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Dependency & Addiction

Addiction is complex and can take over your life. Regain control and take the first step to recovery, today.

Addiction is complex and can take over your life. Regain control and take the first step to recovery, today.

If you are looking to take your first steps in treatment for drug or alcohol addiction, you can get NHS care in the same manner you would for any other health problem.

Depending on your situation, a number of options are available to you.

You will then have a treatment plan which may include:

  • Talking therapies
  • Treatment with medicines
  • Detoxification
  • Self-help strategies

How to identify addiction

  • An inability to stay away from a certain substance or behaviour.
  • Relationships suffering and abandoning commitments.
  • Taking risks in order to gain the substance or complete the behaviour.
  • Feeling withdrawal symptoms or increasing dosage to feel the same effect.

Members Directory

Find local support from organisations and healthcare experts

Drug and Alcohol Single Point of Access (DASPA)

Support and Services

0808 808 2234

  • A self-referral service for service users, family members, concerned others and professionals to obtain advice or make a referral to all substance misuse services across Cwm Taf.

Cwm Taf Morgannwg Mind Recovery College

Support and Services

01685 707480

  • A support programme to assist you through recovery. Mind also work to remove the stigma surrounding mental and physical health issues, like addiction.

Charities & organisations

Local charities and organisations who you can reach out to.

ADFAM

Charities and Organisations

03339 993577

  • Empowering family members, carers and frontline workers affected by addiction.

Drinkaware

Charities and Organisations

020 7766 9900

  • Helping to change the UK’s drinking habits for the better.

Alcohol Change UK

Charities and Organisations

020 3907 8480

  • Leading UK charity for reducing the harm caused by alcohol.