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The clinical team led by a consultant psychiatrist (specialist in addictions) provide the full range of medical interventions, stabilisation, maintenance and detoxification.
Case management support is offered delivering both prescribing and psychosocial interventions to support people in their recovery. The recovery plan agreed includes the option of access to all elements of service provided and is reviewed regularly.
Structured aftercare support is offered on a one-to-one basis across a 12-week timeframe to ensure that service users have the social and psychological skills in place to manage their own recovery and successfully (re)integrate into the community.
The team support prescribing GPs with the management of their own practice patients who are experiencing problems with drug or alcohol use. This approach increases the number of locations across the area where drug and alcohol services are available to local people.
A service providing support to people in primary care who may have been prescribed medication for significant periods of time, typically the medication concerned include analgesics (pain killers) and benzodiazepines. Medications such as these when used for prolonged periods can have detrimental impacts on the life and wellbeing of the taker.
The service operates in GP surgeries working with the patient and prescriber to find regime for the patient. This usually involves a cessation of or, significant reduction in prescribed medication.
The team works closely with the criminal justice partners including, the probation service, police and prisons the team is co-located across each of the service hubs ensuring integration with the wider service and coverage of the area.
The team focuses on ensuring the continuity of care is maintained for those people involved with the criminal justice system, whether that be pre or post sentence in a custodial or community setting.
Whilst offering specialist criminal justice support the team also ensure access to all service elements provided by the service.
Becoming drug or alcohol free is big a step but for many people re-establishing themselves back in the community is the most challenging part of the recovery journey. This 12 week abstinence based Structured Day Programme is designed to ensure participants have the tools, skills and support networks needed to sustain their recovery.
The aim is to make help accessible for every resident of the East Riding.
The team, work with people who find it difficult to access services including those who are homeless, and people released from prison. An outreach and in-reach approach is used. Prison in-reach make contact with people before they are released and an outreach approach seeks contact with people who are homeless. Using the Health Inclusion bus the team also provide health education, overdose prevention and mobile needle exchange services.
The Changes Project works to provide support for service users in treatment for recovery within the service, family members and careers, mutual aid support through SMART groups and the Mentor volunteer programme.
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Families and careers
Family and careers of people with addiction can feel helpless by what is sometimes described as the chaos that surrounds them. It affects not just the person with the problem but those closest to them. We offer a range of different support for family and careers and offer the
Volunteer Mentors
Peer Mentors play a valuable role in supporting people in their recovery journey, and volunteering supports the recovery of the volunteer. All Peer Mentors are qualified through our accredited training programme.