VOCAL Edinburgh

Referrals from Scottish Families

Scottish Families are working in partnership with VOCAL and can refer you to their services for ongoing support around your concerns about your loved one’s substance use.

Contact our helpline and our advisors will make a referral for you:

• Freephone – 08080 101011
• Email – helpline@sfad.org.uk

Service Provision

The VOCAL Family Support Addictions service provides support and information to parents, friends, partners and other family members living in Edinburgh and Midlothian who are affected by someone else’s drinking and drug use.  Feelings of isolation often happen when faced with a loved one’s drink or drug problem. We can often keep the ‘problem’ to ourselves, and find ourselves cut off from friends and family. At Family Support Addictions we want to support you to reduce or alleviate such feelings.

We offer one-to-one support, where you can speak in confidence, perhaps for the first time outside the family. Our support groups give you the chance to meet others in a similar situation to you and who understand what you are going through in a supportive and confidential setting.

We work through SMART and CRAFT therapeutic interventions.

Adult Carers Support

Find out more about getting a carers’ assessment, your rights and entitlements as a carer, accessing equipment and adaptations for the home, hospital discharge and getting help around the home.

For full information on supports across Edinburgh download the Addiction Recovery Companion App – https://arcapp.co.uk/