misusers
(including group work, one to one, support groups, accompanying on visits for
example to prison, court etc).
Opening hours 8.30 – 8pm
Contact Claire
RobinsonTel: 0191 226344
Other services
Alcohol
Anonymous. www.alcoholics-anonymous.org.uk.
0191 521 4400
North
East Regional Alcohol forum. http://www.neraf.org. Regional support
including peer mentoring, advocacy etc. Tel: 0191 5148520
Narcotics
Anonymous. www.ukna.org 0300
999 1212
