Recovery & Treatment Resources
Massachusetts Organization for Addiction Recovery (MOAR)
MOAR has a comprehensive guide of resources across the state and you can click the link to the “mini-guide” below.
Visit their website at www.moar-recovery.org and the Facebook Page (@MOARRecovery)
Note: The resources below are in no particular order.
Medication Assisted Treatment
Lynn Community Health Center
Address: 269 Union Street, Lynn, MA
Phone: 781.581.3900
BrightView
Address: 110 Munroe St., Lynn, MA 01901
Phone:1.833.510.4329
Chat: Link on the site
Lawrence Memorial Medical Center
Address: 6 Essex Center Dr, Peabody, MA 01960
Phone: (978) 532-1730 and (978) 655-5290
Website
Lynn Comprehensive Treatment Center
Address: 11 Circle Ave, Lynn, MA 01905
Phone: 855.602.7699
Website
Mass General Hospital (MGH) Bridge Clinic
Address: 55 Fruit Street, Boston
Phone: (617) 643-8281
Website
Help Lines and Organizations
Recovery Support Hotline -North Suffolk Community Services
Free, around-the-clock Recovery Support Hotline answered by Recovery Coaches.
Call or text 1-844-NSPEERS (677-3377)
MGH Addiction Recovery Management Services (ARMS)
Outpatient, dual-diagnoses clinic providing support and treatment to adolescents, young adults, and their families.
Address: 32 Fruit Street, Boston, MA
Phone: 617-643-4699
Website
Boston Public Health Commission Recovery Services
Information on Boston's prevention, treatment, and recovery support services, including a resource guide to services.
Website
Providing Access to Addictions Treatment, Hope. and Support (PAATHS)
Information and access to substance use treatment services through phone support, community support, and walk-in services.
Phone: 617-534-3599
Website
Access, Harm Reduction. Overdose Prevention, and Education (AHOPE)
Harm reduction and syringe exchange site providing a range of services including risk reduction counseling and referrals.
Phone: 617-534-3976
Website
Adolescent Substance Use and Addiction Program (ASAP) at Boston Children's Hospital
Identification, diagnosis, and treatment of substance use problems and disorders in children and adolescents.
Phone: 617-355-2727
FindTreatment.gov
Free national resources to help get connected to substance use and mental health treatment.
Phone: 1-800-662-4357
The Massachusetts Substance Use Helpline
Statewide resource for finding treatment, recovery, and problem gambling services.
Phone: 1-800-327-5050
Cambridge Health Alliance - Outpatient Psychiatry
https://www.challiance.org/servicesprograms/mental-health-and-substance-use
Offers support in adult, adolescent, geriatric psychiatry, as well as outpatient addiction and behavioral health services.
Phone: 617-665-1372
Website
HKD Treatment Options
Address: 84 Highland Avenue
Phone: (978) 744-2999
Website
Salem Family Health Center
Address: 47 Congress St., Salem
Phone: (978) 744-8388
Website
Gloucester Family Health Center
302 Washington Street, Gloucester, MA 01930
Phone: (978) 282-8899
Peabody Family Health Center
89 Foster Street, Peabody, MA 01960
Phone: (978) 532-4903
SAMHSA Medically Assisted Treatment Resources
Including Medication-Assisted Treatment Services Locators and Substance Use Disorder Treatment Services Locators
Website
Community Behavioral Health Centers
Community Behavioral Health Centers (CBHCs) serve as a single entry point for timely, high-quality, mental health and substance use disorder treatment for youth, families, and adults 24/7.
Eliot CBHC
Tri City Area CBHC
95 Pleasant St
Lynn, MA 01901
800-988-1111
North Shore CBHC
10 Harbor St
Danvers, MA 01923
888-769-5201
In January 2023, Eliot opened two cutting edge Community Behavioral Health Centers (CBHCs) providing timely and high-quality evidence-based treatment for mental health and substance use disorders. Offering innovative and person-centered care, the CBHCs provide easy access to care for people who too often seek help in hospital emergency departments.
Harm Reduction/Referral Services
Healthy Street
100 Willow St 2nd Floor, Lynn, MA 01901
(339) 440-5633
Healthy Streets provides educational and risk reduction groups, plus risk reduction materials for active injection drug users, such as condoms, bleach kits, needle exchange information and overdose prevention materials and training.
All services are free, abstinence is not required for services, care or respect.
