Get Support

Call our National Helpline on 020 7324 2989

We’re available Monday to Friday, 11am to 1pm and 2pm to 4pm.

Leave a message outside of these hours and we’ll get back to you.

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What we can help with

Release provides a free confidential and non-judgemental national information and advice service in relation to drugs and drug laws.

See some examples below of questions we can answer

Possible effects of drugs
Harm reduction advice
Matters involving drug dependency
Types of treatment including maintenance, prescribing, and abstinence.

Travelling with prescribed controlled drugs
Drug testing in the workplace
Impact of (past) criminal convictions and cautions
Charges involving possession of drugs
Charges involving intention to supply drugs
Cannabis cultivation offences

Visit our Harm Reduction Hub

Based in Cambridge Heath, London, our community drop-in centre provides harm reduction advice, supplies, and signposting to further support.

We’re open Monday to Thursday, 2pm to 5pm and Sunday 4pm to 7 pm. We also have additional hours and a list of what we offer on our Harm Reduction Hub page.

Tea and coffee provision   
Naloxone 
Nitazenes test strips, xylazine test strips, and fentanyl test strips 
Safer sex supplies 
Needles, syringes, and other injection-related items 
Safer drug consumption items for other routes of administration 
Signposting to relevant services   
Legal referrals  
Basic legal one-off advice (with the same scope as our helpline or Ask Inbox)  
Basic public health literature available for takeaway (ex. hepatitis prevention and treatment information, basic information supporting people to register for a GP)   
Warming centre   
Community phone-charging space   
‘Know your rights’ literature  
Merchandise for sale including t-shirts and drug reagent test kits 
Local community space where individuals can get to meet others

Address

HUB: 395 Cambridge Heath Road, London E2 9RA

Email

ask@release.org.uk

Phone

020 7324 2989