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JOB VACANCYWe are currently recruiting for an administrator. To find out more about this role and receive a job application form,please email Chair@sdac-helpline.co.uk or call Helpline 0808 802 5000.
We provide non-judgmental support and counselling for everyone.
Alcohol Issues
Drug Addiction
Mental Health
Counselling
You can get help today ...
Our Helpline Advisors are available 27/7 offering a non-judgemental, supportive and professional service.
We listen to understand our callers struggles and then advise on services or refer directly into treatment with Telephone Counselling Service or partner agencies. Sometimes, just talking about thoughts and feelings, can be enough to make a change or to feel better.
Our BACP Registered Counsellors and support advisors help people to learn about themselves, use their own knowledge and skills to create a healthy way of living and learn new ones along the way.
NAXOLONE SUPPORT & AVAILABILITY!
Naloxone is a drug that can reverse the effects of opioids, such as heroin, methadone, opium, codeine, morphine, and buprenorphine. Naloxone doses can even save someone’s life if it’s used quickly after they’ve overdosed on opioids and gives extra time for emergency help to arrive. The effects of naloxone don’t last very long (about 8 to 30 minutes) so it’s important to always call 999 and ask for an ambulance when you use it. Ambulance crews have been using naloxone in emergencies for many years. We want to make sure that anyone who needs it, has it to hand and knows how to use it.
Information and support
When you’re living with a mental health problem, having access to the right information is vital. Go to our information pages to find out more.
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Helping someone else
It can be hard to know what to do when supporting someone with a mental health problem. Our information includes helpful advice on giving support.
Drug Related Death/Non Fatal Overdose
Death by overdose is loaded with social and moral stigmas, in addition to strong feelings of anger, helplessness, guilt and shame within families. Families do not always know that a loved one is using drugs, so when a death by overdose occurs, it deprives family members of preventative action.
Boot Camp Offers Recovery Support
Boot Camp provides a rapid therapeutic intervention for those wanting recovery from substance misuse. The Boot Camp offers recovery support in your own environment and aims to help people to understand their addiction, develop healthy coping mechanisms and remain in long-term recovery.
Telephone Counselling
The Telephone Counselling Service (TCS) was launched in 2010 to address the obstacles of attending face to face sessions offered by other agencies, including disabilities; lack of access to suitable transport or childcare; difficult working patterns; chaotic lifestyles or social shame and anxiety.
Help and Volunteer
To take an active role in the charity activities. Responsible for governance, safeguarding and strategic direction of the charity with other board members. To work in partnership and to support contractors and volunteers helping them to achieve the aims of the organisation.
A Million Steps in a Month - a charity crowdfunding project for SDAC
This August, I’m walking over 1,000,000 steps for Surrey Drug and Alcohol Care (SDAC), the charity that helped me rebuild my life. My target is £10,000—£1 for every 100 steps. A number of years ago, the odds of me turning my life around felt a million to one. My drinking had taken me somewhere I couldn’t see a way out of. Then I found SDAC and its free Telephone Counselling and Boot Camp Service. It gave me structure, a roadmap out of the darkness and hope when I had none. I got sober and rebuilt my life. That change has reached my family, friends, community and others I’ve since helped towards recovery. SDAC’s intensive, personal Boot Camp is free to everyone who needs it—but it survives because people fund it.
From 1–31 August, I’ll walk more than one million steps—around 500 miles. That’s roughly 32,000 steps every day, with no days off.
North Downs 50 Ultra: 50km on 1 August
South Downs Way: 160km from Winchester to Eastbourne, 2–7 August
London Summer Walk: 25km on 22 August
There will be many more miles—and opportunities to join me—along the way.
A £5 donation carries me 500 steps; £50 carries me 5,000. I’m contributing the first £500, and a generous local business has pledged another £500, putting us at £1,000 before the first step. Businesses can also sponsor a full day for £500. Every pound helps keep SDAC’s helpline and Boot Camp available for the next person searching for a way out.
Please Donate—however much you can. Follow my daily videos on Instagram @amillionstepsinamonth and track my progress on Strava.
If you or someone you love is struggling with addiction, call SDAC’s free, confidential helpline on 0808 802 5000. It’s the call that changed my life. It all starts with a single step. Thank you for being part of mine.
I am raising money by walking the Camino from Porto (Portugal) to Santiago (Spain) approx 170 miles, carrying my own backpack all the way on this pilgrimage. I hope, that by making my intention, to raise funds and challenge myself at 58 years of age, to walk this journey, I will raise funds for this charitable cause, that is very important to me, so please donate and help me reach my target in aid of SURREY DRUG AND ALCOHOL CARE LIMITED. Anything you can contribute towards helping me achieve my target will be massively appreciated.
The money will ensure that anyone within Surrey area, struggling with mental health/substance misuse and significant others can access therapeutic counselling and group support for complex bereavement, abstinent bootcamp and significant others (family/loved ones).
How we use your donations
1,300
Queries answered by our helplines in 2024-2025
99%
of what we receive we spent on our charitable work in 2024-2025
22,272
information pages accessed in 2024
Every £1,000
allows us to do all the below ...
Run 46 counselling sessions
Enable 4 people to attend our bootcamp
Help 5 people attend our DRD/NFO groups
Take 15 calls on our helpline
Help 1 professional with information, advice and guidance about drugs or alcohol
How did you hear about us?
It would really help us if you could say where you first heard of our charity...
Suites GO9 & GO10, Part Ground Floor, Old Millmead House, Millmead, Guildford.
GU2 4BB
TEL: 0808 802 5000