Harm Reduction Coalition
Harm reduction is a set of practical strategies and ideas aimed at reducing negative consequences associated with drug use. Harm Reduction is also a movement for social justice built on a belief in, and respect for, the rights of people who use drugs.
Harm reduction incorporates a spectrum of strategies from safer use, to managed use to abstinence to meet drug users “where they’re at,” addressing conditions of use along with the use itself. Because harm reduction demands that interventions and policies designed to serve drug users reflect specific individual and community needs, there is no universal definition of or formula for implementing harm reduction.
Outpatient Counseling
Resolute Recovery
Address: 20 Central Ave, 6th Floor, Lynn, MA 01901
Phone: 339-500-5417
Website
BrightView
Address: 110 Munroe St., Lynn, MA 01901
Phone:1.833.510.4329
Chat: Link on the site
Website
Baystate Recovery Center
Address: 950 Cummings Center Suite 106-X Beverly, MA 01915
Phone: (855)-88-SOBER
Email: email@baystaterecovery.com
Website
Addison Gilbert Hospital-DISCOVER Program
CLOSED
Eliot Community Human Services
Counseling for mental health and substance use, psychiatric services
Address: 95 Pleasant St., Lynn
Phone: (781) 581-4460
Website
South Bay Community Services - Salem
Address: 35 Congress Street, Suite 225, Salem
Phone: 508-521-2200
Admissions/Referrals: 508-427-5362
Website
Wakefield Outpatient and Community Behavioral Health Clinic
37 Water Street, Unit 1,Wakefield
Admissions/Referrals Department: 508-427-5362
Main Number: 508-521-2200
Website
Recovery Centers of America
Address: 75 Lindall St, Danvers, MA 01923
Phone: (978) 767-2847
Website
Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP)
Resolute Recovery
Address: 20 Central Ave, 6th Floor, Lynn, MA 01901
Phone: 339-500-5417
Website
Woburn Addiction Treatment
Address: 53 Cummings Park, Woburn, MA 01801
Phone: 877-995-9351
Website
Chapters Recovery Center
Address: 85 Constitution Ln, Suite 200A, Danvers, MA
Phone: 833-580-1449
Website
Lahey Health Behavioral Services
Address: 800 Cummings Center, Suite 266T Beverly
Phone: (978) 921-1190
Substance Use Crisis: 978.744.1585 | 866.523.1216
Website
Elderly
Greater Lynn Senior Services (GLSS)
8 Silsbee Street, Attn. Rosalie Grattaroti
Lynn, MA 01901
Phone: (781) 599-0110
Website
Veterans
Head Strong
Veterns Alcohol & Drug Dependence
PTSD and Substance Abuse in Veterans
U.S. Dept. of Veteran's Affairs
Health Innovations, INC.
Created in response to the ever changing needs and challenges of the health and human service systems. We are a woman- and minority-owned company which collectively brings together over 45 years of experience in health and human services. We have access to a comprehensive network of experienced and diverse health and human service professionals and paraprofessionals. Our focus is to find solutions across all spectrums of service programming, implementation, evaluation and training. We offer personalized service, whether it’s working with a patient to navigate the health care system or assisting a program to develop creative strategies to ensure quality of care. Our goal is to increase access to care, improve quality of care and reduce health disparities.
Recovery Research Institute
The Recovery Research Institute is a leading nonprofit research institute of Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School, dedicated to the advancement of addiction treatment & recovery.
Addiction is one of the greatest public health crises of our time, with staggeringly high rates of mortality, disease & disability.
We need scientific research to improve the effectiveness of addiction treatment & recovery efforts, to find out what is & what is not working, & why certain pathways to recovery work for some individuals & not others.
At the Recovery Research Institute, we know that stable & long-term recovery from alcohol & other drug use disorders is possible. Rates of recovery can continue to be improved through focused scientific investigation & a commitment to public education.
National Institute on Drug Abuse
Our mission is to advance science on the causes and consequences of drug use and addiction and to apply that knowledge to improve individual and public health.
This involves:
Strategically supporting and conducting basic and clinical research on drug use (including nicotine), its consequences, and the underlying neurobiological, behavioral, and social mechanisms involved.
Ensuring the effective translation, implementation, and dissemination of scientific research findings to improve the prevention and treatment of substance use disorders and enhance public awareness of addiction as a brain disorder.
NIDA also provides a guide to questions to ask when seeking treatment that can be found here.
NIDA's Easy-to-Read Drug Facts: www.easyread.drugabuse.gov.
