South Gloucestershire Drug & Alcohol Services

Drug Treatment

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:

 

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 1to1) to young people under the age of 18 who have problems with drug or alcohol use, their carers and family members