Southern Addictions Advisory Service (SAdAS)is an established charity providing services to people experiencing problems related to drugs, alcohol and mental health. Services include one-to-one counselling, outreach and support groups. The charity works with people who are trying to move on from their addiction, helping them to re-integrate into mainstream society and improve social and mental wellbeing.

By setting up and running support groups and networks in different community locations that focus on raising awareness of drug/alcohol issues, providing education and peer support should enable those people to tackle and address on-going issues locally and over time provide wider on-going support to other members in their community.

An increase in personal reponsibility, reduction/stability or abstinence of drug and or alcohol use resulting in postive change,improving mental/emotional and physical health, decrease in criminality, improvement in relationships, social networks/contacts, improvement in accomodation/living circumstances, improvement in daily lifestyle e.g. work, education, training, leisure time.