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Support for harmful use and addiction

Here you find help if you or someone close to you has problems with alcohol, drugs, medicines, or gambling for money.

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Please note that all forms, digital applications (e-services) and some linked websites are currently in Swedish. Contact Citizen Service if you need help in English.

Here you can get help

Applications for adults

You can receive advice, support, and treatment through the Intake Team. Call telephone +46 921 629 99 for advice or to apply for help. You can also apply in our digital service. Applications sent in the evening or on weekends are received the next working day.

Reporting concerns about an adult

If you suspect that an adult is being harmed because of misuse or addiction, contact the Intake Team on telephone +46 921 629 99. In acute danger, call 112.

Important to know:

  • Provide all the information you have so we get a clear picture. If you later receive new important information, make a new report.
  • If you do not have a legal duty to report, you may report anonymously. Do not state your name when you contact us. You cannot request anonymity afterwards.
  • When the report has been received, we assess whether immediate support or protection is needed.
  • During the first review, called the initial assessment, we may only contact the person the report concerns and the person who reported.
  • As a private individual you will not receive feedback. Information during the initial assessment or an investigation is confidential, which means we are not allowed to share information without the adult person’s consent.
  • The Social Services Act is based on voluntariness. Support is offered, but the person may decline. In serious cases, compulsory measures may be used.
  • Reports sent in the digital service during evenings or weekends are received the next working day.

Lifestyle Clinic

The Lifestyle Clinic offers a short series of counselling sessions if you are worried about your use of alcohol, drugs, medicines, or gambling for money. The sessions identify risk factors and protective factors. You receive advice on lifestyle changes and information about what addiction is and how it affects you and your family members. Family members can also receive support.

Target group

People from eighteen years of age and older who are at risk of developing an addiction.

Contact

MAILTeamstoed@boden.se

Self-help groups in Boden

Self-help groups are available in Boden for those who want to recover from addiction.

  • Monday 19.00–20.00, Mariakyrkan, Trånga gatan 29, Sävast
  • Thursday 19.00–20.00, Johanneskyrkan, Drottninggatan 37, one floor down, entrance at the back
  • Sunday 18.00–19.00, Johanneskyrkan, Drottninggatan 37, one floor down, entrance at the back

Learn more at ca.se and na.se

The group welcomes people with addiction to all mind-altering substances.

  • Tuesday 18.30–19.30, Johanneskyrkan, Drottninggatan 37, one floor down, entrance at the back
  • Saturday 11.00–12.00 (meditation meeting), Johanneskyrkan, Drottninggatan 37, one floor down, entrance at the back

Learn more at ca.se and na.se

Here you can find meetings in Norrbotten.

Learn more at ca.se and aa.se

  • Wednesday 18.00, Johanneskyrkan, Drottninggatan 37, 96177 Boden, one floor down. Any questions are answered at the meetings.

Support for family members

If you have a parent or a sibling with problems related to alcohol, drugs, or gambling, you can receive three to five counselling sessions. The purpose is to give information, support, and greater participation in your own life. Two of the sessions include your parents or siblings. The sessions are offered as a service and are not recorded in a medical file.

Contact

MAILTeamstoed@boden.se

This support is for family members of a person with misuse or addiction. Support is provided individually or in a group. The goal is to improve your quality of life and to help you motivate your relative to enter treatment.

Family members are seen as important. You learn new conversation techniques and approaches instead of blame and confrontation. Group meetings offer support, exchange of experience, and networks.

Contact us if you want to join a group or need individual support.

Contact

MAILTeamstoed@boden.se

Dependency Centre at Sunderby Hospital

At the dependency centre can receive advice, counselling, and help with sobering up and detoxification. Family members and close relatives can also receive support. Advice telephone: +46 920 714 28

Signs of risky use

If you or someone close to you has problems with alcohol or narcotics, help is available. Addiction can lead to isolation, mental and physical ill-health, and social and financial problems.
We offer:

  • Advice and support
  • Assessment of risky use or addiction
  • Support and treatment in outpatient care
  • Possibility to apply for care at a residential treatment centre
    Family members can also receive support.

If you, your partner, or someone in your family has problems with gambling for money, support and guidance are available. Signs of gambling addiction over a longer period can be that you:

  • Constantly think about gambling, past gambling experiences, the next gambling session, or how to get money for gambling
  • Need to gamble for increasingly larger sums to achieve the same excitement
  • Have tried and failed several times to limit gambling or to stop
  • Become restless or irritable when you try to limit or stop
  • Gamble to avoid thinking about problems or to escape anxiety or low mood
  • Return to gambling after losses
  • Want to win back losses
  • Lie to hide how much you gamble, no matter who asks
  • Have committed crimes to get money for gambling, for example theft, embezzlement, or forgery
  • Have risked or lost an important relationship, employment, educational opportunity, or career because of gambling
  • Rely on others to obtain money to solve a financial crisis that has arisen due to gambling

Do you want to access a specific document? Contact Citizen Service, and we will help you retrieve and read the full document.

Contact

Citizen Service

E-mail: kommunen@boden.se

Phone: +46 921 620 00