Drug and alcohol servicesavailable in Newcastle

Last reviewed: 30 October 2015

  • DnA Young People’s Service College Street, Newcastle

Support service for young people 18 and under, impacted by drugs or alcohol.

Opening hrs: Monday – Friday 9-5pm, Tel: 0191 2777377

  • Lifeline Harm Reduction Service, 43 Clayton Street, Newcastle

Offers harm reduction advice, information and support, assessment, referrals, testing, needle exchange, medical interventions and volunteer opportunities. Nurse available. Opening hrs: Mon - Fri 10–6pm. Tel: 0191 2614719

Lifeline integrated care coordination, psychosocial and recovery support service.Bridgeview House, 15 – 23 City Road, Newcastle

Offers structured psychosocial interventions to address substance misuse, along with care coordination and recovery support.

Opening hours: Mon –Thu 10 – 4.30pm, Fri 10 – 3.30pm. Tel:0191 2811828

  • Newcastle User and Carer Forum

c/o Public Health, Room 114, Civic Centre, Newcastle

To enable service user and carer involvement, engagement, consultation and communication in relation to provision in the city. Also offers peer led support, training, volunteer opportunities, advocacy and mentoring, including at Trading Places peer led support service at Ron Eager House (fortnightly – Sundays). Opening hours: Mon – Fri 9-5pm. Tel: 0191 2788126

  • Drug and Alcohol Liaison Midwife, Royal Victoria Infirmary,

Co-ordinates the care of pregnant women who misuse drugs and alcohol ensuring they receive a high standard of maternity care, preferably within mainstream services.Opening hours Mon – Fri 9-5.30pm. Tel: 0191 2336161

  • Northumberland and Tyne and Wear Mental Health Trust (Plummer Court), Carliol Place

Specialist alcohol and drug misuse treatment interventions including substitute prescribing, clinical assessment, and inpatient detoxification to those experiencing drug, alcohol and co morbid mental health problems.NTW Addictions also offer support, through CAMHS, for under 18s. Opening hours Mon – Fri 9 to 8pm, Sat & Sun 10-6 pmTel: 0191 2061100

  • Drug and Alcohol Social Work Team, Westgate Community Complex

Provide assessment for clients wishing to access residential rehabilitation.Opening hours Mon – Fri 9-5.30. Tel: 0191 2788100

  • Oaktrees, Changing Lives

Oaktrees offers abstinence-based, structured, day programme of support based on a self-help model which aims to empower people to take responsibility for their recovery. Tel: 0191 477 2205

  • Ridley Villas, Changing Lives

Ridley Villas is a supported accommodation service providing support to women with children living in Newcastle and Gateshead, who require support to help overcome drug and/or alcohol addiction, to continue to achieve and sustain abstinence by accessing appropriate treatment. Tel: 0191 232 9181

  • The Recovery Centre, Changing Lives

The service is open to anyone in Newcastle and Gateshead who deem themselves to be in recovery. The centre will be a place of safety for those moving forward, with all forms of recovery programmes welcome. We offer peer based recovery services, telephone recovery support, recovery support groups, recovery orientated employment support, workshops and training.

Family Support

  • PROPS (Positive Responses to Overcoming Problematic Substance abuse in the family), 26 Hawthorne Terrace, CruddasPark

Provide support and advice to the families and carers of problematic drug / alcohol misusers (including group work, one to one, support groups, accompanying on visits for example to prison, court etc).

Opening hours 8.30 – 8pmTel: 0191 2263440

Other services

  • Alcohol Anonymous. 0191 521 4400
  • Narcotics Anonymous. 999 1212