EDAS - Adults

What Services are Available for Adults?

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EDAS provides drug and alcohol counselling to people who are over 21 years in the Boroondara, Manningham, Maroondah, Monash and Whitehorse municipalities of the Eastern Metropolitan Region of Melbourne.

The EDAS adult service offers free and confidential counselling, education and support to people experiencing difficulties with alcohol or other drug use and the people who care for them, such as parents and partners.

EDAS counsellors are based in community health services in each municipality. See the About EDAS section for information on where our main centres are located.

EDAS operates from a philosophy of harm minimisation, where clients are encouraged to set their own goals that the client and counsellor both work on together.

EDAS offers support for people who:

• Want to cut down or quit alcohol or other drug use
• Have already cut down or quit and want to prevent lapses back into higher levels of use
• Have concerns about their alcohol or other drug use
• Want information on safer use and other harm minimisation strategies
• Want information on the effects and potential impact of alcohol or other drug use
• Have concerns about another person's alcohol or other drug use.

What other programs do we run?

Check out some of our other programs in the Projects section.

What if you aren't in our area?

If you live elsewhere, and are experiencing difficulties with cannabis, check out Getting out of it: How to cut down or quit cannabis.

How can you contact us?

If you are an adult with alcohol or other drug concerns in the municipalities listed above, call our duty worker on:

If you are an adult in the Eastern Metropolitan Region but do not live in the areas listed above, these services also offer drug and alcohol counselling for adults in the region:

Salvation Army Eastcare	City of Boroondara	(03) 9851 7800
Anglicare AGENDAS	City of Knox	(03) 9721 3688
Anglicare AGENDAS	Shire of Yarra Ranges	(03) 9721 3688