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
Western Health Drug Health Services is the public alcohol and other drug service for Melbourne's western suburbs, based at Footscray Hospital and free to clients. It provides counselling, withdrawal and detoxification support, opioid treatment, outreach and harm reduction across community, hospital, inpatient and outreach settings, with adult, women's and youth streams, a mental health and AOD hub at Sunshine Hospital, and Westside Lodge residential rehabilitation at St Albans.
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
Ask about staff qualifications, medication policy, accessibility and any specific support needs before you decide. Almost no service in this directory publishes what it will and will not admit.
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.
Refer into Western Health Drug? Register and endorse themREVIEWS
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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.
A non-residential alcohol and other drug service run by The Salvation Army at 34 Devonshire Road, Sunshine, with a second site at Coburg North and partner sites operated by VincentCare at North Melbourne and Glenroy.
Youth Support + Advocacy Service is a Victorian youth alcohol and drug charity established in 1998. Its Sunshine site in Melbourne's west runs four non-residential programs: the Youth Empowerment Project for young people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds with drug and alcohol problems, the Mobile…
headspace Sunshine is a non-residential youth health centre for people aged 12 to 25 in Melbourne's west, operated by Orygen from the Visy Cares Hub on Harvester Road.
A VincentCare Victoria site in North Melbourne combining crisis, extended and independent-living accommodation for adults experiencing homelessness with a walk-in Homelessness Resource Centre. On-site supports include a GP clinic, dentistry, nursing, podiatry, optometry, legal information and Centrelink services.