Lead contact
Kevin Thorpe
Client Group
18+ age group
Services Offered
The Community Alcohol Team is staffed by Health and Adult Social Care and Health personnel working in active partnership, in order to provide a free and confidential service.
The service offers an extensive service to individuals, families and groups. This takes the format of delivering realistic, accurate advice and information, education, training, counselling, community detoxification programmes, relapse prevention initiatives, brief intervention techniques, negotiated in-patient detoxification and assessment for residential rehabilitation.
The service accepts referrals via the telephone or letter from the individual concerned parents/carers, GPs and others. All packages of intervention are mutually negotiated and agreed with the individual concerned.
