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
A free, non-residential alcohol and other drug counselling service run by Canberra Health Services from the City Health Centre. It provides individual counselling, counselling for family members and carers, and therapeutic and relapse-prevention groups for adults. A parallel Youth Drug and Alcohol Program supports people aged 12 to 25. People refer themselves by phoning the Alcohol and Drug Service intake line, which arranges a phone assessment.
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
Endorsements come from registered professionals — psychologists, addiction GPs, lawyers, social workers — who have referred someone here and put their name to what happened. None yet does not mean poor ones: it means nobody has written one.
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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.
Alcohol and Other Drug Support Connections is an outreach case management program run by Marymead CatholicCare Canberra and Goulburn for people over sixteen who want to reduce or stop using alcohol and other drugs.
A community-based structured day program run by The Salvation Army at 1 Elder Street, Braddon, for people aged 18 and over affected by alcohol, other drug or gambling problems.
Winnunga Nimmityjah is an Aboriginal community controlled primary health care service in Narrabundah, ACT, established in 1988 and open to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people of all ages.
The Withdrawal Unit is a Canberra Health Services inpatient unit in Building 7 at Canberra Hospital providing medically supervised withdrawal from alcohol and other drugs, with an outpatient alcohol withdrawal program also available.