Treatment Centres
» ESMI (Easington Substance Misuse Initiative), Peterlee
3rd floor, Lee House
Yoden Way
Peterlee
Co Durham
SR8 1BB
Telephone number: 0191 587 2194
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.
Friday 9.00a.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.
Client age group – Adults
Area covered – Peterlee and Easington
Specialist services offered
- Structured day programmes
- Care-planned counselling
- Needle exchange
- Outreach
- Blood borne virus advice and vaccination
- Support groups
- Prescribing
- Complementary therapies
- Advice and information
- In-patient detoxification
- Residential rehabilitation
- Housing/employment/education advice
Special groups served
- Stimulant users
- Alcohol users
- Women 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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