Seeking Help
Are you seeking help?
If you, a loved one, or a Holliston neighbor are struggling with drug or alcohol problems, the Holliston Police Department will work with you confidentially and discretely send over a team of specialists who will come to the house of the Holliston resident and provide your family with help. A licensed mental health counselor accompanied by plain-clothed Holliston community officer to offer your family support, advice, and resources for how to access life-saving medically assisted treatment, rehabilitation, or just support about how to handle a family member or friend at home struggling with addiction.
Other resources that may help:
- MA Substance Misuse Information and Education Hotline Online is an amazing resource for finding treatment options for you or a loved one all across Massachusetts.
- Recovery Project and Addiction Campuses serves as an online reference and a 24/7 confidential helpline for those impacted by mental illness and addiction.
- Rehabspot's online web guide focused on educating people on substance misuse treatment.
- DrugRehab.org has ranked the 10 best drug rehab centers in Massachusetts based on information they collected on services provided, staff qualifications, reviews from alumni, and positive treatment outcomes.
- INTERFACE Mental Health Referral Service Helpline, a free confidential mental health outpatient referral services for Holliston Middle and High School students. Tel# 888-244-6843
Learn to Cope: Learn to Cope is a non-profit support network that offers education, resources, peer support and hope for parents and family members coping with a loved one addicted to opiates or other drugs.
Al-Anon: Al‑Anon is a mutual support program for people whose lives have been affected by someone else’s drinking. By sharing common experiences and applying the Al-Anon principles, families and friends of alcoholics can bring positive changes to their individual situations, whether or not the alcoholic admits the existence of a drinking problem or seeks help.
Alateen: Alateen is a fellowship of young people (mostly teenagers) whose lives have been affected by someone else’s drinking whether they are in your life drinking or not. By attending Alateen, teenagers meet other teenagers with similar situations. Alateen is not a religious program and there are no fees or dues to belong to it.
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 free and open to anyone who wants to do something about his or her drinking problem.