Alcohol and other Drug (AOD) Services

in Central Australia

What is a drug?

World Health Organisation definition:

‘any substance, with the exception of

food and water that when taken into

the body alters it physically and/or

psychologically’

WServices that can assist

Alice Springs

Alcohol and other Drug Services

Central Australia (ADSCA)

Central Australia Aboriginal Alcohol

Program Unit (CAAAPU)

Drug & Alcohol Service Association

(DASA)

Central Australian Aboriginal Congress

Safe & Sober Support Service (SSSS)

Headspace

Holyoake

Tennant Creek

Alcohol and other Drug Services

Central Australia (ADSCA)

Barkly Region Alcohol and Drug Abuse

Advisory Group (BRADAAG)

ADSCA

6 Gap RoadServices

Assessment

Ambulatory withdrawal

Opiate Substitution Therapy

Specialist Counselling

Volatile Substance Abuse case

management

Volatile Substance Abuse Management

Plans

Alcohol Mandatory Treatment (Alice

Springs Alcohol Assessment Service)

Education

Training

Medical support

Criteria

Tobacco, alcohol, all other drugs

Adults, juveniles, families

BushMobPriest Street

Services

Residential - 24 hour care

20 beds

Case management

Outreach

Counselling

Brief interventions

VSA and AOD program

Life skills development programs

Criteria

Young people 12-25 years

Substance abuse

Violence

Unsafe living environment

Disempowered

CAAAPURagonesi Road

Services

Residential 8 week program

35 beds

Counselling

Outreach service

Alcohol Mandatory Treatment –

residential 3 month program

Criteria

Adult

Aboriginal

Alcohol

AMT Tribunal order

Congress Safe &

Sober Support

ServiceLeichhardt Terrace

Services

Outreach

Counselling

Brief interventions

Social support

Medical support

Criteria

Adult

Aboriginal

?

DASASchwartz Cres

Services

Aranda House residential 8 week

program

20 beds

Transitional aftercare

Sobering Up Shelter

Outreach

Brief interventions

Counselling

Criteria

Adult

Alcohol and other drugs

HeadspaceStott Terrace

Services

Counselling

Medical support

Criteria

12 – 25 years

Alcohol, tobacco and other drugs

Holyoake

Newland Street

Services

Managing your life program – 12 week

Skills for life program – 12 week group

Counselling

Adolescents program – 10 week

Criteria

12 years to adult

Alcohol, drugs, gambling

Remote AOD

Workforce

Services

Coordinates AOD workers in remote

areas

Has a list of remote communities

where AOD workers are located

Based in AMS & DoH clinics

?

BRADAAGStaunton Street

Services

Residential 3 months

20 beds

Sobering Up Shelter

Transitional Aftercare Program

Outreach

Criteria

Adult

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