Action on Addiction
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| Founded | 2007 |
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| Type | National organization |
| Focus | Alcohol and substance abuse treatment and recovery, including family recovery |
| Headquarters | Wiltshire, United Kingdom |
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Area served
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England and Wales, United Kingdom |
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Key people
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Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge |
| Mission | To free people from alcohol and substance abuse addiction |
| Website | www.actiononaddiction.org.uk |
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Formerly called
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The Chemical Dependency Centre, Clouds, Action on Addiction |
Action on Addiction is a UK-based charity that works with people affected by drug and alcohol addiction. It works in the areas of research, prevention, treatment, aftercare, as well as professional education and family support.Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge has been patron since January 2012.
The charity was formed in 2007 by the merger of three charities: The Chemical Dependency Centre (established in 1985), Clouds (established in 1987) and the original Action on Addiction (established in 1989). The new charity assumed the name Action on Addiction.
The charity’s head office is in Wiltshire, with centers and programs operating in London, Wiltshire, Bournemouth, Essex and Liverpool. In Spring 2011, the charity introduced a family treatment program at a prison in Bridgend, South Wales.
Treatment centers include Clouds House and Hope House.Clouds House is a Grade II listed building located near the village of East Knoyle. The charity also has a recovery dry bar in Liverpool, called The Brink.
Action on Addiction provides abstinence-based Twelve-step programs in residential treatment, structured day treatment and relapse prevention programs at various venues around England for substance misusers as well as counseling and a brief residential program for families, partners and friends.
The M-PACT program (Moving Parents and Children Together, operated under the charity’s ‘For Families’ division) focuses specifically on the impact of drug addiction on families. It is an eight-week programme designed to help children aged 8–17 whose parents have drug and/or alcohol addictions. The program is based on the belief that healing the whole family, not just individual members, leads to the longest lasting and most successful outcomes. It is provided at various venues around England and Wales.
The charity works with researchers at the National Addiction Centre, part of the Institute of Psychiatry at King's College London. The charity played a part in establishing the National Addiction Centre and funds a chair in Addiction Psychiatry.
The charity (through its Centre for Addiction Treatment Studies ‘CATS’) is part of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Bath which offers accredited Foundation and BSc(Hons) Degrees, and continuing professional development in Addictions Counseling.
In January 2012, Catherine, The Duchess of Cambridge became Patron of Action on Addiction, one of the first four charities she chose to support in this way. In October 2012, The Duchess also gave her backing to the charity’s M-PACT program. The Duchess has visited the charity’s facilities on several occasions.
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