Helplines & Support Groups on the Costa Calida

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Helplines & Support Groups on the Costa Calida

Below are the contact numbers for Spanish helplines and support groups for Alcoholics Anonymous, Drug Abuse, HIV/Aids, the Spanish Red Cross, Cancer Support, Family Planning Clinics and Newcomer Groups. Please note that English may not be spoken.

Helplines

Alcoholics Anonymous

AA Spain is the website for the English-speaking Alcoholics Anonymous network in Spain.

• For the AA Spain website: Click here

Meetings, in English, are held throughout the Costa Cálida. To find the nearest Alcoholic Anonymous meeting in the Province of Murcia see the regional page of the AA Spain website

• For the AA Murcia website: Click here
• For a map of meetings throughout Spain: Click here 
• Or, see the AngloFILE listings for Alcoholics Anonymous: Click here

Costa Blanca AA (English-speaking)

The Costa Blanca AA is the English-speaking Alcoholics Anonymous network in this area of Spain. Up-to-date information is published on the website aa-costablanca.com. 

• Costa Blanca AA Helpline (24 hour confidential service) Costa Blanca SOUTH 
  Tel: 625 912 078 (for areas south of Alicante)
  Website
  e-mail 

Spanish AA

The national Spanish AA is Alcohólicos Anónimos.

• For the Spanish national Alcohólicos Anónimos website: Click here

Cancer Support

The Spanish Cancer Association (Asociación Española Contra el Cáncer, AECC) provides information and support to people with cancer. There are 52 regional branches across Spain including one in the province of Murcia.

• Spanish Cancer Association
  At: C/Amador de los Rios, 5
  28010 Madrid
  Tel: 900 100 036
  Website

• Spanish Cancer Association: Murcia area
  At: Entierro de la Sardina, s/n

  30004 Murcia
  Tel: 968 28 45 88

  e-mail

MABS is an English-speaking cancer support group. It offers support to cancer sufferers and their families including information, assistance and meetings. There is also a telephone service manned by volunteers for cancer-related questions and advice. The aim of the MABS Cancer Support Group is to help all people affected by cancer (sufferer, family and friends) by providing a telephone counselling service or through personal visits when required.

• MABS Mazarron
  Tel: 620 422 410
  Website
  e-mail
• MABS Murcia
  Tel: 693 275 779
• MABS has a dedicated emergency number - Tel: 620 598 898
  Website
  e-mail

Drug Abuse

There are many drug dependency centres (centros de atencion a drogodependencias, C.A.D.) which offer advice, support and medication to drug addicts in the Murcia region.

• For contact information for drug dependency centres: Click here (PDF, in Spanish)

Family Planning Clinics

The Spanish Contraception Society (Fundación Española de Contracepción, SEC) offers advice on contraception and has contact information on family planning clinics.

• For the Spanish Contraception Society website: Click here (in Spanish)

HIV/Aids

The Comité Antisida de la Región de Murcia (CASMU) supports people with HIV and promotes awareness of the illness. It also offers information on HIV and AIDS and offers free, confidential testing.

• CASMU has two offices on the Costa Cálida
  At: Travesía C/Bolos, 8 1ºb,
  30005 Murcia
  Tel: 968 298 831
  At: Plaza San Gines, 4 bajo
  30202 Cartagena
  Tel: 968 521 841

Newcomer Groups

• For a list of groups for newcomers to the region, see The AngloFILE: Clubs & Associations

Spanish Red Cross

The Spanish Red Cross (Cruz Roja) provides help for drug addicts and their families, people affected by HIV and AIDS, immigrants and the elderly. There are Red Cross assistance centres and help points in Almería, Granada and across Andalucía. The centres offer emergency and psychological help, a meeting place and a shelter. Further services include social integration classes and first aid courses, assistance in finding accommodation, treatment for drug addiction and mobile methadone units. Helping minors is a special priority.

• Spanish Red Cross
  Website (in Spanish)
• Murcia Regional Red Cross
  At: C/ Sanmartín 3, 30003 Murcia
  Tel: 968 220 451
  Website
  e-mail

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Further Information

• AngloINFO INFOrmation Page, Emergency Telephone Numbers in Murcia
• AngloINFO INFOrmation Page,  Lost & Stolen Credit Cards & Mobile / Cellular Phones in Spain