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Resource Guide: SUBSTANCE ABUSE

Last Updated; March 24, 2011

Alcoholics Anonymous

Central Service Office
78 Portland Street
Portland, ME 04101
1-800-737-6237 and 774-3034 (V)

Minnesota Chemical Dependency Program for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Individuals

2450 Riverside Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55454
1-800-282-3323 (V/TTY)
1-866-928-5713 (Toll-Free VP)
(612) 273-4402 (VP)
E-mail: deafhoh1@fairview.org
Website: www.fairview.org/mncddeaf

The Minnesota Chemical Dependency Program for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Individuals is located at the University of Minnesota Medical Center, Fairview Riverside, in Minneapolis Minnesota, and offers inpatient, intensive outpatient and outpatient chemical dependency treatment, as well as ongoing sobriety maintenance counseling. The program specializes in treatment of deaf or hard of hearing persons who are struggling with addiction, and all program staff members are fluent in ASL and sensitive to Deaf culture. The program has been providing services to people from all across the United States and Canada since 1989, and is proud to be one of only a few hospital-based chemical dependency programs for the deaf.

Office of Substance Abuse

Information/Resource Center
41 Anthony Avenue
11 State House Station
Augusta, ME 04333
1-800-606-0215 (TTY Toll Free)
1-800-499-0027 (V Toll Free in Maine only)
287-8900 (V)
287-8910 (FAX)
E-mail: osa.ircosa@maine.gov
Website: www.maineosa.org/irc

The Information/Resource Center is an informational and support service within the Office of Substance Abuse. It serves as a central source of books, pamphlets and videos about alcohol, other drugs, substance abuse treatment and prevention, research and evaluation. A catalogue of closed and open captioned videos related to substance abuse is available.