Drugs Support

How can I get drug support?

If you have a problem with drug addiction, we have services to help.

Support face to face if you’re under 25

Blackpool Adolescent Service provides free and confidential support for young people with drug, alcohol and sexual health issues. The service is available to all young people aged 10 to 24. Interventions range from drug awareness, harm reduction as well as access to clinical prescribing services for substance abuse and clinical sexual health support.

Young people can self-refer using the link below or by using the telephone number below to arrange an appointment.

Make a self-referral

Opening hours: Monday to Friday between 9.00am and 5.00pm

Blackpool Adolescent Service
Talbot and Brunswick Family Hub
Gorton Street
Blackpool
FY1 3JW

Telephone: 01253 754840

Blackpool Adolescent Service - More information

Self-refer

Support face to face if you’re over 25

Horizon provides drugs advice and treatment for people living in Blackpool, including those worried about a family member, partner or friend.

They provide:

One-to-one behavioural support
Easy-to-find and central locations
Health screening
Counselling

Horizon website

Connect, Ground Floor,
102 Dickson Road, Blackpool FY1 2BU,
Telephone: 01253 205156

Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9.00am to 5.00pm
(Half Day Wednesday, Open 1.00pm to 5.00pm)

If you’re going to continue to use drugs, try and stay safer by:

Not using them alone and always telling someone what you’ve taken
Always using clean needles and not share equipment
Not mixing drugs with other drugs, including alcohol
Not using in an unsafe place
Never using drugs and driving
Contacting Horizon for access to take-home Naloxone for you and/or friends or family

Horizon Blackpool

Horizon LGBT

I Need Drugs Support

If you’d like more information on reducing harm, including how to get clean needles, visit:

Ren-UK website

For honest information on drugs, their effects and the law, visit:

Talk To Frank website

PSHE

Personal, social, health and economic education is a school curriculum subject in England that focuses on strengthening the knowledge, skills, and connections to keep children and young people healthy and safe and prepare them for life and work.

Schools should refer to the DfE statutory guidance to inform their delivery.

In addition, below are resources designed to support you in your work within schools around implementation of relationships education, relationships and sex education and health education. It includes the latest links to RSHE resources and trusted national organisations.

1. Consulting with parents and pupils, and developing policy
2. What to teach and how to teach it
3. Sustaining success

Key areas of RSHE

The introduction of statutory RSHE in September 2020 focuses on mandatory education in the following areas:

Mental wellbeing

Internet safety and harms

Physical health and fitness

Healthy eating

Drugs, alcohol and tobacco

Health and prevention

Basic first aid

Changing adolescent body

STI Symptom Checker

Unusual discharge
Pain, burning or increase in weeing
Rashes, lumps or blisters
Stinging, itching or tingling
Pain and/or bleeding during sex
Bleeding after sex

Pain in the testicles (balls)
Pain or tenderness in the lower tummy
Irregular bleeding
Strong, unpleasant smell from the vagina after sex
Painful swelling of penis, testicles or foreskin
Brown eggs on pubic or other body hair
No Symptoms

Get tested if you have any of these symptoms, a sexual partner has symptoms or you’re worried after having sex without a condom. Many STIs have no symptoms at all, like HIV. The only way to know for sure is to get tested.