Absurd! Insane!!Absurd! Insane!!

Are you successful?Are you successful?

The Frozen Pizza CurseThe Frozen Pizza Curse

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Whilst every care has been taken to ensure the accuracy of this work, no responsibility for loss or damage occasioned to any person acting or refraining from action as a result of any statement in it, can be ac-

cepted by the editor or by Wolverhampton Voluntary Sector Council Service User Involvement Team,

as publishers. We would also like to thank all those that have contributed to this edition of the magazine.

Welcome to issue 35 of substance magazine, and what has

been a very interesting and busy 2 months where drug

treatment is concerned, as you may all know by now drug

treatment services went out to tender and are now being

run by, Nacro, Aqurius and Birmingham and Solihull mental

health services. More information coming soon.

We have had some great news here at SUIT, as we have

received our Approved Provider Standards for mentoring

and befriending (see page 5). This is down to continued

hard work of staff and volunteers here at SUIT.

A big welcome back to Caz our administrator who has

been on maternity leave, i think its safe to say we all missed

you and are glad you are back with us.

Inside this issue you can find some very interesting and

heart warming real life stories that have been sent in by ser-

vice users , a big thank you to those who have contributed

it takes a lot to put your story out there for others to see, i

hope that people read them and are inspired by them.

If you have any work or ideas for future issues of the maga-

zine then please send them into us, to our freepost address.

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Local & International News Pg 4-5

SUIT Activities Pg 6

Success Indicator Pg 7

Drug use rooms Pg 8-9

My Story so far Pg 10-11

Benefits Changes Pg 12

Poem– Ode to myself Pg 13 P3 Furniture project Pg 14

A page for you Pg 15-16

Recipe– East West potatoes Pg 17

The Frozen Pizza Curse Pg 18-20

Volunteer with SUIT Pg 21

Absurd! Insane!! Pg 22-23

Local NA meetings Pg 24

Needle Exchange Pharmacies Pg 25

Local service Directory Pg 26-27

DON’T FORGET

Anyone can contribute an article, poem, story, question etc. Send your stuff FREE to:

SUIT, c/o WVSC, FREEPOST MID14051, Wolverhampton, WV2 4BR.

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Too Many Legal Highs!!

More legal highs are available in the EU, according to a report by a European

drugs agency.

The European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) found

73 new synthetic drugs last year, compared to just 49 in 2011. The agency says

there have been positive changes in the use of more established drugs, such as

fewer new users of heroin and declining use of cannabis and cocaine in some

countries. But European officials are worried about man-made drugs being of-

fered on the market.

What are legal highs?

Legal highs are substances which produce the same, or similar effects, to drugs

such as cocaine and ecstasy, but are not controlled under the Misuse of Drugs

Act. In many cases, they are designed to mimic class A drugs, but are structurally

different enough to avoid being classified as illegal substances, so it is legal to pos-

sess and use them.

Why are people worried about legal highs?

There has been little research into the short, medium and long-term effects of le-

gal highs on users. Some drugs marketed as legal highs have been found to con-

tain some ingredients that are illegal to possess. It is these reasons that have led

to officials like Cecilia Malmström, The European Commissioner for Home Affairs, to

voice concern about more new drugs being found.

She thinks that drug policies "need to adapt to changing drug markets".

What are risks?

You increase the risk to yourself if you combine alcohol with any legal or illegal

substance that causes a high, including the risk of death.

Because the ingredients are unknown, the NHS says you could have reduced inhi-

bitions, drowsiness, excited or paranoid states, coma, seizures and death.

Why are legal highs legal?

Although possession and use of legal highs is not controlled by the Misuse of Drugs

Act it is illegal under medicines' legislation to sell, supply or advertise the sub-

stances for "human consumption".

Sellers often refer to them as research chemicals, plant food, bath crystals or pond

cleaner to get around the laws. Last year the government classified legal high

black mamba in the same way as cannabis.

How do they get around Europe?

The EMCDDA found that the way the fake legal highs are brought in to the coun-

try has changed.

European police agency, Europol, has also suggested that they were now often

imported in bulk from China and India rather than being made in secret labs

around Europe.

International News

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Wolverhampton drug factory found

A cannabis factory was discovered after an electrical fault sparked a fire at a

Wolverhampton house.

