In an emergency call 000. For alcohol and other drug support, the National Alcohol and Other Drug Hotline is 1800 250 015 — free, confidential, 24 hours.
TREATMENT SERVICE
THE SERVICE
Townsville Hospital and Health Service's alcohol, tobacco and other drugs service, based at North Ward Health Campus with a second site at Vincent Health Campus. It provides intake and assessment, outpatient withdrawal management, an opiate substitution program, counselling for adults and for young people aged 8 to 25, the Diversionary and Recovery Team, a needle and syringe program and health promotion. Walk-in intake runs weekday mornings and early afternoons.
Published as not offered here: residential rehabilitation.
Ask the admissions team how withdrawal would be handled and how a transfer into treatment works.
CARE & DAILY LIFE
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COST
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State funded
ONGOING SUPPORT
Details of ongoing support are not published here. Ask the service what support is available when your treatment ends.
PROFESSIONAL ENDORSEMENTS
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Last checked against the service’s own material on 7 September 2026. Services change what they offer, so confirm anything that decides your choice.
Centacare North Queensland is the social services agency of the Catholic Diocese of Townsville, working from 410 Ross River Road, Cranbrook and centres at Mount Isa, Bowen, Cloncurry and Normanton. The Townsville centre delivers counselling, family support, mediation, disability and youth services.
Lives Lived Well runs a non-residential alcohol and other drug service from the Eastbrooke Health Hub at Kirwan in Townsville. It provides free counselling including for young people, psychoeducation groupwork, the Breakthrough for Families program for family members, police court diversion, and community drug and…
A free headspace centre for young people aged 12 to 25 at Thuringowa Central in Townsville, delivered by the charity Stride Mental Health, which became lead provider in August 2022.
A free, non-residential alcohol and other drug counselling service run by Lives Lived Well in Charters Towers. Counsellors visit one day a week, on Mondays, working from the Selectability building in Mary Street, and also provide outreach to Hughenden and Richmond.