Alcohol Services

Referral Routes - How to access Harbour services

You can access the Harbour service by:

Personal visit – call in and book an assessment appointment
E-mail – send the on-line self-assessment form to us
Telephone – ring (01752) 434343 and book an assessment
Professional – see your GP, or other professional, e.g. support worker and ask them to refer you

Harbour will not make judgements about you the person. We use clinical assessment tools to indicate the level of the problem…

What we can offer you

We can offer you a service if you reside in the Plymouth area or are registered with a Plymouth GP.

1 Assessment/information

Assess your own drinking – click on this to take the AUDIT quiz

• Categories of drinking

Further Information

2 Brief Intervention

We offer a minimum of 2 hour-long 1:1 sessions consisting of:
alcohol education, health information, working on motivation to change, setting goals for reduction of drinking and/or referral to other services e.g. housing, benefits, health services etc.

3 Structured Intervention

We offer 6 hour-long 1:1 sessions over 12 weeks consisting of: care co-ordination plus all of the above in Brief Intervention and referral, if necessary, for additional services e.g. alcohol detoxification.

4 Detox - home or residential

Community (Home) Detox – a medically assisted withdrawal from alcohol which takes place in your own home and is overseen by a qualified nurse using medication prescribed by your own GP. You will need to have someone around to support/check on you during this one week period.

Residential Detox – an alcohol detox in a residential setting with 24 hour nursing cover which includes attendance at group sessions and 1:1 counselling.

5 Referral to other support services e.g. housing, benefits, etc.

Other areas of life which drinking can affect.

Drinking alcohol can be a way of coping with many of the problems we face in life, e.g. relationship issues, loss, trauma, illness, financial difficulties, employment/work, emotional problems, anxiety, self-confidence, the list is endless.

Whatever the issue, Harbour can help by sign-posting you to the appropriate external services to support and help you learn the skills you need to tackle your problems, e.g. structured day programmes, Adult Social Care, carer’s assessments, housing, benefits, counselling services etc.

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