West Midlands Police seized 30 cannabis plants from the property in Fisher Street in

the Merridale area of the city.

The operation came to light when fire crews were called to a blaze on the second

floor of the mid-terraced house.

Members of West Midlands Fire Service contacted police who arrived at the

scene and claimed the contents.

It is believed the fire was started by an electrical fault in the house.

Firefighters were able to prevent the fire from spreading to any neighbouring

houses.

The house was unoccupied at the time and no arrests have been made. The

force’s disposal team manager Mike Hall said: “Cannabis farms need lots of heat

and light energy, plus regular watering, so growers often tamper with power sup-

plies, stealing electricity, and build their own irrigation systems.

“Dodgy electrics and water is a potentially lethal combination so our team is

highly trained to safely dismantle cannabis set-ups.

“We have been called to several fires started as a result of dealers tampering with

electricity supplies so growers cause a very real fire hazard to people and prop-

erty. And some cannabis factories have been known to be booby-trapped.”

Another String to Our Bow

We have recently achieved Approved

Provider Standards by Mentoring and

Befriending Foun-

dation, in working

with offenders,

another achieve-

ment that values

all of the hard

work, passion and

commitment of

the staff and vol-

unteers at SUIT.

Keep up the

good work.

SUIT Graduation Day

After the great success of our last

graduation day we ate looking for-

ward to the next one.

This will be held at Wolverhampton

Sxience Park on the 10th of June.

If you or anyone you know has or is

due to exit drug treatment it is impor-

tant that you let your keyworker know

you wish to be put forward to gradu-

ate and celebrate your success!

Look out in the next issue for pictures

of the day!

Local News

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Brighton considers drug-use rooms in bid to reduce deaths

Brighton could become the first city in the UK to provide rooms where peo-

ple would be able to use illegal drugs safely without the fear of prosecution.

Their use is one of the recommendations in an independent report commis-

sioned by Brighton and Hove City Council.

The aim would be to reduce drug-related deaths in a city described as

having had "a drug abuse problem for decades".

But critics said the move could amount to colluding with poor lifestyle

choices, or even illegal behaviour.

Sussex Police welcomed the report but emphasised the importance of a

"holistic approach" to illegal drugs.

The research by the Independent Drugs Commission for Brighton and Hove

proposes providing consumption rooms - often referred to as shooting gal-

leries - where people could use their own illegal drugs under the supervision

of professional healthcare workers.

They would provide medical care if required.

'Illegal behaviour'

The intention is to reduce the risk of overdoses and other drug-related

deaths, as well as decreasing the amount of drug-taking on the streets of

Brighton.

It also suggests making Naloxone, a prescription drug which can prevent

fatal overdoses, directly available to users.

Services for young drug takers should also be separated, according to the

report, to prevent them mixing with older, more established users.

Mike Trace, vice-chairman of the commission, told BBC Radio 4's Today:

"We have said to the authorities in Brighton that you need to look at this be-

cause it's something that could reduce drug-related deaths - which is an

issue in the city - but also because it could take a lot of public drug use and

drug markets off the street."

He said there were various models that could be adopted - for example

drugs provided by medical professionals, or users buying illegal drugs and

using them in the rooms.

However, there was a "grey area" over whether a law change would be

required for this sort of service, he said.

Councillor Rob Jarrett, chairman of the council's adult care and health

committee, said the area had had a problem with drug abuse "for dec-

ades" and the council would take the recommendations "very seriously".

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But Chip Somers, chief executive of Focus 12, an abstinence-based reha-

bilitation centre, told the Today Programme: "We've got the balance be-

tween providing addicts with care and harm reduction techniques com-

pletely out of proportion and we're now colluding with really quite poor life-

style choice and in this case illegal behaviour."

The potential cost of any such project has not been revealed - but Mr So-

mers said it would be "very expensive" and "for that sort of money you

could put 40 or 50 people through a complete rehabilitation project".

Nic Newman, a recovering addict, warned there could be a risk that ad-

dicts would be encouraged to use drugs more than they would have other-

wise.

"Some people might take more risks if [they are] in a clinic with a managed

room. With nurses on hand I can push the boundaries a bit more, can't I?"

he told BBC Breakfast.

