Drug and Alcohol Services - East Riding Partnership

The East Riding Partnership offers a comprehensive support system for people struggling with substance misuse in the East Riding of Yorkshire. The partnership is a collaboration between the Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust and the Alcohol and Drug Service, providing a range of specialized services tailored for both adults and young people. Here’s an overview of the key services they offer:

Adult Services

1. Clinical Treatment
   Led by a consultant psychiatrist specializing in addictions, this service provides medical interventions, including detoxification, stabilization, and maintenance therapies.

2. Case Management
   A structured support system with prescribed and psychosocial interventions, where a recovery plan is customized and reviewed regularly to support individuals on their recovery journey.

3. Aftercare
   A 12-week one-on-one aftercare program aimed at equipping individuals with social and psychological skills for long-term recovery and reintegration into the community.

4. Primary Care Support
   This service works with prescribing GPs to help manage patients experiencing substance misuse, expanding accessible treatment locations across the region.

5. Optimise
   Focuses on helping individuals reduce or cease long-term prescribed medications, particularly analgesics and benzodiazepines, to mitigate health risks associated with prolonged use.

6. Criminal Justice Team
   Integrated with local criminal justice services, this team ensures continuity of care for individuals engaged with the justice system, both in community and custodial settings.

7. Community Rehabilitation Programme
   A 12-week abstinence-based day program offering tools and support for those reintegrating into the community post-recovery.

8. Inclusion Health Team
   Reaches out to homeless individuals and those recently released from prison using a mobile unit ("Inclusion Health bus") that provides health education, overdose prevention, and needle exchange services.

9. Changes Project (Service User and Family Support)
   Offers resources for service users, families, and carers, including SMART mutual aid groups and the Mentor Volunteer Programme to support both recovery and volunteer engagement.

10. The Juice Bar (Image & Performance Enhancing Drugs)
    A confidential service targeting users of image-enhancing drugs (such as anabolic steroids), offering advice and information on associated health risks and addiction support.

Young People Services

1. Core Team
   This multidisciplinary team ensures effective case management and works closely with the Child & Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) for young people dealing with both substance misuse and mental health concerns.

2. Making a Change
   Provides focused interventions for young people vulnerable to criminal or sexual exploitation.

3. Education and Liaison
   Engages with schools and colleges to educate young people on substance misuse risks, harm reduction, and resources for further support.

4. Parenting under Pressure (PuP)
   A therapeutic program to assist parents managing stress due to substance misuse and other challenges, supporting better family dynamics and parental wellbeing.

Each of these services operates from hubs in Goole, Bridlington, and Hull and satellite locations, ensuring accessible and personalized support across the East Riding area. For direct assistance, contact details are as follows:

• Hull: 01482 336675, hnf-tr.erphull@nhs.net
• Bridlington: 01262 458200, hnf-tr.erpbridlington@nhs.net
• Goole: 01405 608210, hnf-tr.erpgoole@nhs.net

This framework aims to provide comprehensive, community-based support to empower individuals and families dealing with substance misuse challenges.

Services - overview

Substance misuse is a complex issue that deserves to be better understood. If it’s better understood, then we are better placed to help.

Throughout our history we’ve listened, innovated, and learned. We’ve built our expertise and poured this into the services we offer. 

Recovery

An often-misunderstood concept and a concept many have difficulty explaining, it is often seen as being solely about abstinence. That unless people are ‘detoxing’, they’re not working on their recovery. We do not think this is helpful or an accurate way to think about a complex subject.

We understand recovery as having two elements.

1.    Personal Recovery

This the increase in wellbeing of an individual through the development of recovery capital to sustain the positive change and ensure resilience. This enables us to make ‘recovery’ relevant to everyone.

2.    Clinical Recovery

This is physical abstinence from the substance being used problematically

We believe that working on either or both these elements is working on your recovery. 

What do we do

When you come to one of our services for the first time you will be welcomed by a friendly member of the team. This may be someone who has had difficulties with substances themselves, someone who knows what it’s like.

Everyone’s experience is different so the support we offer is tailored to you. How do we do this?

·    First, we ask you to talk to us about your experience. And we listen.

·    Then, we talk with you about some things that might help, we ask you what you think. And we listen.

·    Finally, together we agree the plan. And together we begin to put it into action.

Whatever the plan we agree together, whether it includes one to one work, group work, prescribing or a mix of each, when we meet you, we will ask you how things are going. And we will listen. If what you say and what we hear indicates that you need extra or different support, if the plan needs changed, we will agree the changes with you. 

Something to suit you

We make sure we can offer the widest choice we can so you can find something to suit you. These include:

·    Specialist Image and Performance Enhancing Drugs (IPEDS), sometimes referred to under the collective name of steroids

·       Opioid Substitution Therapy

·       Alcohol treatment

·       Pharmacological interventions

·       Family

·       Young People

·       Structured Day Programmes

·       Outreach services

·       Criminal Justice Services

And many more