Angus Integrated Drug and Alcohol Recovery Service (AIDARS)

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Email: alcoholdrugbbv@angus.gov.uk
Telephone: 01241 822 502
Address: Gowanlea, 12-14 Seaton Road, Arbroath, DD11 5DT

AIDARS is an integrated health and social work service incorporating Angus Council’s Alcohol, Drugs and Blood Borne Virus Team and NHS Tayside’s Substance Misuse Service. AIDARS provides a person-centred, whole family approach to assessment and intervention with adults who misuse drugs and alcohol.

AIDARS covers the whole of Angus through two locality-based teams. The North Locality Team covers Brechin, Montrose, Forfar and Kirriemuir. The South Locality Team covers Arbroath, Carnoustie and Monifieth.

Services provided include:

  • motivational and enhancement therapy
  • in-patient and community detox for alcohol, opiates and opiate replacement therapy
  • recovery care planning and self-directed support
  • overdose awareness (including Naloxone dispensing), harm reduction, and BBV testing and support
  • relapse prevention in groups and one-to-one, supported by medication if required
  • psychological interventions

SMART Recovery

Website: https://vaalocalitylocator.scot/listing/forfar/-/smart-recovery/
Email: AngusADP@angus.gov.uk
Telephone: 01307 474 879
Address: Forfar Community Church, Wellbraehead, Forfar, DD8 3AY
Opening Hours:

  • Monday: 4pm – 5pm & 5pm – 6pm

Free mutual support meetings where through open and confidential discussion we help ourselves and each other recover from any kind of addictive behaviour

Meetings at Forfar Community Church, Wellbraehead, Forfar, DD8 3AY on Mondays from 5pm – 6pm

Drop in Cafe also runs before this meeting, same location on Mondays from 4pm-5pm

Tayside Council on Alcohol (TCA)

Website: https://alcoholtayside.com/
Email: enquiries@alcoholtayside.com
Telephone: 01241 872 989
Address: 22-24 Catherine Street, Arbroath, DD11 1RL

Whether you are looking for support for yourself, worried about a friend or someone in your family, a professional looking for information or advice, we can help.

We deliver services across the three local authorities of Tayside, but services in each area are adapted to meet the needs of the Angus, Dundee and Perth & Kinross communities. Those services in Angus are:

  • Adult counselling
  • Young people’s counselling
  • Creative therapies
  • Support groups for adults
  • Kith‘n’Kin
  • The Crew
  • Friday Nite project
  • 16+
  • Connect 1-1
  • School Input
  • Support in Recovery