Treatment Centres
» Health Centre, Chester-le-Street
Newcastle Road
Chester-le-Street
Co Durham
DH3 3UR
Telephone number: 0191 333 6028
Opening Hours
Monday 9.00 a.m. - 5.00 p.m.
Tuesday 9.00 a.m. - 5.00 p.m.
Wednesday 9.00 a.m. - 5.00 p.m.
Thursday 9.00 a.m. - 5.00 p.m.
(NB Opening hours on alternative Thursdays are 9.00 a.m. - 7.00 p.m.)
Friday 9.00 a.m. - 5.00 p.m.
The Centre offers a variety of complementary therapies, including auricular acupuncture, electric stimulation therapy, aromatherapy, reflexology and Indian head massage with the harm minimisation service offering needle exchange, hepatitis immunisation programmes, screening for blood borne viruses and Chlamydia. There is also appropriate liaison with criminal justice treatment services in the area.
A Drugs in Sport Clinic and User Support (DISCUS) clinic is held 5.00 - 7.00 p.m. every week.
Area covered - Durham & Chester-le-Street
Specialist services offered
- Care-planned counselling
- Needle exchange services
- Outreach/responsive mobile harm Minimisation services
- Blood borne virus advice, testing and vaccination
- Overdose prevention training
- Support groups
- Prescribing
- Complementary therapies
- Access to advice and information (according to needs assessed)
- In-patient detoxification
- Residential rehabilitation
Special groups served
- Stimulant users
- Alcohol users
- Women drug users
- Performance and image enhancing drug users
- Homeless people
- Non-users and ex-users
- Black and minority ethnic communities
- Drug using parents
- Dual diagnosis clients
- Parents/carers/families support
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