Drug consumption rooms

They allow people to be in a safe environment when using drugs, with im-

mediate access to medical care if required Supporters say they function as a harm-reduction technique, reducing the

health risks associated with drug-taking and the nuisance factor of drug-

taking on the street There are currently consumption rooms in Germany, Luxembourg, the Neth-

erlands, Spain, Norway, Switzerland, Canada and Australia More than 60,000 people in Brighton and Hove, which has a population of

just over 270,000, have used drugs, according to the commission. They in-

clude more than 2,000 problem heroin and cocaine users.

For several years Brighton had more drug-related deaths than any other

city in the UK - in 2000, 67 residents died from drug misuse.

In 2011, Brighton saw 22 drug-related deaths - nine per 100,000 people over

the age of 16 - making it eighth in the table of UK drug-related deaths.

Ch Supt Nev Kemp, divisional commander for Brighton and Hove, wel-

comed the report, adding the recommendations would be discussed.

Decriminalised consumption rooms are in use in Germany, Luxembourg, the

Netherlands, Spain, Norway, Switzerland, Canada and Australia.

In the UK, King's College London is carrying out a study on administering

diamorphine (medical-grade heroin) to addicts to reduce heroin use.

In Vancouver, a facility named Insite allows users to take their own drugs in

a supervised environment. It has operated since 2003 under a constitutional

exemption from Canadian drug laws.

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My tory So Far

I started smoking drugs (weed) at the age of 11. Being brought up in children’s

homes you tend to grow up quickly. Most of the kids growing up around me

where older than myself and all of them smoked weed, so naturally I had to

follow fashion.

I turned to harder drugs crack first of all at the age of 15. I’d heard about crack

and smelt it as my dad and his fiancé where smoking it then. One night when I

jumped into my friend’s car I saw he had a spliff sitting there so naturally I

picked it up and smoked it. I thought it was going to be weed until I started

smoking it and smelt it then I knew it was crack, I decided to carry on anyway to

see what the big fascination was (Why my dad was smoking it).Me and my friend

chilled at the pub for a while then two of my girl friends from the children’s

home I was then living in turned up and the four of us was hanging out blazing

weed and crack. My two friends from the kid’s home got picked up by the vice

later that night and the driver came back with one guy who lived opposite me. He

ended up raping me at gun point and I later found out he got me pregnant. As I

was on a full care order Social Services said they where going to take my child

off me if I didn’t have an abortion, so in the end I had the abortion. That pushed

me over the edge and I started smoking crack like it was going out of fashion.

I decided to turn my life around after about 3yrs I’d met a nice guy and was set-

tling down. Then just as I thought I was over what had happened I had the police

come round questioning me about kids being sexually abused in the children’s

home I was brought up in, in the 1980’s. I told them no, I didn’t know anything

but they kept probing like I knew more than I was saying so I contacted my old

Social Worker. She came to see me and told me that I was one of the kids who

was abused. As you can imagine that a lot for anyone to take in. On top of that I

was told I can’t have kids because of the abuse I suffered as a three year old, not

to mention the abortion. And as if that wasn’t bad enough my partner had a one

night stand with his baby mother and she WAS pregnant. So surprise, surprise I

ended up turning back to the pipe, this is when I also started smoking heroin, my

cousin introduced me to that and before to long I got me hooked on that.

It has taken me twelve to thirteen years to decide to start seeking help to deal

with my past and start taking the steps I need stop smoking drugs. I’d been in and

out of treatment at Horizon House for about four/ five years. When I was serious

about stopping I’d end up being thrown off my script for missing appointment’s

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that were never sent out to me. Then I finally got a decent key worker and I’ve

been successful ever since. I’ve been clean now for about the last eighteen

months and I feel great. I had so much help from my key worker she referred me

to see a counsellor to help me talk about the abuse I suffered which ended up

being a GOD send. The counsellor showed me how to deal with my issue’s think

positively and most of all to believe in myself, and not to blame myself for what

happened to me. One thing she told me that has stuck in my head since is that for

as long as I’m sitting about feeling sorry for myself they’ve won, and I shouldn’t

want them to still have a grip on my life. Since that my confidence has improved

a lot I’ve still got some way to go, but as with everything in life you must start

from somewhere.

