Addiction and Recovery

If you or someone you know is struggling with addiction, follow the links below to learn more about recovery and how to get the support you need.

• Addictions & Substance Abuse Program (UNM) – The Addiction and Substance Abuse Program is a comprehensive treatment facility focused on treating substance use disorders through integrated evidenced-based care. For more information, you can contact them at 505-925-2300.
• Adult Children of Alcoholics – Adult Children of Alcoholics (ACA)/Dysfunctional Families is a Twelve Step, Twelve Tradition program of people who grew up in dysfunctional homes. For more information, you can contact them at information@acawso.com or at 310-534-1815.
• Al-Anon Information Service – Al-Anon Family Groups are a fellowship of relatives and friends of problem drinkers who share their experience, strength and hope in order to solve their common problems. We believe alcoholism is a family illness and that changed attitudes can aid recovery.  Al-Anon's primary purpose is to help family and friends of alcoholics, whether the alcoholic is still drinking or not. For more information, you can contact them at abqaisldc@gmail.com or 505-262-2177
  
• Alcoholics Anonymous – Alcoholics Anonymous is an international fellowship of men and women who have had a drinking problem. It is nonprofessional, self-supporting, multiracial, apolitical, and available almost everywhere. There are no age or education requirements. Membership is open to anyone who wants to do something about his or her drinking problem. For more information, you can contact the 24-hour line at 505-266-1900.
• Cocaine Anonymous – Cocaine 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 their addiction. The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop using cocaine and all other mind-altering substances. For more information, you can contact them at 505-359-8224.
• Narcotics Anonymous – NA is a nonprofit fellowship or society of men and women for whom drugs had become a major problem. We are recovering addicts who meet regularly to help each other stay clean. This is a program of complete abstinence from all drugs. There is only one requirement for membership, the desire to stop using. We suggest that you keep an open mind and give yourself a break. Our program is a set of principles written so simply that we can follow them in our daily lives. The most important thing about them is that they work. For more information, you can contact the Central New Mexico NA hotline at 800-798-6649.
• Overeaters Anonymous – Overeaters Anonymous (OA) is a community of people who support each other in order to recover from compulsive eating and food behaviors. We welcome everyone who feels they have a problem with food. For more information, you can contact them at 505-891-2664.
• 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. For more information and to find treatment, you can call their national helpline at 800-662-HELP (4357).