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
Also part of the National Institute of Health
Massachusettes Substance Use Helpline
The Helpline is the only statewide, public resource for finding licensed and approved substance use treatment and recovery services. The goal is to give you the information and treatment referrals that are right for you. Anyone can use the Helpline, whether you’re struggling with substance use or care about someone who is. When you call or use the website, the Helpline will:
Assess your needs with simple questions
Provide referrals to treatment and recovery services
Help you access treatment
Answer your questions about addiction, treatment, and recovery
Call the HELPLINE at 800.327.5050 8am-10pm Mon-Fri, and 8am-6pm weekends. The Helpline is open on all holidays.
You can also find treatment options 24 hours a day on the website.
The Helpline is funded by the Bureau of Substance Addiction Services of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health.
Addiction Guide
Addiction Guide was created to provide the most comprehensive information on addiction and addiction treatment. We are a diverse team made up of recovering addicts, healthcare professionals, and patient advocates. Our advocates are committed to providing the most up-to-date information and resources tailored toward each person’s specific needs. We want to help you find the best care possible.
Facing Addiction
Facing Addiction Inc. is a national non-profit organization dedicated to finding solutions to the addiction crisis by unifying the voice of the over 45 million Americans and their families directly impacted by addiction.
Vision
Bring together the best resources in the field in order to reduce the human and social costs of addiction, every year, until this public health crisis is eliminated.
Youth and Young Adult Services
The Office of Youth and Young Adult Services staff designs, implements, and oversees the programs, policies and initiatives that are created by the Bureau to address substance abuse issues among youth and young adults. The purpose of this office is to build and maintain system capacity across the continuum of care. The directive of the office is to provide effective, accessible, and affordable substance abuse treatment for youth and their families. The OYYAS staff believes services should be developed which utilize evidenced based practices, are youth-focused and inclusive of family and caregiver involvement, and involve multi-service coordination with other state agencies and youth service providers. In addition to community-based outpatient assessment and counseling, the Bureau offers comprehensive residential treatment services that focus on substance use disorders. Please visit the website above as they contain additional information about youth prevention and treatment.
Massachusetts Organization for Addiction Recovery (MOAR)
Resources for Recovery A mini guide
This guide includes an array of “how to and where to go for help” fact sheets to support individuals and families in the recovery process.It needs your help to become MOAR resourceful to you.
Speaking out for Addiction Recovery (SOAR)
SSI/SSDI Outreach, Access, and Recovery (SOAR) is funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and is a national program designed to increase access to the disability income benefit programs administered by the Social Security Administration (SSA) for eligible adults who are experiencing or at risk of homelessness and have a serious mental illness, medical impairment, and/or a co-occurring substance use disorder.
Main Website
Mass Website
SOAR Mass. Recovery Community Organizations Interactive Map
Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) is the agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that leads public health efforts to advance the behavioral health of the nation. SAMHSA’s mission is to reduce the impact of substance abuse and mental illness on America’s communities.
SAMHSA’s National Helpline
1-800-662-HELP (4357)
TTY: 1-800-487-4889
Website: www.samhsa.gov/find-help/national-helpline
*this Helpline provides 24-hour free and confidential treatment referral and information about mental and/or substance use disorders, prevention, and recovery in English and Spanish.
Massachusetts Behavioral Health Access
The Massachusetts Behavioral Health Access (MABHA) website is designed to enable behavioral health and health care providers to locate potential openings in mental health and substance use services for the purpose of referring individuals to those available services. They welcome youth, families, and other stakeholders, such as state agency staff, to utilize the website to locate those services that they can access directly from the community.
Bureau of Substance Abuse Services (BSAS)
The Bureau of Substance Abuse Services (BSAS) oversees the substance abuse and gambling prevention and treatment services in the Commonwealth. Responsibilities include: licensing programs and counselors; funding and monitoring prevention and treatment services; providing access to treatment for the indigent and uninsured; developing and implementing policies and programs; and tracking substance abuse trends in the state.
Massachusetts Behavioral Health Partnership
MBHP manages behavioral health care for more than 430,000 MassHealth Members statewide. Working with its network of providers, MBHP offers high quality, accessible, culturally sensitive health care to Members of the MassHealth Primary Care Clinician (PCC) Plan, Community Care Cooperative (C3), Partners HealthCare Choice, Steward Health Choice, and the BeHealthy Partnership. We also serve children in state custody and others.
