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Treatment & recovery services

The cost of drug abuse in America is estimated at more than $484 billion per year, says the National Institute on Drug Abuse. But the toll that addiction has on individuals and families is perhaps even greater than any damage measured in dollars and cents.

According to the the NIDA:
  • 31 percent of America's homeless suffer from drug abuse or alcoholism.
  • 50 to 80 percent of all child abuse and neglect cases substantiated by child protective services involve some degree of substance abuse by the child's parents.
  • The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimates that drugs are used by approximately 10 to 22 percent of drivers involved in crashes, often in combination with alcohol.
  • At least half of the individuals arrested for major crimes including homicide, theft, and assault were under the influence of illicit drugs around the time of their arrest.
The NIDA, a part of the National Institutes of Health, which is a component of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, says drug addiction is “a complex but treatable brain disease.”

Volunteers of America is experienced in helping break the substance-abuse cycle that can tear families apart, ruin careers, and push those living life as an addict into hopelessness, through a variety of intervention, residential treatment and transitional housing programs.

These include:
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Homeless services
Housing Assistance Program
Substance abuse counseling
Homeless shelters
Bannon Street Shelter
A Street Shelter
Open Arms
Winter Shelter
Treatment & recovery services
Options for Recovery [treatment]
Alcohol Treatment Center
Substance abuse counseling
Residential Treatment Center
Mental health services
Community Outreach Service
Halcyon Place
Senior services
Senior Safe House
Affordable housing coordination
Transitional housing
Mather Community Campus
Independent Living Readiness
Options for Recovery [transitional]
Former foster youth housing
Transitional Housing for Women
Transitional Housing for Families
Permanent supportive housing
Hope House
Nova House
Omega Project
Halcyon Place
Youth services
Former foster youth housing
Children's Emergency Shelter