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North Somerset Drug & Alcohol Service

Checked: 23-08-2021 by Vicky Ryan Next Review: 23-04-2022

Overview

Please see the Opiate Dependence page on Remedy for general advice and information about OST across BNSSG.

The Alcohol Use Disorder Identification Test (AUDIT) has been developed by the World Health Organization as a simple screening tool to pick up the early signs of hazardous and harmful drinking and identify possible alcohol dependence.

Downloadable version for patient self assessment here.

We Are With You

Addaction have change they're name to - We Are With You who provide drug and alcohol services for North Somerset.

We Are With You provide a full range of services including:

Specialist treatment for both drug and alcohol problems.
A new programme of treatment for over the counter and prescription only medication.
Programmes for benzo users, legal high users as well as programmes for woman, older people, younger adults and veterans.
Interventions and support for co-existing mental health and physical health problems.
A smoking cessation programme for existing service users.
Courses to improve life-skills, education, and readiness for employment.
Support for families and carers
Needle and syringe exchange services

Patients can self refer by phone: 01934 427940 or using the website online chat function North Somerset - We Are With You

Or GPs can refer using the referral form and emailing it to: ns.wearewithyou@nhs.net

There is also information on the BNSSG ICB website

Children (aged 18 and under) - see Children and Young People section of Remedy

Efforts are made to ensure the accuracy and agreement of these guidelines, including any content uploaded, referred to or linked to from the system. However, BNSSG ICB cannot guarantee this. This guidance does not override the individual responsibility of healthcare professionals to make decisions appropriate to the circumstances of the individual patient, in consultation with the patient and/or guardian or carer, in accordance with the mental capacity act, and informed by the summary of product characteristics of any drugs they are considering. Practitioners are required to perform their duties in accordance with the law and their regulators and nothing in this guidance should be interpreted in a way that would be inconsistent with compliance with those duties.

Information provided through Remedy is continually updated so please be aware any printed copies may quickly become out of date.