Addiction Policy Forum
Note: This site is essentially useless. Feel free to have a look using the link below. The text below is what they claim to accomplish with their site.
The Addiction Policy Forum is a diverse partnership of organizations, policymakers and stakeholders committed to working together to elevate awareness around addiction and to improve national policy through a comprehensive response that includes prevention, treatment, recovery and criminal justice reform.
Addiction Resource Center (ARC)
An initiative of the Addiction Policy Forum and also pretty much useless unless (maybe) you live in Maryland.
Addiction Resource Center is a comprehensive, interactive portal to support individuals and families struggling with addiction, learn about substance use disorders, and access help.
The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
Provides up-to-the-minute information on current and emerging drug trends, a vast amount of information on things related to addiction, and a huge vault of scientific research related to all types of addiction.
American Board of Addiction Medicine
Find an addiction physician through the American Board of Addiction Medicine.
American Society of Addiction Specialists
Find an addiction physician or addiction psychiatrist through the American Society of Addiction Specialists
The National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, Inc. (NCADD)
A broad-reaching resource: Information about addiction, a self-administered “test” to determine if you might be addicted, signs and symptoms, where to go for help, recovery support, and advocacy opportunities.
The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse
A national nonprofit research and policy organization focused on improving the understanding, prevention and treatment of substance use and addiction. Their website provides great resources on topics such as: What is addiction, types of addiction, addiction as a disease, commonly misused prescription drugs, who develops addiction, commonly used substances, untreated addiction and substance abuse, prevention strategies, treatment, and related reading materials, to name just a few.
The National Alliance for Recovery Residences (NARR)
A 501-c3 nonprofit and recovery community organization (RCO) that currently serves 25 regional affiliate organizations. These affiliate organizations collectively support over 25,000 persons in addiction recovery who are living in over 2,500 certified recovery residences throughout the United States.
MISSION: Our mission is to support persons in recovery from addiction by improving their access to quality recovery residences through standards, support services, placement, education, research and advocacy. VISION We envision all persons in recovery from addiction having access to the recovery support they need to live happier, healthier lives. NARR values hope, compassion, respect, honesty, responsibility, and fairness.
Community Reinforcement and Family Training (CRAFT)
Approach: An evidence-based, nonconfrontational method of encouraging people to enter treatment for addiction.*
CRAFT: An Alternative to Intervention(link is external): This resource page is from the HBO Documentary “Addiction,” which was cosponsored by NIAAA and NIDA.
Addiction: The Next Step—Crisis Toolkit(link is external): Offers videos, tips, and tools to guide individuals in using the CRAFT approach.
Get Your Loved One Sober: Alternatives to Nagging, Pleading, and Threatening* by Robert J. Meyers and Brenda L. Wolfe. Available from booksellers and libraries, this book provides guidance in using the CRAFT approach.
How To Save A Life Foundation
The brain-child of Marti Hottenstein, the How To Save A Life Foundation in Warminster, PA, was created to help people suffering with addiction, and their families. “Addiction is not a moral issue it is a disease which can be treated.How to Save a Life's goal is provide assistance to those suffering from addictive disorders receive the help they want and need. How to Save a Life is giving the chance of life that Karl D. Hottenstein did not have.
Salvation Army Adult Rehabilitation Centers
For over 100 years The Salvation Army’s Adult Rehabilitation Centers and Harbor Light programs have provided spiritual, social, and emotional assistance for men and women who have lost the ability to cope with their problems and provide for themselves. Centers offers residential housing, work, and group and individual therapy, all in a clean, wholesome environment.
DualDiagnosis.org
While this website's name may sound like it's specific to a dual diagnosis, it has some really good information about addiction, incredibly well written articles, and terrific info graphics.
National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Compass
Navigating the mental healthcare system can be complicated—we help individuals and families affected by mental health issues find their way.
The NAMI Mass Compass is operated by peers and family members who have dealt with these issues first hand. Navigators are available to answer a wide range of questions and refer to NAMI support & education programs and other community resources.
Common Questions & Topics Include…
Where to find support (Peer and Family)
How to access treatment
Employment Issues
Police & Legal System
Housing programs & questions
Managing financial stress
NAMI Education Programs
Substance Use
Discharge Rights
Transportation
Insurance Issues & Questions
Benefits
Youth & Transition
and much more!
(617) 704-NAMI (6264) or toll-free, (800) 370-9085 Monday-Friday 9 am to 5 pm and a NAMI Mass Compass Navigator will email or call you back with more information.
