Alcohol treatment in London covers a wide range of interventions, including
counselling, detox, structured day care, low threshold open access/drop-in
services, outreach, rehabilitation, supp
orted housing and wet houses. Most
services work both with drinkers and affected others. However, because of the
fragmented nature of funding for alcohol treatment in recent years, no two
alcohol services look alike. There are gr
eat variations in organisation size and
infrastructure, interventions offered, target client group, and funding streams. It
is important to note that many services which developed solely to address the
needs of people with alcohol related
problems have taken on clients whose
primary care needs are drug related in
order to access funding streams that
would otherwise be closed to them.