Local Support Information -

Cambridge City & South Cambridgeshire

Please see our leaflet outlining services available in Cambridge City and South Cambridgeshire.

Adult Drug Treatment Services

Addaction (Cambridge)
Mill House,
Brookfields Hospital Site,
351 Mill Road,
Cambridge,
CB1 3DF
Tel: 01223 72 30 20

Offers a full range of services to those affected by their own or someone else’s drug misuse. Open access services including advice, information, Needle Exchange and other harm reduction advice and support; this is available by drop in or appointment.

Other services are available following an assessment to determine needs; which may include counselling, substitute prescribing and other community and inpatient interventions. The Cambridge site is open from 9am to 5pm, Mon – Fri, drop in or call to talk to someone or make an appointment.

Support includes:

• Advice and information
• Key work
• Prescribing services
• Counselling
• Structured Day Programmes
• Needle exchange & Harm Reduction Interventions
• Blood Borne Virus service
• Complementary therapies
• Employment, training and education support
• An accredited Volunteer programme
• Outreach team
• Support for concerned others

Drop in or call for more information.

Adult Alcohol Treatment Services

Please follow this link for more information

Young people drugs and alcohol treatment service

Please follow this link for more information

Drug Intervention Programme (DIP) – Southern

Tel: 0800 7313 520

Criminal justice and treatment agencies working together with other services to provide a tailored solution for those who commit crime to fund their Class A Drug Misuse.

Advice, Information, Counselling and more

Alcoholics Anonymous

Tel: 08457 697 555 / 0207 4030 888

or visit www.alcoholics-anonymous.org.uk

Open 24 hours a day.

Office hours 9am-5pm Mon-Thurs and Friday 9am - 4:30pm

Al-Anon Family Groups (including teenagers)

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

Cocaine Anonymous

Tel: 0207 2841123

There are no local meetings of the CA, which operates in the same way as the NA, but they can be contacted for advice and support over the telephone. Open 10am-10pm.

Families Anonymous

Tel: 01223 513918

The group aims to help the family and friends of people with a current, suspected or former drug problem by providing mutual support; and offering a forum to share experiences and anxieties.

For more information please visit www.famanon.org.uk

Narcotics Anonymous

Tel: 0300 999 1212/ 07000 560545

Is a non-profit society of individuals for whom drugs have become a major problem; they are recovering addicts who meet regularly to help each other stay clean.

Groups run across the country and within Cambridgeshire. For more details on meetings in Cambridgeshire call the helpline, email nahelpline@ukna.org or visit www.ukna.org

National Helplines
FRANK

   Tel:0800 77 66 00

Release

   Tel: 08454 500 215

Drinkline

   Tel: 0800 917 8282

Narcotics Anonymous

   Tel: 0300 999 1212/ 07000 560545

Re-Solv

   Tel:01783 817885

PADA Parents Against Drug Abuse

   Tel: 08457 023 867

Needle Exchange & Disposal Points

Needle Exchanges in Pharmacies

Boots: Retail Park, Newmarket Road, Cambridge
Boots: Unit 5-6, Grafton Centre,Cambridge
Lloyds: 30 Trumpington Street, Cambridge
Petersfield: 34 Mill Road, Cambridge
Superdrug: Fitzroy Street, Cambridge
Superdrug: Sidney Street, Cambridge
Kumar: Rectory Terrace, Cherry Hinton, Cambridge
Kumar: 2 Edkin Corner, Cambridge
Boots: 237 Cherry Hinton Road, Cambridge
Rowlands: 189 Histon Road, Cambridge

Needle Disposal Points

Street needle bins	Public Toilet Cubicles
Mill Road, (Bath House) car park next to the recycling point	Mill Road/Gwydir Street
	Arbury Court
Grafton West multi-storey car park - lower deck	Gonville Place
	Park Street
Christs Pieces - gardeners shed	Chesterton Road
Lion Yard, Car Park, Level D	Victoria Avenue
	Lammas Land
	Cherry Hinton High Street
	Romsey Recreation Ground

Needle Collection & Disposal
Cambridge City:

01223 458282, 8am-6pm Mon - Fri

01223 457457 any other time

South Cambs:

08450 450 063 (24 hours)

                                                                  Last updated 2 Jul 2010