Drug & Alcohol Rehab Options in Haringey

Free adult drug and alcohol treatment in Haringey

Haringey does not currently have one single adult treatment service. Drug treatment, alcohol treatment and recovery support are delivered through linked but distinct services.

The Grove — drug treatment

The Grove supports adults in Haringey who want to reduce or stop their drug use. It provides assessment and recovery planning, clinical treatment and prescribing, counselling, harm reduction and routes into detoxification and residential rehabilitation where assessment shows that a more intensive level of treatment is needed.

The service can also help with stimulant and non-opioid drug use, chemsex, physical and mental-health needs, blood-borne-virus testing and practical difficulties around housing, benefits and finances.

HAGA — alcohol treatment

HAGA Alcohol Service is Haringey’s current specialist alcohol-treatment service. It supports adults who want to change, reduce or stop drinking and can provide assessment, one-to-one work, recovery planning, counselling, alcohol detox and safe-reduction planning, liver-health support, mutual aid and access to community or residential detoxification where appropriate.

HAGA can also arrange appointments in satellite clinics, GP surgeries and community settings, which can matter if getting to Seven Sisters Road is difficult.

Haringey Recovery Service

Haringey Recovery Service supports adults who are working on longer-term change around alcohol or drug use. It provides one-to-one support, groups and counselling, alongside help with housing, employment, benefits, gambling and smoking where those difficulties are affecting recovery.

It is not simply another name for HAGA. The two services share a location and telephone number, but they have different roles: HAGA is the specialist alcohol-treatment route, while Haringey Recovery Service focuses on recovery and aftercare across alcohol and substance use.

All three services are free to Haringey residents and accept direct contact. You do not need to decide which label perfectly describes the problem before asking for help — if you contact the wrong part of the local system, the important thing is to explain what is happening so you can be directed appropriately.

Help for young people through Insight Platform

Insight Platform, delivered by Waythrough, provides free and confidential support for young people in Haringey who are using alcohol or drugs or are affected by somebody else’s substance use.

The current service information describes support for people under 26 — in practice, young people up to and including age 25. It also works with parents, carers and other family members and provides training to professionals working with young people in the borough.

Support includes information and advice, one-to-one key-work sessions and a whole-family approach focused on strengthening relationships, reducing conflict and improving wellbeing.

Abbington House is an adult residential service. For someone under 18, Insight Platform is the appropriate first route rather than Abbington’s admissions team.

Support for families and friends in Haringey

Families do not have to wait until the person drinking or using drugs agrees to treatment before asking for help themselves.

Insightful Families provides free and confidential support to Haringey families affected by alcohol use. It can offer one-to-one help for adults and children, parenting support, family activities, information about alcohol and groups for friends and carers.

BUBIC also supports carers and family members affected by drug or alcohol use. Because it was created by people with their own experience of substance use and recovery, it provides a different kind of local support from a statutory treatment service.

Naloxone, drug testing and needle exchange in Haringey

Someone does not have to be ready to stop using drugs before steps can be taken to reduce the immediate risk.

The Grove provides naloxone, blood-borne-virus testing and needle-exchange support. Haringey residents can also order free naloxone, drug-testing kits, needle and syringe supplies, condoms and other harm-reduction items for discreet home delivery through the local arrangement promoted by Waythrough.

Naloxone can temporarily reverse an opioid overdose. Where heroin or other opioids are involved, carrying it — and making sure people nearby know how to use it — can save a life.

View Haringey Council’s current drug-support and harm-reduction information

Support for people experiencing homelessness and peer-led recovery

Haringey has additional support for people whose drug or alcohol use sits alongside rough sleeping, temporary accommodation or other severe instability.

Mulberry Junction

The Grove runs evening prescribing and substance-misuse clinics at Mulberry Junction, 332 High Road, Tottenham, N15 4BN, alongside wider homelessness support. Current council information lists clinics on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Because published timetables can change, check the current session time before attending.

The wider rough-sleeping service brings together drug clinical support, alcohol treatment and lived-experience peer support rather than expecting somebody with multiple needs to navigate each service alone.

BUBIC

Bringing Unity Back Into the Community (BUBIC) is a Haringey peer-led drug and alcohol service founded by people with lived experience of drug use. It provides support groups, one-to-one advice, recovery support and help for carers and family members.

BUBIC also works within Haringey’s rough-sleeping response, including at Mulberry Junction.

