Atheists & Believers: What Are Some Good Organizations You Know of That Fight Against Hard Drug Addiction?

Published March 6, 2014

Question by Andy F: Atheists & Believers: What are some good organizations you know of that fight against hard drug addiction?
Here in Washington DC, there’s a group called “Second Genesis” that I’ve given money to that is supposed to be pretty successful in getting crack and heroin users off drugs, using a “tough love” method.

I think the founders / organizers are probably Jewish, judging from their literature, but I’m not sure of this.

Are there either religiously oriented or purely secular groups that you know about & recommend supporting, that are helping people to escape from substance abuse & addiction?

Best answer:

Answer by M to the R Mighty RA
A charity local to me is called Broadreach House, they supply clean needles and heroine substitute to people on the streets and house people who are coming off drugs and help them get jobs and their lives back. They are funded mainly by the local health authority, but also by public donations. So are secular, if a little new age in their philosophy

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Charles Chavkin, University of Washington, Part 2 – “Therapeutic Potential of Kappa Opiods in Pain and Addiction” from the 2013 Cellular Biology of Drug Addiction course 8/7/2013.