Alcoholics Anonymous – Gay Safe Haven Friday

Ogilvie Centre, side entrance, St Aloysius Church, 25 Rose St.
Time: 19.30 – duration 1hr 15mins
Postcode: G3 6RE

Meetings are currently taking place on Zoom. Click here for more.

Glasgow LGBT Recovery Wednesday
Alcoholics Anonymous

Patricia’s Coffee Bar, 350 Victoria Road, Glasgow
Time: 19.30 – duration 1hr 30mins
Postcode: G42 7RP

LGBTQI Steps & Traditions
Alcoholics Anonymous

8.30pm-9.30pm
The Crypt, Holycross RC Church
Belleisle Street, Govanhill
G42 8ER

Rainbow Therapy Scotland

Rainbow Therapists are counsellors and psychotherapists who recognise that the diversity of human gender and sexualities is compatible with good mental health and social adjustment. We respect autonomy and are dedicated to social diversity, equality and inclusivity without discrimination of any kind.

Rainbow Therapists offer you a safe, confidential place to talk about your self and your life, so you can safely explore anything that may be confusing, painful or uncomfortable.

For more information visit rainbowtherapyscotland.org.uk

Gay and Sober Online Recovery Meetings

This website provides regularly updated information on online LGBTQI recovery group meetings including Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous etc.

https://www.gayandsober.org/meetings

Glasgow Council on Alcohol – Service/Information
14 North Claremont Street
Glasgow
G3 7LE
Tel: 0141 353 1800
Visit their LGBTQ+ specific webpage here.

Glasgow Council on Alcohol works to support people with alcohol problems as well as working across the city to reduce alcohol harm, including prevention work such as delivery of Alcohol Brief Interventions and schools work. GCA were a founding member of the LGBTQI Substance Use Partnership.

Alcohol Focus Scotland
2nd floor, 166 Buchanan Street, Glasgow, G1 2LW
0141 572 6700
enquiries@alcohol-focus-scotland.org.uk
Website

Alcohol Focus Scotland (AFS) is the national charity working to prevent and reduce alcohol harm. We want to see fewer people have their health damaged or lives cut short due to alcohol, fewer children and families suffering as a result of other people’s drinking, and communities free from alcohol-related crime and violence.

We Are With You

Glasgow East Recovery Hub, 24 Broad St, Bridgeton, Glasgow G40 2QL  0808 164 4261 8am – 8pm

Glasgow West Recovery Hub, Unit 2, The Quadrangle, 59, Ruchill St, Glasgow G14 0UL, 0141 221 3382 8am – 8pm 

WithYou offer free, confidential support with alcohol, and/or drugs at our Glasgow hub.  We also have a national confidential online chat facility where you can speak to one of our trained drug and alcohol specialists open to everyone.  We also have a specific online support for the LGBTQi+ community (including topics such as Chemsex or MSM drug use) on a Wednesday 11am – 7pm.As a leading provider of behaviour change services in Scotland we are never far away from those who need us.

Scottish Drugs Forum – Information
91 Michell Street
Glasgow
G1 3LN

Tel: 0141 225 0419
Website

SDF works to improve Scotland’s response to problem drug use. In doing this they work with people who use or have used services, service staff and managers, service planners and commissioners and people developing policy, including elected members of local and national government.

SDF is also able to provide information and advice around ‘chemsex’ and gay and bi-sexual men as well as information and advice on sexual health and blood borne viruses like HIV and viral hepatitis.

Alcohol and Drugs Information Services Directory

Website

This online directory has been developed to help people access contact information and details for over 200 agencies in Scotland who can help with drug treatment and care

Needle Exchange Directory

Website

The Needle Exchange Directory provides a list of all the services that provide injecting equipment in Scotland. These services may also offer advice and information on injecting practices, injecting-related infections and injuries, wound care, foil for smoking and information about other services that may be of use

Crew 2000

Crew 2000 are based in Edinburgh but provide online support and information and stay updated through their social media channels. Crew has been awarded a Bronze LGBT Charter mark and is committed to continually improving their ways of working. Crew welcomes people of all cultures, gender identities, sexual orientations, religious and ethnic backgrounds and people with disabilities.

Crew exists to reduce harm, challenge perceptions while helping people make positive choices about their sexual health and use of drugs by providing non-judgmental, credible, up to date information and support. Get in touch with Crew to chat about the drugs you take including cannabis, ketamine, MDMA, psychedelics, and stimulants like cocaine or amphetamine.  

