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Lifeline – Drug and Alcohol Addiction Support

Lifeline provide an integrated, single service, for adults and young people comprises of four key elements, offering the individual and their families integrated treatment journeys from the point of initial identification, through treatment and into recovery support on completion of structured treatment.

Services include:

  • Prevention and pre-treatment programmes
  • Assertive outreach
  • Assessment
  • Harm reduction services e.g. needle exchange, blood borne virus testing and vaccination, performance and image enhancing drugs clinic etc.
  • Prescribing services
  • Psycho-social support
  • Family support and intervention
  • Recovery planning and coordination
  • Access to community/inpatient detoxification, quasi and residential rehabilitation
  • Access to Recovery Hubs/peer support
  • Access to mutual aid

All of which is aimed at reorienting the system to deliver consistent, high quality, recovery focused interventions, irrespective of age or substance used.

Objectives

  • To improve outcomes for service users and their families
  • To ensure that communities benefit, as individuals recover from dependency
  • To make efficiencies from the current system to ensure there is best value for money.
  • To make the client journey through treatment services more successful identifying key pathways with other services and strengthening these to ensure better outcomes for service users.
  • To remove duplication
  • To ensure an appropriate focus on prevention and early intervention

Centres

 

Dales – Castlebridge Centre, 42 Market Place, Bishop Auckland, DL14 7PB

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Lifeline (Dales) 54.665579, -1.674579 Castlebridge Centre, 42 Market Place, Bishop Auckland, DL14 7PB More information...

Consett –  1Station Road, Consett, DH8 5RL

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Lifeline (Consett) 54.850844, -1.826952 1 Station Road, Consett, DH8 5RL More information...

Durham – 81 – 88 Whinney Hill, DH1 3BQ

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Lifeline (Durham) 54.772184, -1.566314 81 - 88 Whinney Hill, Durham DH1 3BQ More information...

Peterlee –  Ridgmount House, 4th Floor, SR8 1EA

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Lifeline (Peterlee) 54.759605, -1.336833 Ridgmount House, 4th Floor, SR8 1EA

Seaham – 37 Church Street, SR7 7EJ

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Lifeline (Seaham) 54.837162, -1.335500 37 Church Street, SR7 7EJ More information...

Newton Aycliffe – Thames House, Beveridge Way, Newton Aycliffe, DL5  4SH

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Lifeline (Newton Aycliffe) 54.619680, -1.572225 Thames House, Beveridge Way, Newton Aycliffe, DL5  4SH More information...

 

Single Central Telephone Number: 03000 266 666

 

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