Local Support Information - Alcohol Services
Please visit the links to the right for information around drug treatment support groups in Cambridgeshire. Alcohol support and general service information is listed below.
Addaction Alcohol Service
From the 1st July, Addaction is contracted to deliver
Specialist Community Adult Alcohol Misuse Services for NHS Cambridgeshire.
Addaction already deliver Adult Substance Misuse Service and DIP Treatment Services in the county.
Addaction is delivering community based treatment for Alcohol Users including:
• Support and Advice to Alcohol User’s
• Assessment and Referral and Care Plans
• Brief Interventions
• Complementary Therapies
• Access to Mutual Aid Groups (including AA and Smart Recovery)
• Family Support
• Pharmacological Interventions
• Psychosocial Interventions
The dedicated multi-disciplinary Alcohol Team consists of Project Workers, nurse
practitioners, social work staff and other healthcare professionals as well as family support posts. The team is led by an Alcohol Services manager and supported by Team Leaders. The Alcohol Service covers Cambridgeshire with teams based at the following fixed sites:
• Cambridge
• Huntingdon
• Wisbech
Please click here for Addaction Alcohol Service leaflet.
Please click here for Addaction Alcohol service Referral Form
Working to reduce the harm caused by alcohol to individuals, families and communities by offering a range of treatment and support services for adults, young people, relatives and professionals.
79a Eastfield Road,
Peterborough,
Cambridgeshire,
PE1 4AS
Tel: 01733 555532
Fax: 01733 555531
Email: centraloffice@drinksense.org
See www.drinksense.org for more information.
Advice, Information and Counselling
Please call 08457 697 555 or visit www.alcoholics-anonymous.org.uk
Open 24 hours a day. Office hours 9-5 Mon-Thurs and Friday 9-4:30.
There are meetings in: Cambridge, Ely, Wisbech, March & Huntingdon
Tel: 08457 697 555
National Tel: 0207 9287377
Visit www.alcoholicsanonymous.org.uk
Al-Anon Family Groups (including teenagers)
Tel: 0207 4030 888
Provides understanding, strength and hope to anyone whose
life is, or has been affected by someone else’s drinking.
For details of local groups please call or visit www.al-anonuk.org.uk
National Helplines
Drinkline
Tel: 0800 917 8282
Drinkline offers the following services:
- Information and self-help materials
- Help to callers worried about their own drinking
- Support to the family and friends of people who are drinking
- Advice to callers on where to go for help
Confidential, accurate and consistent information and advice on sensible drinking to anyone concerned about alcohol misuse, which includes those people with alcohol problems, their families, friends and carers callers on request.
Cambridgeshire Harm Reduction Alcohol Strategy
Community Alcohol Partnerships (CAPs)
CAPs are partnerships between the County Council, City/District teams, retailers, local schools, police, treatment services and the community.
The main goal is to tackle problems caused by underage drinking and to inform the community as a whole about the harms associated with alcohol and young people. Trading Standards lead on these schemes, which is being rolled out across Cambridgeshire with a view to their being mainstream within the next three years. Along with additional enforcement, test purchasing on licensed premises, promotion and partnership working, alcohol awareness events are also regularly planned to educate adults around alcohol use and misuse.
Community Alcohol Partnerships address the wider problem of underage alcohol consumption rather than just underage sales. They tackle other providers of alcohol to young people like family and friends as well as educating young people, parents and retailers about the problems of underage alcohol consumption and the law. Police will confiscate alcohol from young people and then inform their parents of their findings. Test purchasing operations also continue to ensure retailers are not selling alcohol to under 18’s. Adults buying alcohol for under 18’s are fined and warned that further offences could lead to prosecution.
St Neots was the first place in the country to have a CAP. Together, the partners effected significant improvements in the public perception and volume of underage drinking. As part of the St Neots pilot, a toolkit was produced to help the implementation of CAPs in other areas of Cambridgeshire, and other parts of the country.
A second partnership was then set up in the Romsey, Petersfield and Coleridge wards of Cambridge.
Trading Standards have continued to roll out Community Alcohol Partnerships; with Wisbech launched in March 2010 and two more starting in South Cambridgeshire in the Summer of 2010.
Their impact is evaluated by a variety of means including reductions in antisocial behaviour, the prevalence of alcohol litter, numbers of reported complaints and incidents, ambulance pick-ups for underage alcohol misuse and test purchasing failures.
Local engagement has been an important element, so newspapers, local radio and magazines have been encouraged to report progress.
This work is supported by LPSA reward funding and the Department of Health (Go East).
The Cambridgeshire Community Alcohol Partnerships have been cited as being examples of good practice in the Government’s Youth Alcohol Action Plan and have been adopted throughout the UK.
Further information can be found on the Cambridgeshire County Council's CAP webpage. Click here to be directed to this site.
Why Let Drink Decide?
Website: www.whyletdrinkdecide.direct.gov.uk
The “Why Let Drink Decide?” campaign is a communication and educational tool for parents, teenagers and partners which has been featured in TV advertisements. The aim of the campaign is to raise awareness amongst young people of the potential consequences of drinking alcohol whilst encouraging adults to discuss alcohol with their children.
Through this campaign DCSF has provided facts on alcohol so that teenagers and parents can reach an informed decision when it comes to drinking. In addition to being a key source of information, the website also acts as a conversation starter via interactive games and parental insights.
Drinking Causes Damages You Can't See
Website: www.drinking.nhs.uk
The NHS have launched the 'Drinking causes damage you can't see' campaign. The website offers a range of tools and information to help assess and cut down harmful drinking.
The campaign, which includes two TV ads, builds on the previous units campaign and aims to raise awareness of the hidden health harm that can be caused by regularly drinking too much.
Last updated on: 16th April 2010
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