https://sites.google.com/view/drug-facts-101/resources Hotlines for Mainers:
Using Payphone? "888", "800" and "911" are free calls!
--> 911: If a suicide attempt has been made, a weapon is present or if the person is out of control.
(888) 568-1112 (TTY 711): Mental Health Crisis Hotline (Maine ONLY) is answered by people trained to assess suicide risk.
(800) 273-TALK (8255): National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. Call from anywhere in the U.S. Includes a hotline for Veterans.
(800) 222-1222: Northern New England Poison Center gives information and treatment advice for poison emergencies.
--> 211: Maine Resource Directory gives information on services, counseling, medical help and support groups.
(800) 499-9130: Youth Crisis Stabilization Program
(800) 737-6237: Alcoholics Anonymous
(888) 425-2666: Al-Anon
(800) 974-0062: Narcotics Anonymous
(800) 452-6457: Maine Drug Enforcement Tip Hotline
(800) 621-4000: National Runaway Switchboard
(800) 239-9150: Watershed Addiction Treatment
(800) 448-3000: Girls and Boys Town 24-Hour National Hotline
(800) 784-2433: National Suicide Hotline
(800) 252-TEEN: Samariteens Suicide Prevention Hotline
(800) 931-2237: Eating Disorders Awareness and Prevention
(858) 481-1515: Eating Disorder Referral and Information Center
(314) 588-1683: Bulimia and Self-Help 24-Hour Hotline
AIDS Hotline (800) FOR-AIDS
American Social Health Association: Sexually Transmitted Disease Hotline (800) 227-8922
CDC AIDS Information (800) 232-4636
AIDS Info: Treatment, Prevention and Research (800) HIV-0440
National AIDS Hotline (800) 342-AIDS
Child Protection Hotline (Los Angeles County DCFS) Within CA (800) 540-4000 Outside CA (213) 283-1960
Judge Baker Children’s Center – Child Abuse Hotline (800) 792-5200
Child Help USA National Child Abuse Hotline (800) 422-4453
Covenant House (800) 999-9999
National Youth Crisis Hotline (800) 442-HOPE (4673)
National Domestic Violence Hotline (800) 799-7233
National US Child Abuse Hotline (800) 422-4453
American Association of Poison Control Centers (800) 222-1222
America Social Health: STD Hotline (800) 227-8922
Shoplifters Anonymous (800) 848-9595
Teen Help Adolescent Resources (800) 840-5704
Abuse Victim Hotline (866) 662-4535
National Hotline for Missing & Exploited Children (800) 843-5678
National Help Line for Substance Abuse (800) 262-2463
Maine Warmline: (866) 771-9276 --> Offers telephone support during challenging times and non-crisis situations.
Support Services:
Your Place, Inc. 8 Old Mill Road - Ellsworth, Maine 04605 - (207) 374-2733 - YPI is incorporated as a 501 (c)(3) non-profit corporation. They host meetings for Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), Narcotics Anonymous (NA; meets at Noon, 7 days a week), Overeaters Anonymous (OA), Co-Dependents Anonymous (CODA), and Al-Anon.
Counselors In Maine:
(207) 288-5888 --> Dawn Nuding, LCPC, Art Therapist --> Mount Desert, Maine --> One-On-One, Counseling / Art Therapy --> Kids, teens and grown-ups
(207) 667-1308 --> Alan Wittenberg, M.A., CMT (Surry Music Therapy) --> Surry, Maine --> One-On-One / Group --> Kids, teens and grown-ups
(207) 412-8881 --> Cynthia Booker-Bingler, LCSW, Therapeutic Way --> 259 Toddy Pond Road --> One-On-One for kids, teens and grown-ups using canine (dogs). Accepts most major insurances, MaineCare and Medicare.
Support Services for Imprisoned Persons:
Maine Prisoner Advocacy Coalition --> maineprisoneradvocacy.org --> maineprisoneradvocacy@yahoo.com --> P.O. Box 2173 Waterville, Maine --> MPAC is made up of Maine prisoners, their friends, families, victims of crime, and others committed to positive changes in Maine's prison system.
