Substance Misuse - Alcohol Service
We provide packages of care to assist in reducing alcohol intake (health permitting) or to become abstinent and access to psycho-social interventions.
The service works collaboratively with mental health teams and recognises that alcohol is a relapsing condition, and we endeavour to support service users with their daily life skills, equipping you with strategies to cope and fulfil your aspirations.
Alcohol is freely available and sold openly so avoidance is not really an option. Therefore after undergoing inpatient or community detoxification you will be offered time limited Relapse Prevention Sessions to build on the current changes made in health and wellbeing by utilising the psycho-social intervention PSI support services.
All clinicians work with mental health team colleagues for ease of care co-ordination and to facilitate discharge packages to reduce relapsing into alcohol intake. All clinicians work with individual GP practices enabling the alcohol service to share care arrangements, therefore being able to see more people for treatment and facilitate care back to their GP in an agreed manner with contingency plans in place for relapses.
Our outpatient clinics have put in place a new streamlined and effective clinic structure to maximise the number of appointments available, to reduce waiting times and ensure there is enough time to share your personal concerns with a doctor.
Interventions we offer:
- Brief interventions
- Support to training of GPs to increase knowledge to manage alcohol related illnesses in the practices; enhancing local provision and access to treatment in your area
- Advice and consultation on specific cases to other specialists
- Joint working with Specialist Mental Health Services (where indicated)
- Refer onto Psycho Social Interventions (PSI) to sustain changes made in treatment interventions
- Identify, on assessment, your risk factors and discuss protective factors to manage those risks using a care planned approach
- Give advice in relation to intoxication
- Give advice on the use of prescribed or unprescribed medications, the risk of overdose and accidental death
- Explain the consequences of alcohol intake on mental, physical and forensic wellbeing
Publications
Alcohol Services leaflet Click here to download the file
Open Access Alcohol Services leaflet Click here to download the file
Guidelines for Community Alcohol Detoxification (71KB)
Policy for Prescribing Acamprosate in Sheffield (29KB)
Antabuse leaflet (115KB)
This page was last updated on 3rd August 2011
