Treatment and support services

This section gives information on drug and alcohol treatment and support services available across Northern Ireland. There are a wide range of services available from short term extended brief interventions to more longer term community based or residential based one to one therapeutic treatment services. There are also services which offer ongoing recovery focussed group support, services which offer advice and support for your wider needs such as housing and ‘low threshold’ services specifically set up for those not yet ready or able to engage with mainstream or longer term treatment services.

Drug and alcohol services operate within a ‘Tiered Model’ and before searching for a service it might be useful to click here and learn more about what type of help and support is available at each ‘Tier.’ This may help you to better understand which level of support you might need or prefer and to better fine-tune your search options or to filter your results.

Region: SEHSCT/SEDACT

NSES is an completely confidential service that provides free sterile injecting equipment to injecting drug users (of any type i.e. illegal opioids or stimulants, steroids or tanning solutions), alongside health promotion information or advice - the services can then safely dispose of any used injecting equipment on your return visit

Region: WHSCT/WDACT

NSES is an completely confidential service that provides free sterile injecting equipment to injecting drug users (of any type i.e. illegal opioids or stimulants, steroids or tanning solutions), alongside health promotion information or advice - the services can then safely dispose of any used injecting equipment on your return visit

Region: WHSCT/WDACT

NSES is an completely confidential service that provides free sterile injecting equipment to injecting drug users (of any type i.e. illegal opioids or stimulants, steroids or tanning solutions), alongside health promotion information or advice - the services can then safely dispose of any used injecting equipment on your return visit

Region: BHSCT/BDACT

This service is funded to collect discarded injecting paraphernalia in Belfast. Known as the Street Injectors Support Service (SISS), staff assertively engage with street injectors in Belfast and collect and dispose of inappropriately discarded injecting equipment

 

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A needle exchange scheme is a completely confidential service that provides free sterile injecting equipment to injecting drug users (of any type i.e. illegal opioids or stimulants, steroids or tanning solutions), alongside health promotion information or advice - the services can then safely dispose of any used injecting equipment on your return visit

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NSES is a completely confidential service that provides free sterile injecting equipment to injecting drug users (of any type i.e. illegal opioids or stimulants, steroids or tanning solutions), alongside health promotion information or advice - the services can then safely dispose of any used injecting equipment on your return visit

Region: WHSCT/WDACT

First Housing Low Threshold (Harm Reduction) is aimed at those who misuse alcohol and drugs at harmful levels and / or in harmful patterns of use but are not able to commit to formal treatment. First Housing work with clients who may lead chaotic lives and need assistance to reduce serious harm to themselves, arising from their problematic drug or alcohol use. This service provides a range of physical, social and psychological interventions and supports, depending on the specific needs of each individual. Examples include providing sterile injecting equipment and advice on safer injecting, or helping someone to access, or remain in, stable accommodation.

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Need off drugs

Region: BHSCT/BDACT

One to one support for alcohol and/or drug misuse (and other associated issues)

Open Access / Self Referrals Accepted

Region: BHSCT/BDACT

One to one therapuetic treatment and support service for those aged 18+ misusing alcohol and/or drugs. Family members can also get advice and support regardless of whether their significant other is seeking help.

Referral process: Open Access/ Self Referrals Accepted