Self-Help Websites:
www.gocomix.com - Funny Stuff - You can use your Google login for this website. Try reading a cartoon to put a smile on your face. "Peanuts" and "Pickles" are good cartoons to try if nothing else.
www.teenshealth.org
www.ifred.org
www.girlsandboystown.org
www.abovetheinfluence.com
www.mentor.org
www.dbsalliance.org
www.nationaleatingdisorders.org - Eating Disorder Recovery
www.edap.org
www.selfinjury.com - Self-Harm Recovery
www.blurtitout.org - U.K. Website - The Blurt Foundation - Get free email blogs to your email's inbox at about 4 or 5 am on the weekend to recover from depression! Or if you want to buy the book they wrote:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/...
https://easyread.drugabuse.gov/
Articles To Read:
https://alcohol.addictionblog.org/why-do-people-start-drinking-alcohol-top-10-reasons/
https://www.alcoholtreatment.net/mouthwash-drunk/
Good Things To Do & Always Remember!
Never give up!
Love yourself!
Find the meaning of life!
Love is the only freedom!
Get rid of any "friends" - those people who don't help you.
Try doing something safe you think you can't do, but first, write about how you feel now so you can look back and see what really happened (put thoughts where they really belong).
Breathe!
Do art! Do mixed media. Try pens with paint or pens with markers. Or markers with paint.
Addictions of any kind will only make things worse! Get help! Talk to someone. If one person doesn't work, try someone else. Not everyone knows how to help someone else in a crisis because maybe your crisis never happened to them or someone they know. Maybe they don't understand. Maybe one person will understand that you need help, and why, and how. Never give up if you are in this muddle (meaning a problem to fix).
If you don't know what you are doing, you probably shouldn't be doing it.
If you don't know what you are talking about, probably shouldn't be talking about it.
Use common sense! (Or ask a wiser person a question)
The customer is always right! (Works for retail and other things.)
The power is within you!
Kristina Greenier's Any Addict Version Of The 12-Step Program:
Please note the step #5 might be the hardest step
for people living with Autism.
We admitted we were powerless over our addiction - that our lives had become unmanageable.
Came to believe that a Higher Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of our Higher Power.
Made a searching and fearless mental list of ourselves.
Admitted to our Higher Power, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
Were entirely ready to have our Higher Power remove all these defects of character.
Humbly asked our Higher Power to remove our shortcoming.
Made a list of all persons we have harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
Continued to take our mental list (see step 4) and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it.
Wanted through hope and reflection to improve our contact with our Higher Power, asking for knowledge and wisdom.
Having this aostucy recovery as a result of these, steps, we try to teach these skills to other addicts and in order to best retain what we have learned.
AOSTUCY: (a-oss-too-cee; noun)
Meaning 1: Any woman clean from cutting/slashing. (Because "TUC" is "CUT" spelt backwards).
Meaning 2: Anyone clean from any addiction. (Kristina feels like "Sober" is a word that is good, and "Recovery" is good, but we need this too!)
Word meaning made by Kristina Greenier as an 11th grader.
Recovery Songs:
Yellow - Coldplay
In My Place - Coldplay
Shower The People - James Taylor
You've Got A Friend - Carole King & James Taylor
If You Want Love - NF
Let You Down - NF
Lie - NF
WHY - NF
Oh Lord - NF
Green Lights - NF
Malibu - Miley Ray Cyrus
Recovery - Céline Dion
Things To Try:
Hand Spinners
Drinking Tea
Dutch Candy
Ginger Candy
Essential Oils
Glow Candles - Fake changing flame with remote - Made out of real wax and smells like a real candle
2N is a passcode for when fear gets to you (Code from this movie: "Second Chances" Hallmark Movie; spoiler alert: the firefighter was freaking out)
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