Since then I have started a few training courses (thanks to SUIT) in Maths,

English, IT and a Mentoring level I course. I’ve now passed the Mentoring level I

course and have also passed two IT courses. Computer Basics, and Computer

Essentials. Not to mention the fact that I’m now working voluntary so I can now

have the pleasure of helping out people and especially kids who have no-one to

turn to. Much like myself, at one time or another. All my friends and family are

so proud of me since I’ve stopped smoking, and even more so now since they can

see that I’m trying hard to achieve something that is constructive, meaningful.

They can’t believe that I’m the same person as I was a couple of years ago. I’m

more confident than ever. I’m successfully flying through my courses passing

them all at the first attempt and training up to be a voluntary support worker.

I’d just like to say BIG UP! And thanks to all of you who have helped me thus far

believe me when I say I’m truly grateful. Thanks a lot and GOD BLESS!!.

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Ode to myself

When you’re sitting in your comfy chair

Remember me

In this pit of despair

When running at night in the rain

Locked in, starring, wide eyed pain

Sleeping in an expensive bed?

Remember me

And the things your padmate said

Goin to the shop for food?

Remember me

Trying to shake the darkest moods

Jumping in that patch of mud?

Remember me

Collecting water, avoiding blood

Pocket full of shiny dimes?

Remember me

As I beg for 5 minutes of uncaring time

In a lovely happy place?

Remember me

Searching for one friendly face

When you’re putting up a shelf

Remember me

Appalling food, failing health

Smoking, snorting, popping glee?

For fucks sake Wilson, Remember me!

John-Paul Wilson

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A Page For You!

This page has been left blank so you can send

us your stories, poems or anything else you

would like to see in the magazine, simply tear

the page out and send it to our freepost

address printed on the opposite side of the

page. (If you don’t want your name with it, you don't have to)

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East West Potatoes

Ingredients

3 tbsp oil 750g (1½lb) thickly sliced, cooked potatoes, unpeeled 2 cloves garlic, peeled and crushed 2 tsp toasted cumin seeds 2 tsp garam masala About 250g (8oz) fresh spinach leaves (big leaves rather

than baby) 4 med or large eggs Salt and freshly ground black pepper

Small tub of Greek yogurt, to serve, optional

Method

1. Heat 2 tbsp of the oil in a large frying pan. Add the potatoes

and cook for about 8 mins until browned all over. 2. Add the rest of the oil and the garlic and cook for a couple of

mins, then stir in 1 tsp of the cumin seeds and all the garam ma-

sala. 3. Add the spinach and let it wilt for a min or two.

4. Meanwhile, poach the eggs in another pan. Divide the po-

tato mixture between 4 hot plates, then top each with a

poached egg. Season with salt and pepper, then sprinkle with

the rest of the cumin seeds. Drizzle with more oil and serve with

Greek yogurt, if you like.

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The frozen pizza curse

Every street or estate has a feral cat, well on my estate I was that cat. Ex-

cept I wasn’t a cat, I was an 11 year old kid. My mother had been gone

for around 2 years now, I was hurt then, but she’d had enough of his crap.

I can see this now and its one of the best things she’s ever done. My sister

had tried her best, but she was only a kid too. Soon she was packed off to

a children’s home, leaving me to fend for myself. Some family friends of

my moms and my mate’s mothers helped where they could, but mainly it

was me on my own. My big bro was there but he was fighting for his own

survival in his own ways.

Food had become something other people had and I got at school. One

day a friend had got his mom to let him stop at mine. He asked for a

pizza, but she gave us a frozen one. As our cooker had become obsolete,

my bro found it a good place to hide his stash. We found it, money, can-

nabis, and 2 bottles of poppers. That was it the pizza forgotten about, my

life of drugs began. I didn’t feel like me when I was smoking the resin and

sniffing the poppers. I forgot about the holes in my shoes and knees and

all the crap in my life.

The one thing my old man was good for, I found out was cash. So soon I

became a pot head and was introduced to weed and skunk as well as a

new older group of mates. Some days while my class mates were having

coco pops and jam on toast for breakfast id have a spliff and a cheap

can of cider.

