Trying to find a high-quality rehab centre can be quite an ordeal. With growing demand, there are more and more rehab centres opened nearly every week and still, a vacancy can be quite difficult to find. Below you’ll find the 10 best addiction rehabs in the UK with links to their websites.
1) Brook Drive
If you read our post about the 8 best addiction rehabs in London, you’re familiar with Brook Drive already. They are located at 124 Brook Drive and are a residential drug and alcohol detoxification centre with 26 beds available. The facilities are open 24 hours a day. Their detoxification programmes are overseen by nurses and are suitable for all adults.
Brook Drive has an experienced staff of 20 that has vast experience with drug and alcohol rehabilitation.
To find a vacancy, please visit this website.
2) Rehab 4 Addiction
Rehab 4 Addiction opened its doors in 2012. This organisation offers addiction treatment in London and across the UK.
Rehab 4 Addiction’s premier rehab centre is located in Middlesex Street and is hard at work since 2012. They have 22 beds available and offer round-the-clock care for clients.
Their alcohol and/or opiate detox is the first step in kicking alcohol and opiate dependencies and includes a 3-4 night medically managed “kick start” detoxification, a 7 night medically and psychologically managed detoxification and all the way up to 28 nights for complex polysubstance detoxification.
Their bespoke programme is tailored to the client’s needs and builds on your strengths and on your support network.
You can learn more about their alcohol rehab clinic in London here.
3) T.H.O.M.A.S Men’s Blackburn
T*H*O*M*A*S’ therapeutic programme has a wide-ranging approach to rehabilitation. Their method of therapy and human development is based on:
- Logic,
- Accepted Psychological Theories,
- Lived Experience and Community Living,
- Creative Art Therapy,
- Learning, and
- Development
Stage 1 of the programme is 6 months long, and after that, one can opt-in for 6 more months in their Supported Housing Scheme. The housing scheme has 12 fully furnished flats.
They publish an inspiring magazine called Edges Magazine that is full of stories about their activities, staff members, counsellors, and past and present client testimonies.
T*H*O*M*A*S is located at St Anne’s House on France Street. You can contact them here.
4) The Spitalfields Crypt Trust Acorn House
Acorn House is specialised in treating homeless men older than 21 that can attend daily groups and weekly one on one sessions. They are basing their programme on the proven 12-step model with two supported housing phases. After the first stage, the second stage is to move into a house in East or North London.
Their continued development and training is a staple in having a healthy and balanced life without addictions. We ll know how easy it is to relapse into drugs, alcohol, and subsequently – homelessness.
The Spitalfields Crypt Trust is serving the local community for more than 50 years.
Visit the website for vacancy.
5) Sefton Park Rehab
Sefton Park Rehab from Somerset boasts an “Outstanding” rating from Care Quality Commission. They offer an alternative to the 12-Step Model that is highly personalized and focused on building confidence, risk-taking, team building, problem-solving, and supporting others.
This is a mixed-sex facility that has a separate floor for women together with separate sleeping and bathing facilities. Sefton Park gives clients a chance to understand the underlying triggers and traumas for their addiction, and to realise what impact their addiction has on themselves and others.
Sefton Park is located on the seafront of the seaside town of Weston Super Mare. Visit their website for more info.
6) Western Counselling
Another Somerset rehab facility, Western Counselling focuses on a strict 12-Step treatment programme that is based on group therapy, educational workshops, special gender groups, and one on one counselling sessions.
One of their best features is the Life and Social Skills Workshops that are designed to give their clients the opportunity to learn and improve skills in areas such as parenting, health awareness, quitting smoking, dance therapy, reiki, yoga, parenting, mindfulness, volunteering, etc.
For those clients accessing Second Stage treatment, help with housing, educational and training needs are available.
7) Salvation Army Swindon
The Salvation Army is a worldwide evangelical Christian church and their Swindon branch has been offering residential rehab for more than 53 years. Both single and dual diagnosis clients are welcome. Their programme incorporates elements of CBT, MI and other evidence-based practices in two stages. Clients are expected to attend meetings at both stages of the programme with provided transportation.
When finished with rehab, clients can attend an aftercare programme that consists of group activities twice a week.
8) Brynawel Rehab
Located in Lankaran, Wales, Brynawel Rehab is the leading residential centre for the treatment of alcohol and drug addictions. They are a secular organisation that delivers residential evidence-based interventions. Their family therapy programme provides a range of services to help families cope with alcohol and drug-related problems.
Former clients are more than welcome to come back to Brynawel House and take part in relapse prevention and one on one counselling.
See more information about them on their website.
9) Freedom Recovery Centre
London’s Freedom Recovery Centre is located at 14 Pattenden Road and is offering a range of specialist counselling services such as couple counselling, family and relationship therapy, and a range of topic groups. They encourage the 12-step method to end substance dependencies.
The aim of the Freedom Recovery Centre is to support people in achieving abstinence, and a move towards a more positive lifestyle. The programme is 6-24 weeks long initially.
10) Forward Trust The Bridges
The Bridges was established in 2004 and is run by the Forward Trust. It’s located at 128 Holderness Road, East Riding of Yorkshire. The Bridges also operates the 12-Step model of recovery.
They are successfully treating men with complex needs from all parts of the United Kingdom. The rehab has 18 registered beds in single rooms. If you want to learn more about the team and the facility visit the website here.
