Resources
Adult Children of Alcoholics - World Service Organization
The Association of Recovery Schools advocates for the promotion, strengthening, and expansion of secondary and post-secondary programs designed for students and families committed to achieving success in both education and recovery.
The Center for the Study of Addiction and Recovery is committed to achieving six primary goals:
- Quality, long-term recovery for the student population through the creation of a Collegiate Recovery Community.
- Development of resiliency in recovering students who often lack the personal, social, academic, and professional skills necessary to be successful.
- Education about the disease of addiction and effective strategies for the prevention and treatment of its consequences.
- Service within the university, local, state, and national communities.
- Creation of an effective replication model that will allow other institutions of higher education to offer similar programs to positively impact their recovering students.
- Research that impacts the way addiction is viewed from an individual, familial, and social perspective, and which will improve treatment success nationwide.
Counselor, the Magazine for Addiction Professionals is a national, peer-reviewed publication that blends the in-depth information often found in journals with the ease-of-read and style of a magazine.
SAMHSA, an agency in the Department of Health and Human Services, is the Federal Government's lead agency for improving the quality and availability of substance abuse prevention, addiction treatment, and mental health services in the United States.
The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) at Columbia University is the only nation-wide organization that brings together under one roof all the professional disciplines needed to study and combat abuse of all substances -- alcohol, nicotine as well as illegal, prescription and performance enhancing drugs -- in all sectors of society.