Drink now had also become a familiar companion of my younger life. This

didn’t go un-noticed for too long and I was re-united with my sister thanks

to social services and the local kid’s home. I was 13 years old. I settled

down but the wed and drink was still a big part of my life. I got lucky and

moved in with some foster parents who gave me the holiday of a life time

in Jamaica. This turned me into a lover of reggae music and rum, but also

an international smuggler, something I’m proud of. What I’m not so proud

of is not long after that trip I robbed those people who had loved and

cared for me. Just as I’d rob many other people who had loved, cared

and helped me over the years as my drug abuse developed and got

progressively worse along with the alcohol use.

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I got my first taste of prison aged 17, I did 9 months of an 18 month sen-

tence. It was the longest I’d been clean in my teenage life. I didn’t see

another Christmas in the community until I was 22, out of those 6 years I

spent less than 18 months on road, that’s around 3 months a year. I

spent that time high on weed, drink, ecstasy, speed and music. I’m a

jungalist and music is the best and only natural high I’ve known, but

back then I didn’t realise.

I met my ex girl and we had a party lifestyle for a few years, I was more

into coke at the time and things were ok until we got a phone call with

the news that my girls mom was dead, but not just that, it was suicide!

We both took it bad, I did what I could to support her. I couldn’t do

enough though and she started to use crack and heroin. She hid the

smack, but knowing I was an uppers guy she introduced me to the

crack. I loved her and wanted to be there for her so I accepted it and

tried it. Big mistake because boy it was nice and I became a crack

head, my life rapidly fell apart. I’d been up for days out of my head, go-

ing spare. I beat my then girlfriend up as I blamed her for the person I

had become. This landed me back in prison with a well deserved 4 year

sentence. I smoked smack for the first time during that period. I came

out and didn’t touch it again. I had the best 2 years of my life, my son

was born, and I had a job and a nice flat. Things were going well, I was

back to smoking weed and drinking for the first time in moderation

. My sons, sisters dad turned out to be a nonce (not of normal criminal

element, I believe it means). Well he was coming out of prison and told

his probation officer that he intended to restart his relationship with my

son’s mother, so we got social services and the police at our door, tell-

ing us she had to relocate or go into a refuge otherwise we would lose

the kids.

She went with the kids and I was left alone not knowing where they had

gone or how long it would be before I saw them again. I found it hard to

cope and turned back to the habit that I had picked up on my last HMP

tour, as well as the crack. Once again she was finding it hard to cope

and when I was back in prison things went from bad to worse, I was in-

formed that the kids had been taken off her and my son was living with

my sister, but there was a possibility he may have been adopted. I lost

all hope and couldn’t face feeling normal as I had to think of the situa-

tion my son was in, it was almost as if I was mourning him. I felt as if I had

lost the one thing in my life I had to live for. I still don’t know how to feel

and I find it hard at times, but I’ve stopped using the class A’s after hav-

ing a hard Christmas.

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Things got quite bad for me. I was a mess, looked a mess and felt even

worse. Then I collapsed and spent 2 or 3 days in bed. When I woke up I

knew things had to change, but I also felt able to start making these

changes and now I have. I’m drug free at present and was before I came

back to prison, I feel the best I have in a long time and more confident

that I ever have been in dealing with my drug use once and for all. I’ve

got some good supportive people in my life now who’ll help me through

it, I’ve got my motivation back too, as I’ve had some good news about

my sons future.

I’m not sure what my future holds but I know if I fix up, stay drug free, posi-

tive and progress anything is possible, even me getting custody of my son

in a few years time. There’s a lot of hard work but the rewards are more

than worth it.

Elby.

“ I t ’ s not like that ”

You sit in your room at night, in front of the candle light

And no ones around but you and all you do

You sit in your room at night with the beer sitting by your side

And no ones around for you and all you do

But its not like that, It don't have to be like that

It don't have to be the way things are right now

Just gotta find a way out

By Daniel R

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The SUIT team is heavily reliant upon the fantastic work of our wonderful volunteers. Volunteering with SUIT has many rewards - meeting new people, furthering

you career within the field of substance misuse, helping others, learning new skills, influencing key ‘strategic’ partners etc. etc.

All four staff members at SUIT volunteered with the project first, so we are all advo-cates of the importance of volunteering.

