Substance Use & Recovery

Pathways2Life helps teens, young adults, parents, schools, and communities prevent and respond to substance use and other risky behavior. They offer school prevention education, brief crisis intervention, student support groups, and community coalition work in the Atlanta area.

4 services

New Day Treatment Center is an outpatient opioid treatment clinic in southwest Atlanta. They help people with opioid addiction through methadone, Suboxone, counseling, drug screening, case management, and referrals.

Harland Terrace6 services

High Focus Centers in Johns Creek is an outpatient mental health and substance use treatment center for adults and teens. They offer therapy groups, individual care planning, psychiatry support, partial hospitalization, intensive outpatient care, and some virtual options.

14 services

Helping Hands Community Based Services, Inc. is an outpatient behavioral health and substance use provider. They help children, teens, adults, families, schools, and communities with counseling, assessments, case management, crisis help, psychiatric care, and addiction support.

13 services

Gam-Anon is a 12-step support fellowship for people hurt by someone else’s gambling problem. It offers virtual meetings, local meetings, and hotline numbers so family members and loved ones can talk with others and find support.

4 services

Tillman House Resource Center is a ministry of Smyrna First UMC in Smyrna. It helps local neighbors with food co-op access, diapers, wipes, hygiene items, adult classes, support groups, and community meals. Its website says direct financial assistance is on hold, but the newer Hand in Hand Program may offer help after financial education workshops.

12 services

Never Use Alone is a national overdose response hotline for people who are using drugs alone. A trained volunteer stays on the phone, asks for the caller's location, and calls EMS if the caller stops responding.

4 services

Eluna is a nonprofit that helps children, teens, and families who are dealing with grief or addiction in the family. They offer free grief camps, online grief groups, addiction prevention mentoring, resource referrals, and education programs across the U.S. and Canada.

10 services

Center for Suicide Awareness is a Wisconsin nonprofit that offers suicide prevention, emotional support, training, and community programs. Its HOPELINE text service is free and open 24/7 to anyone in the United States who needs someone to talk to.

12 services

Sober Sidekick is a free app for people working on recovery from alcohol, drugs, or other addictions. It gives anonymous 24/7 peer support, recovery posts, sobriety tracking, virtual AA and NA meetings, and help connecting to care when available through a health plan.

7 services

Modern Widows Club is a nonprofit support community for women who have lost a spouse or partner. It helps widows through local and virtual groups, online courses, support clubs, webinars, a helpline, and practical resources for grief, health, parenting, money, and rebuilding life.

11 services

Covenant Community, Inc. helps men who are homeless and recovering from alcohol or drug use. It runs a small residential treatment program, transitional support, family recovery support, and a free peer-led recovery support center in Midtown Atlanta.

9 services

Narcotics Anonymous in the Marietta area is a free 12-step recovery fellowship for people who want to stop using drugs. It offers in-person and virtual meetings, peer support, recovery literature, and help finding meetings in Cobb, Bartow, and Cherokee counties.

7 services

Next Rung helps firefighters and first responders with mental health support. They offer free peer support by text, phone, email, social media, Skype, or FaceTime, and they help people find counseling or inpatient treatment when needed.

6 services

Trans Needle Exchange is a nonprofit mail-based service that sends free HRT injection supplies to trans people who cannot get or afford their own. They also offer harm reduction supplies like Narcan, fentanyl test strips, safer injection supplies, safer smoking supplies, sexual health products, and menstrual products.

4 services

DeKalb Community Service Board now does business as Claratel Behavioral Health. It helps people in DeKalb County with mental health care, crisis help, substance use treatment, developmental disability services, and some residential support.

11 services