You can get support with a drug, alcohol, smoking or gambling addiction. This can help you take steps to cut down or quit.
Drink and drugs support
If you’re worried or want to see if your drinking is affecting your health, you can answer questions about your drinking habits online.
Based on your score, you’ll get advice, information or a way to self-refer to free and confidential support.
Take the ‘What type of Drinker are You’ quiz
Get advice about drink and drugs on Live Well Greenwich
If you’re over 18 and live in Greenwich, you can get free and confidential drug or alcohol advice and support from Via Greenwich.
Or call Via Greenwich on 0300 303 4552.
Find out more about the Greenwich Combating Drugs Partnership
Naloxone for opioid overdose
Naloxone is an emergency antidote to opiate overdose.
It counteracts the effects of opioid drugs (such as heroin, methadone and fentanyl) and reverses the life-threatening effects of an overdose.
You can get more information and a naloxone kit for future use at https://www.viaorg.uk/services/greenwich/
Stop smoking support
Get advice and support that can help you cut down and quit smoking.
Gambling advice and support
Some people enjoy gambling sometimes. But for some people it can be hard to stop. This can affect your mental health, relationships, your job and your finances.
Understand if you may have a problem and find NHS gambling treatment clinics
Get advice about gambling and find support on Live Well Greenwich
Peer support from others with experience with addiction
If you have quit alcohol or drugs, it can help to talk to others who can support you through recovery. They often offer online or face-to-face meetings.
There are two main types of recovery meetings. Both have helped people recover from addiction.
Fellowship meetings like Alcoholics Anonymous (AA)
Fellowship meetings offer a spiritual 12 step process for recovery. In meetings, people share their addiction story and their journey to sobriety.
- Find a Cocaine Anonymous meeting
- Find an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting
- Find a Gamblers Anonymous meeting
SMART recovery meetings
SMART recovery meetings focus on the addictive behaviour, not the substance itself. They concentrate on setting goals for the present and future, not focussing on the past.
The meetings use evidence-based tools and techniques such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy.
Get mental health and addiction support
Drugs and alcohol can make the symptoms of mental health worse. Some drugs may increase your risk of mental health conditions and make them harder to treat.
Oxleas can support people in Greenwich who have a mental health condition and addiction. The support can help you cut down or stop drinking or using drugs and help you find ways to prevent relapse.
Your GP or other healthcare professionals can refer you or you can refer yourself.
Visit Oxleas to access the mental health, alcohol and drug service
Get housing support
Two thirds of homeless people say drug or alcohol was a reason they first became homeless.
Get support if you have an addiction and are experiencing homelessness