In order to be considered to join the team, you must meet the

following criteria -:

▪ Live in Wolverhampton

▪ Current, or ex user of Wolverhampton Drug or Alcohol Services

▪ A desire to help others to find and maintain recovery

▪ Have spare time

▪ The willingness to better yourself through education and training

▪ Commitment to our cause

▪ Not using illicit substances or alcohol respectively

If you answered ‘Yes’ to the questions above then

we would definitely like to hear from you !!

For more information on becoming a recovery support volunteer with us either call 01902 328983 or apply directly online at www.suiteam.com

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Absurd! Insane!!

'Absurd' laws dealing with magic mushrooms, ecstasy and can-

nabis are hindering medical research, according to a former

government drugs adviser.

Prof David Nutt says he has funding to research the use of the

chemical psilocybin - found in fungi known as "magic mushrooms"

to treat depression.

But he says "insane" regulations mean he cannot get hold of the

drug.

The Home Office said there was "no evidence" that regulations

were a barrier to research.

It is not the first time Prof Nutt has been at odds with government

policy.

He was sacked as an adviser over views that ecstasy and LSD

were less harmful than alcohol.

Psilocybin is illegal in the UK and is a Class A drug.

Earlier research at Imperial College London showed that injec-

tions of psilocybin could calm a region of the brain which is over-

active in depression.

The group is now trying to conduct a clinical trial to test psilocybin

as a treatment.

Stumbling block

The UK's Medical Research Council has given the lab a £550,000

grant to test the idea - in 30 patients who have not responded to

at least two other therapies. They have also been given ethical

approval.

However, there are more stringent regulations for testing the drug

as a treatment than in earlier experiments. As a potential medi-

cine it must meet Good Manufacturing Practice requirements set

out by the EU.

"It hasn't started yet because the big problem is getting hold of

the drug," said Prof Nutt. He said finding a company to provide a

clinical-grade psilocybin had "yet proved impossible" as none

was prepared to "go through the regulatory hoops".

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"So we are between a rock and a hard place, which is very unfor-

tunate, because if this is an effective treatment for patients then

they're obviously being denied that possibility so one of the things

we have to do now is have a more rational debate about the

way the drugs laws are being implemented."

He will tell the British Neuroscience Association that similar rules

are hampering research into other drugs such as ecstasy and

cannabis.

Ahead of the meeting he told the BBC: "We have regulations

which are 50 years old, have never been reviewed and they are

holding us back, they're stopping us doing the science and I think

it's a disgrace actually."

A Home Office spokesman said: "Our licensing regime enables

legitimate research to take place while ensuring that harmful

drugs don't get into the hands of criminals.

"We have no evidence to suggest that the current listing of psilo-

cybin as a schedule one substance is a barrier to attracting fund-

ing for legitimate research."

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Wolverhampton:

Friday 7:30pm– Darlington Street Methodist

Church, WV1 4LF.

Dudley:

Tuesday 8pm– Gibbs House, Gibbs Road (off

Bald Lane), Lye, DY9 8SG

Wednesday 6:30pm– The Warehouse, Atlantic

House, Thorns Road, DY9 8EL

Sunday 6:30pm– The Gallery, 1 Castle Street,

DY1 1LA.

Walsall:

Thursday 7:30pm– St Matthew centre,

St Matthew close, Churchill, WS1 3DG.

NA Helpline: 0300 999 1212 or

visit www.ukna.org

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A List of Pharmacies In Wolverhampton who Offer Needle Exchange