Digital Drop-in

Email us at dropin@crew2000.org.uk, message us on Instagram @crew_2000 or text our confidential and FREE text service on 07860047501 for up-to-date information, advice and one to one phone support on drugs and sexual health. You can chat to someone in confidence about any concerns around your drug use, someone else’s use, or speak to us about accessing our drug counselling or other services.  We’re open 1-5PM Monday – Wednesday, Friday – Saturday and 3-7PM on Thursdays (closed on Sundays).

We are currently operating a door-step, contactless kiosk collection service for safer sex items – as of 04/02/21 this is operating 1-5pm on Mondays and Friday and 3-7pm on Thursdays. For updated service information click here.

Check out your use of drugs to assess risk: https://www.crew.scot/drugs-information/check-it-out/

Scottish Families Affected by Alcohol and Drugs (SFAD)

If you would like to connect or talk to someone about your situation please contact our helpline on: 08080 10 10 11.
For general enquiries contact: 0141 465 7523

Scottish Families Affected by Alcohol and Drugs is a national charity that supports anyone concerned about someone else’s alcohol or drug use in Scotland. We give information and advice to many people and help them with confidence, communication, general wellbeing, and we link them into local support. We also help people recognise and understand the importance of looking after themselves.
When we say family, we mean who you see as your family. It could be close and extended family members, friends, your friend’s family, colleagues, neighbours, anyone.

We support people through our helpline, bereavement support service, Telehealth (one-to-one support), and our family support services in Aberdeenshire, East Dunbartonshire, and Forth Valley. We also deliver workforce development through our training courses, communications and campaigning work, our young person’s project ‘Routes’ in East and West Dunbartonshire, and wider community development including our Connecting Families programme.

It’s important to us that LGBTQ+ people feel welcomed, safe and included in our services as much as anyone else.

Outside the Box

Email Ciara (ciara@otbds.org).

Outside the Box run monthly peer support sessions for LGBTQ families in Glasgow, titled Queer Families. They meet monthly for an informal group session with arts and crafts, activities, and visits from local LGBTQ artists. They’ve also produced a handy brochure with support and advice for Queer Families – and another for services working with Queer Families.

Sandyford Clinics
You can call Sandyford about counselling on 0141 211 6700

The Sandyford Sexual Health clinics offer counselling services as well as sexual health screenings. You can find out more about the Sandyford Counselling Services at: sandyford.org

If you are a gay or bi-sexual man and want to talk to someone about your sexual health, arrange for a screening or discuss counselling, the Steve Retson Project offers a specific service for gay and bi-sexual men. Find out more about the Steve Retson Project at www.steveretsonproject.org.uk
You can call the Steve Retson Project on 0141 211 8130

SX Scotland

0131 652 3250 E-Mail info@s-x.scot

SX Waverley Care Milestone 113 Oxgangs Road North Edinburgh EH14 1EB

Website

SX is about improving the sex, health and wellbeing of gay and bisexual men, and all men who have sex with men living in Scotland

ROAM Outreach

Chalmers Sexual Health Centre 2a Chalmers Street Edinburgh EH3 9ES

Phone: 0131 536 1773 Mobile: 07774 628227 enquiries@roam-outreach.com

Website

Free confidential sexual health testing service to help improve overall health and well-being for gay, bisexual, trans and all men who have sex with men We aim to provide a supportive service that is welcoming, free from judgement and discrimination, offering various sexual health testing options including face to face appointments, outreach sessions, home sampling kits, PrEP assessments, vaccinations, 1:1 support and advice.

Scottish Drugs Forum
91 Michell Street
Glasgow
G1 3LN
Tel: 0141 225 0419 Website

SDF works to improve Scotland’s response to problem drug use. In doing this they work with people who use or have used services, service staff and managers, service planners and commissioners and people developing policy, including elected members of local and national government.

SDF is also able to provide information and advice around ‘chemsex’ and gay and bi-sexual men as well as information and advice on sexual health and blood borne viruses like HIV and viral hepatitis.

Terrence Higgins Trust
Tel: 0141 332 3838 Website

Information about HIV, other sexually transmitted infections and how to maintain good sexual health.

As well as providing information and advice, THT also run rolling online group sessions for gay and bisexual men in the UK and who take part in chemsex and would like to make a positive change to their use of chems.

This means we won’t ask you to stop your chems use completely if this is not your goal. You may want to explore how to use more safely, and how to protect yourself and others. In order for the group to be effective, and for you to get the most from it, we do ask that you set yourself a realistic goal personal to you, which the group will support you to achieve.

Find out more about these sessions, including when the next round begins, here.

HIV Self Test Scotland

https://www.hivtest.scot/

HIV Self Test Scotland is a new national self-testing service, giving you a free, quick and easy way of getting a HIV test at home. If you order a HIV test, you’ll get it through the post. Your test is confidential and will be posted in discreet packaging. You will also get dedicated support with your test, regardless of the result.