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From prevention to sustained recovery, we infuse best-in-class science with compassion to support families caring for a child or loved one struggling with substance use.
Addiction is a complex disease, often chronic in nature, which affects the functioning of the brain and body. It also causes serious damage to families, relationships, schools, workplaces and neighborhoods. The most common symptoms of addiction are severe loss of control, continued use despite serious consequences, preoccupation with using, failed attempts to quit, tolerance and withdrawal.
Starting an NA meeting can be relatively easy. NA meetings may vary greatly in structure and format, however,
Mental health is an undeniably important matter, yet most people don’t have access to the resources they need.
Related Organizations
– For more, visit these related organizations
Related Resources
– Visit sites below for more on addiction
- American Association for the Treatment of Opiate Dependence
- Addiction Technology Transfer Center
- Alcohol Addiction Center
- APA Division on Psychopharmacology
- Center for Education and Drug Abuse
- Center for Substance Abuse Treatments (CSAT)
- Drug Policy Alliance
- Ensuring Solutions to Alcohol Problems
- Ernest Gallo Clinic and Research Center
- Mental Health Resource
- Narcotics Anonymous
- National Alliance of Advocates for Buprenorphine Treatment
- The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse
- National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Abuse Information (Columbia)
- National Institute on Abuse and Addiction (NIAAA)
- National Institute on Drug Abuse
- Substance Abuse and Crime Prevention Act of 2000 (Prop. 36)
- Substance Abuse Policy Research Program (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation)
- SMART Recovery
- SAMHSA Treatment Finder
- Start Your Recovery
- Treatment Research Institute