A Brickley Ltd, 88 Griffiths Drive, WV11 2JW

All Saints Pharmacy, 91-93 All Saints Road, WV2 1DR

Alpharm Ltd, 468 Stafford Road, WV10 6AP

Anderson Chemist, 311 Dudley Road, WV2 3JE

Boots Pharmacy, 40-41 Dudley Street, WV1 3ER

Boots Pharmacy, Bentley Bridge Park, Wednesfield, WV11 1BP

Boots Pharmacy, 100 Church Street, Bilston, WV14 0BJ

Brooklands Pharmacy, 48 Brooklands Parade, WV1 2NE

Brutons Pharmacy, 1 Mervyn Place, Bilston, WV14 8DD

Co-op Pharmacy, Avion Centre, 6 Bargate Drive, WV6 0QW

Co-op Pharmacy, 425 Dudley Road, WV2 3AH

Co-op Pharmacy, 8 Showell Circus, WV10 9BA

Co-op, Pendeford Health Centre, Whitburn Close, WV9 5NJ

Essington Pharmacy, 129 Long Knowle Lane, WV11 1JG

HN Pharmacy, 124 Cannock Road, WV10 8PW

Jhoots Pharmacy, 50 Newhampton Road West, WV6 0RY

Lloyds Pharmacy, 323/325 Penn Road, WV4 5QF

Lloyds Pharmacy, 34/35 Thornley Street, WV1 1JP

Lloyds Pharmacy, 18-20 The Broadway, WV10 8EB

Lloyds Pharmacy, 45 Church Street, WV14 0AX

Lloyds Pharmacy, Lower Street, WV6 9NS

Lloyds Pharmacy, 181 Wednesfield Road, WV10 0EN

Lloyds Pharmacy, 18 High Street, Wednesfield, WV11 1SZ

Meerapharm, 331 Bushbury Lane, WV10 9UJ

Murrays Healthcare, 128 Childs Avenue, Coseley, WV14 9XB

Phoenix Pharmacy, Phoenix Health Centre, Parkfield Road, WV4 6ED

Staveley Chemist, 212 Staveley Road, WV1 4RH

Supercare Pharmacy, 135 Dudley Road, WV2 3HD

Superdrug Pharmacy, 65/67 Mander Square, WV1 3NN

Tettenhall Wood Pharmacy, 12 School Road, WV6 8EN

A l l e q u i p m e n t i s p r o v i d e d f r e e o f c h a r g e

Look out for this sign on the shop front to

find out if they provide the service

LITTLE BROTHERS OF

THE GOOD

SHEPHERD

The Methodist Centre.

24 School Street,

Wolverhampton

Morning Service 10.30 – 11.30 a.m.

Monday & Thursday: Dry Food,

Gents Clothes, Male Showers

Friday: Gents Clothes, Male

Shower

Afternoon Service: 2 – 3.30 pm.

Daily: Service of Food Packages

If you need any advice or guidance on Homelessness

issues feel free to

contact Wolver-

hampton City

Council on the

details below -:

Homeless Services

Unit

Social Services

Wolverhampton City

Council

Civic Centre

St. Peter's Square

Wolverhampton

The Lords Soup

Kitchen Full Meals served

between

7 & 9pm - :

Sun and Wed.

For anyone in need.

All Welcome Temple St, W’ton

● Provide advice & guidance

● Activities like life skills, literacy

etc

● Signposting

● Benefits & Tenancy advice

● Base for Big Issue Plus much

more...

St. GeorgesSt. GeorgesSt. Georges Tel -:

(01902) 421904

St Marks Rd

Chapel Ash

W’ton

WV3 09H

Hub Opening Hrs

09:15 -17:00

Thornhurst,

1 Connaught Road,

Chapel Ash,

Wolverhampton,

WV1 4SJ

0300 2002400

L o c a l S e r v i c e s

Service User Involvement Team

S U I T Full Address:

c/o WVSC

16 Temple Street

Wolverhampton

WV2 4AN

Tel No -:

01902 328983

w w w . s u i t e a m . c o m

Helping to improve

drug treatment and lives

Subs – See young

people across the

city at various com-

munity venues.

Telephone Num-

ber:

(01902) 572041

Opening Hours:

Monday to Thursday - 9am - 6pm

Friday - 9am - 5pm

Offers; Group Work, Key Work, Harm

Reduction, Substitute Prescribing,

Acupuncture, Family Therapy, Gen-

eral Drug Information.

Dental Health Project Free dental treatment and

advice for service users!

Every second Monday @

Horizon House all day

Tuesday’s 1:30pm to 4:30pm @

Whitmore Reans health centre (behind

Avion centre)

Just drop in or call 01902 444460 for

more info.

L o c a l S e r v i c e s

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Want to get fit? Make new friends?

SUIT are hoping to start a cycling group

in the very near future, if you are

interested then:

Please contact

the SUIT office on

01902 328983

Do you own a bicycle??