Documents in Substance Abuse
Bureau of Substance Abuse Services
– The Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Bureau of Substance Abuse Services (BSAS), works to ensure the delivery of the highest quality, culturally-competent, cost-effective array of alcohol and other drug prevention, treatment, and recovery services to individuals, families and communities in Massachusetts. BSAS also ensures that HIV education and prevention programs are incorporated into all treatment and prevention services and that priority for admission to treatment is given to the high risk intravenous drug user and to pregnant and addicted women. Search their substance abuse prevention and treatment directory of BSAS funded and licensed programs
Massachusetts Organization for Addiction Recovery (MOAR)
– Massachusetts Organization for Addiction Recovery (MOAR) is part of a New England-wide movement to speak up for those in recovery from alcohol and other drug addictions. They strive to give a face and a voice to those in recovery, and to increase awareness about the positive contributions of addiction recovery in our communities and in the workplace.
Narcotics Anonymous
– Narcotics Anonymous sprang from the Alcoholics Anonymous Program of the late 1940s, with meetings first emerging in the Los Angeles area of California, USA, in the early Fifties. The NA program started as a small US movement that has grown into one of the world's oldest and largest organizations of its type. Narcotics Anonymous is an international, community-based association of recovering drug addicts with more than 31,000 weekly meetings in over 100 countries worldwide. You can use this direct link to NA New England in order to locate a meeting in your area.
Alcoholics Anonymous
– Alcoholics Anonymous® is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from alcoholism. The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop drinking. You can find times and places of local A.A. meetings or events by contacting a nearby central office.
