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  • Policy / Education / Recovery Advocacy
  • Mutual Support Groups
  • Local Boston Resources
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how do you know if your drinking
or drug use (or someone else's) is a problem? 
www.checkyourself.org
www.thecoolspot.gov 
www2.potsdam.edu/hansondj/healthissues/1100827422.html

Links: Policy / education / recovery advocacy

  • Faces & Voices of Recovery - a national recovery advocacy campaign that mobilizes people in recovery, their family, friends, and allies to end discrimination and treat addiction as a public health problem. www.facesandvoicesofrecovery.org
  • Join Together - a national resource for communities working to reduce substance use disorders, has a very comprehensive web site. www.jointogether.org
  • Massachusetts Organization for Addiction Recovery (MOAR) - encourages participation in statewide projects encouraging people in addiction recovery, their families, friends and supporters to participate in public awareness campaigns to reduce stigma.
  • TalkAboutAddiction.org - Statewide public awareness campaign to address and reduce the stigma associated with addiction, sponsored by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Bureau of Substance Abuse Services.
  • Blake, Jeanne, Words Can Work When Talking about Drugs, A Guide for Young People, Parents, and Caregivers, Blake Works, Inc., 2006. www.workscanwork.com
  • Allem, Johnny W., Speaking Out for Addiction Recovery, An Advocacy Handbook for Recovered People, Their Families and Friends, Johnson Institute, 2004
  • White, William L., Slaying the Dragon, History of Addiction Treatment and Recovery, 1988, Chestnut Health Systems

Links: Mutual Support Groups

  • Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) - offers support groups and a 12-step program for life without alcohol. www.aa.org
  • Al-Anon/Alateen - provides support for families and friends of alcoholics. www.al-anon.alateen.org
  • Narcotics Anonymous World Service - a society of men and women for whom drugs had become a major problem. www.na.org
  • Nar-Anon/Narateen - support for families and friends of drug users. www.nar-anon.org

Links: Boston organizations

  • Greater Boston Council on Alcoholism, a charitable foundation providing grants to non-profit organizations in the Greater Boston area for prevention education, research, and training. www.gbcoa.org
  • Right Turn, Inc. - "providing treatment to New England artists and entertainers on the road to recovery". Contact Woody Geissmann at www.right-turn.org
  • Children of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse (COASA) - support groups for children from families with substance abuse, under the auspices of Robert F. Kennedy Children's Action Corps. www.rfkchildren.org  Contact Maureen McGlame 617-227-4183.
Links: Applied Theater 
  • American Alliance of Theater & Education, www.aate.com 
  • Applied Theater, international case studies and challenges for practice, edited ty Monica Prendergast and Juliana Intellect University of Chicago, 2009
  • Blatner, Adam, Applied & Interactive Theater Guide: www.interactiveimprov.com
  • www.artslynx.org - "a portal to the best information on the arts available on the web...for researchers, scholars, educators, students and professionals working in the arts."
  • National Association of Drama Therapy (NADT) www.nadt.org
  • Omega Theater - Alternate Graduate Certificate training in Boston for drama therapy. www.omegatheater.org
  • Playback Theater - An improvisational theater style developed by Jonathan Fox in 1975. www.socialhealingarts.org

Links: other resources

  • Blatner, Adam, Acting-In: Practical Applications of Psychodramatic Methods, Springer Publishing, NY 1996. www.blatner.com/adam
  • Blatner, Adam, Interactive and Improvisational Drama: Varities of Applied Theater and Performance, with Daniel Weiner
  • Boal, Augusto, Theater of the Oppressed, 1979, Pluto Press
    Moreno, J.L., The Essential Moreno: Writings on Psychodrama, Group Method, and Spontaneity, Jonathan Fox, editor, Springer Publishing Company, New York
  • Saldana, Johnny, Ethnotheatre, Research from Page to Stage, Left Coast Press, 2011
  • Saldana, Johnny, Fundamentals of Qualitative Research, Oxford Press, 2011
  • Sternberg, Pat and Garcia, Antonia, Sociodrama: Who's in Your Shoes? 

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