# West Lothian Drug &amp; Alcohol Service

## Details

- **Country:** Scotland
- **Charity number:** SC005776
- **Status:** Active
- **Legal form:** Company (the charity is registered with Companies House)
- **Registered:** Oct. 20, 2000
- **Register:** https://www.oscr.org.uk/about-charities/search-the-register/charity-details?number=SC005776


## Contact

- **Address:** Floor 1, The Almondbank Centre , Shiel Walk, Craigshill , Livingston
- **Postcode:** EH54 5EH
- **Website:** http://www.wldas.com/



## Activities

**Activities:** &#x27;It carries out activities or services itself&#x27;

**Purposes:** &#x27;the prevention or relief of poverty&#x27;,&#x27;the advancement of education&#x27;,&#x27;the advancement of health&#x27;,&#x27;the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage&#x27;

**What the charity does:** West Lothian Drug and Alcohol Service provides counselling/support and psychological therapies to young people and adults experiencing difficulties with substance use. It also provides harm reduction interventions including Take Home Naloxone and Needle Exchange and safer injecting advice, dry blood spot testing, bereavement counselling and Art Therapy. Individual sessions and groupwork programmes are available to all clients. There is also a volunteering programme with our Progressing Forward Steering Group.

**Beneficiaries:** &#x27;Children or young people&#x27;,&#x27;People with disabilities or health problems&#x27;,&#x27;Other defined groups&#x27;

**Objectives:** The prevention and relief of poverty. The advancement of education. The advancement of health.





## Geography

- **Main operating location:** West Lothian
- **Geographical spread:** Wider, but within one local authority area







