Alcohol and Other Drugs

Counseling Center staff members are available to meet with you to discuss your concerns about your own alcohol or drug use, or concerns you might have about someone else's use of drugs or alcohol. The Counseling Center staff is also available to speak to classes or other groups on topics related to substance abuse and chemical dependence.

For interested or concerned students unsure of whether or not to make an appointment, the Counseling Center has a large self-help library with many books, pamphlets and other materials on drugs and alcohol. Counseling Center staff can also be of assistance helping students find appropriate materials for classroom presentations and papers.

As with all other mental health and medical services, alcohol and drug issues are kept completely confidential.

Mandated Substance Abuse Evaluations

If you have been referred to the Counseling Center for a substance abuse evaluation, please call or stop in to secure an appointment and let the secretaries know that you have been sent for a mandated substance abuse evaluation. You will be asked to fill out the standard Counseling Center intake information as well as a specific substance abuse history evaluation packet prior to your first meeting with your counselor. Please be aware that mandated substance referrals require the Counseling Center to communicate with the judicial body that was responsible for the referral so that we may inform them about your compliance with the program. This process, as well as other information about confidentiality, will be explained to you at the time of your first visit.

Please be aware that the Counseling Center does not conduct court-mandated drug/alcohol evaluations or counseling.

Online Alcohol & Drug Screening Tools

• How Much is Too Much?
• Do I Have a Drug Problem?

Referral Services

The Counseling Center can provide referral services for students needing more intensive treatment and other modalities of care. The Centers counselors prepare students for such referrals and follow-up with students regarding their satisfaction with referrals in order to assure treatment needs are being met.

On-campus Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) Meeting

Time: Sundays at 10:30 a.m. Location: Room 007, Campus Center

This is an open meeting that anyone can attend.

For more meeting locations, visit: Alcoholics Anonymous

Alcohol and Drug Hotlines

Alcohol

24-hour New Bedford Area Alcohol Hotline
508.992.7788

Mass. Statewide Drug Abuse Hotline
800.327.5050

• Performs telephone crisis intervention
• Refers to AA
• Outpatient clinics
• Detox-rehab
• Other programs
• Receives 30,000 calls/yr.
• Available 24 hrs/7 days/wk

Southcoast
508.997.1515

Alcohol Council of Greater Fall River
508.675.0336

Alcohol Abuse and Drugs (24 hrs.)
800.252.6465

Cape Cod (24 hrs.)
508.771.0132

Adcare
800.345.3552

Brookside
800.866.9006

Phoenix Counseling-Eastern Ave. Fall River, MA
508.676.6336

EAP Taunton
617.822.2151

EAP Fall River
617.674.3090

Drugs

Massachusetts Statewide Drug Abuse Hotline
1.800.327.5050

National Drug Hotline (24 hrs.)
800.729.6686

Cocaine Hotline (24 hrs.)
800.COCAINE

Nat'l Clearinghouse for Alcohol&Drug Info. (NCADI)
800.729.6686

Safe & Drug Free Schools
800.624.0100

Parents Resource Inst. for Drug Ed.
800.853.7867

AA

Administrative Office (Judy)
617.426.9444

New Bedford
508.996.8518

Rhode Island
401.438.8860

Cape Cod
508.775.7060

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Southeastern Massachusetts
508.676.2942

Cape Cod
508.778.6166

New Bedford Crisis Center
508.996.3145

New Bedford Child and Family Srvs.
508.996.8572

National and Regional Networks

Alcohol Hotline
800.ALCOHOL
(Referral information for AA, Al-Anon, Alateen, drug evaluation, substance abuse counseling)

Cocaine Helpline
800.COCAINE

National Institute on Drug Abuse Hotline
800.729.6686

Local Self-Help Referral Networks

New Bedford Council on Alcoholism
234 Earle StreetNew Bedford, MA 02746
508.992.7788

Positive Action Against Chemical Addiction
360 Coggeshall StreetNew Bedford, MA
508.997.9051

Alcohol Abuse Addiction Information and Treatment
401.461.2277

Alcohol/Drug Treatment Programs

ADCARE HospitalWorcester, MA
800.ALCOHOL (252.6465)
88 Faunce Corner Rd., Suite 450,
N. Dartmouth, MA 02747
508.999.1102

To call ADCARE Programs or for Admissions: 800.345.3552

ADCARE Service: Named one of the 100 best treatment centers in the United States. Referral service for alcohol/drug treatment providers.

Beech Hill Hospital
write to: P.O. Box 254 Dublin, NH 03444
800.THEHILL

Butler Hospital
800.272.9699

Brookside Hospital
29 Northwest BoulevardNashua, NH 03063
800.866.9006

Samaritans of New Bedford & Fall River
508.999.7267 or 508.673.3777