View Haringey’s specialist homelessness services

When residential rehab may fit

Community treatment works well for many people. Residential rehab provides a different level and setting of support rather than an automatically better form of treatment.

It may be worth considering where:

• attempts to stop or reduce alcohol or drug use at home have not lasted
• withdrawal or prescribing needs require closer medical assessment
• several substances are involved
• the person struggles to remain stable between appointments
• the home or social environment is closely connected with continued use
• anxiety, depression, trauma or another mental-health difficulty is also part of the picture
• a period away from familiar places and routines would create more space to focus on treatment

Publicly funded residential treatment can also form part of the Haringey system. The Grove and HAGA both describe routes into detoxification or residential rehabilitation where assessment shows that this level of support is appropriate.

Our residential rehab page explains how treatment works at Abbington House, including assessment, detox where clinically appropriate, therapy, family support, daily structure and aftercare planning.

Our alcohol rehab guide explains the main alcohol-treatment routes available in the UK. Our drug rehab guide explains how treatment can differ by substance, including illicit drugs, prescription medication and mixed substance use.

Considering private residential treatment from Haringey

Abbington House provides CQC-regulated private residential treatment at its centre at 23 Hitchin Road in Stevenage for alcohol addiction, illicit and prescription drug addiction, and co-occurring mental-health difficulties.

Abbington House does not operate a clinic, consultation room or satellite treatment service in Haringey. Residential treatment takes place in Stevenage.

For somebody whose alcohol or drug use has become tied to the same streets, routines, relationships or immediate access around them, treatment outside the borough can create useful distance without taking family or London completely out of reach.

Treatment brings assessment, medically supervised detox where clinically appropriate, therapy, daily structure, family support and preparation for life after treatment into one residential stay. Suitability and length of stay are assessed individually.

Not every situation requires residential treatment, and not every person is suitable for admission to Abbington House. The first conversation and assessment are used to understand the complete situation rather than force it into a residential pathway.

Travelling from Haringey to Abbington House

Haringey has useful northbound rail connections because the Great Northern route through the borough continues towards Hertfordshire and Stevenage.

Alexandra Palace and Bowes Park

Direct trains are available from Alexandra Palace to Stevenage, with journeys commonly around the mid-thirty-minute mark and the fastest services taking under half an hour.

Bowes Park also has direct services. Current journey information gives an average of around 41 minutes, with the fastest direct trains taking about 38 minutes.

Hornsey and Harringay

Direct northbound options may also run from Hornsey and Harringay depending on the timetable and stopping pattern. From these parts of the borough, changing at Finsbury Park can sometimes produce a faster overall journey because Finsbury Park has very frequent direct services to Stevenage.

Via Finsbury Park

The fastest direct trains from Finsbury Park to Stevenage take around 19 minutes, although the average journey is closer to half an hour. The total journey from home includes getting to Finsbury Park first, so that fastest figure should not be treated as the journey time from Haringey as a whole.

By road

Driving times vary sharply across Haringey and with London traffic. Depending on the starting point, the route may head north towards the A10 or west towards the A1(M). A single borough-wide road time is therefore less useful than checking the journey from the actual address.

Train times, stopping patterns and road conditions change. Check the journey before travelling and ask the admissions team about arrival arrangements.

What the distance means for family involvement

Family involvement does not depend on travelling to Stevenage every week. Abbington House provides a structured weekly family group online, allowing partners, parents, siblings and adult children in Haringey to take part from home.

In-person contact may also form part of treatment where appropriate and agreed with the treatment team. Haringey’s direct rail links and the frequent connection through Finsbury Park can make same-day travel practical for some families, but arrangements are planned around the resident’s needs rather than treated as ordinary visiting hours.

Read about family support at Abbington House.

Talking through the next step

You do not need to work out whether The Grove, HAGA, recovery support or residential treatment is the right answer before speaking to somebody.

You can explain what has been happening, what has already been tried, whether withdrawal or prescribed medication may be involved, whether mental-health difficulties are also part of the picture and what support is available at home.

The purpose of the first conversation with Abbington House is to decide whether the centre may be an appropriate option. Where The Grove, HAGA, Haringey Recovery Service, Insight Platform, a GP, hospital care or another specialist route appears more suitable, the team will say so and, where possible, explain where else to seek help.

Call 01438 583222

You can also request a confidential callback if you would prefer us to call you.

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If community treatment sounds like the better starting point, contact The Grove on 020 8702 6220 for drug support or HAGA on 020 8801 3999 for alcohol support.

Return to the London drug and alcohol support guide.