Residential Services

As a national charity treating over 13,000 people a year for substance misuse, we are a leading provider of rehabilitation services. Phoenix Futures runs residential rehabilitation services across the UK, including adult services in Sheffield, Wirral, Tyneside, Glasgow and Hampshire; a women only service at Portland House (Newark); and two family services based at Sheffield and Brighton.

Why Residential Drug and Alcohol Treatment?

"In-patient detoxification followed by residential rehabilitation is the most effective way for drug users to become drug free, if they are motivated to become drug free and this is the agreed objective."
D. Best et al, National Needs Assessment, quoted in the T4 Commissioning Guide, DoH/NTA/HO

"The clients in the residential programmes presented with some of the most severe problems and complex needs and these clients made some of the greatest treatment gains"
National Treatment Outcomes Research Study

The National Treatment Outcomes Research Study conducted by the National Addiction Centre reports that:

• Clients treated in residential settings achieve greater improvement in drinking behaviour than those in community programmes
• Clients in residential programmes are often the most disturbed and that these clients often made the greatest treatment gains
• Residential treatment produces quicker results: 90 day residential treatment is recognised as the threshold for effective treatment, as opposed to one year for methadone maintenance

Why Phoenix Futures?

From an inhouse survey of service users admitted to our adult residential services in 2006-2007:

• 96% of service users felt attending the service helped them tackle their substance misuse and related problems
• 93% would recommend the service to others
• 90% were either very confident or fairly confident that they will sustain their treatment goals in terms of substance misuse after leaving our services
• 90% of service users in Scotland who completed residential rehab and took part in our Skills and Education Programme are now in further education, training or work