Mass DPH Resources for Substance Abuse Education & Support

A Resource Guide for Substance Abuse Education, Information, & Support
Sponsored by Mass DPH

If you suspect someone is overdosing... CALL 911!

Recognizing an opiate overdose
  • Person will not wake up
  • No response to yelling
  • Blue lips or fingernails
  • Clammy, cool skin
  • Shallow, slow breathing
  • Seizures or convulsions
  • No response to knuckles being rubbed hard on breast bone
Overdose Risk Factors
  • Using alone
  • Surviving a past overdose
  • Mixing drugs such as opioids, benzos, and alcohol
  • Change in drug purity
  • Weight loss, health issues or a period of non-use
For Treatment
Support for Family & Friends
For information on Chapter 123-Sec 35 (involuntary commitment)
http://www.mass.gov/eohhs/gov/departments/dph/programs/substance-abuse/addictions/drugs-and-alcohol/section-35-faq.html
or contact your local District Court Civil Clerks Office

 

Recommended Reading

Addict in the Family by Beverly Conyers
It's Not Okay to Be a Cannibal: How to Keep Addiction from Eating your Family Alive by Andrew T. Wainwright
Now What? An Insider's Guide to Addiction and Recovery by William Cope Moyers

Inpatient Detox Treatment

Lahey Health Behavioral Services Treatment Centers - also offers some outpatient services. www.nebhealth.org
Tewksbury at State Hospital: 978-259-7000
Danvers: 978-777-2121
Boston: 617-247-1001
AdCare Hospital** Worcester: 800-345-3552 or 800-252-6465
Community Healthlink Inc*** Worcester: 508-860-1200
Institute for Health and Recovery - Intake for multiple inpatient services for adolescents and families with children.  617-661-3991
Spectrum Health Systems*** Westborough: 800-366-7732
Dimock Detox Roxbury:  617-442-8800 x 1320
SSTAR - also provides services for pregnant women. www.sstar.org Fall River:  800-937-3610 or 508-324-7763

Outpatient Detox/Treatment

CleanSlate Centers Tewksbury: 800-NEW-START
Adcare Hospital Worcester: 800-345-3552 or 800-252-6465
Spectrum Health Systems 800-464-9555
Caritas NORCAP - also has inpatient services Foxboro: 800-331-2900
Veterans Center - also has inpatient services** Bedford: 781-687-2347  Urgent Care: 781-687-2654

Community Support

Lowell Community Health Center Substance Abuse Treatment Office-based Opioid Treatment 161 Jackson Street, Lowell: 978-937-9700
Lowell House Inc. - also provides outpatient substance abuse services.  555 Merrimack Street, Lowell: 978-459-8656
Middlesex Recovery, P.C. - accepts MassHealth.  53 Cummings Park, Woburn, MA 01801 781-305-3300
South Bay Mental Health 978-674-5400
MA Substance Abuse Information and Education Helpline: helpline-online.com 800-327-5050
Narcotis Anonymous (NA): Meetings 866-624-3578
Alcoholics Anonymous (AA): Meetings 978-957-4690
Massachusetts Poison Control Center 800-222-1222
Suicide Prevention Hotline (24 hr): suicidepreventionlifeline.org 800-273-8255
Replacement Therapy (Methadone) Habit OPCO 22 Olde Canal Drive in Lowell: 978-452-5155
Replacement Therapy (Suboxone) - Find a trained prescribing doctor.  Here To Help Program 866-973-4373
Replacement Therapy (Vivitrol): vivitrol.com/GetStarted

*Provides discharge transportation
**Door to door transportation provided
***Transpotration from local train station

Visit www.drugfreegreaterlowell.org for a variety of additional resrouces

For Youth & Young Adults from the MDPH Bureau of Substance Abuse Services:

The updated service directory and quick guide to the youth and young adult treatment system from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH) Office of Youth and Young Adult Services (OYYAS) is now available online and can be ordered for free from the Massachusetts Health Promotion Clearinghouse at: mass.gov/maclearinghouse.