Substance Abuse

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Recommended Books on Substance Abuse

A Woman's Guide to Recovery

Brenda Iliff (2008)

Overcoming Prescription Drug Addiction: A Guide to Coping and Understanding

Rod Colvin (2008)

Healing and Hope: Six Women from the Betty Ford Center Share Their Powerful Journeys of Addiction and Recovery

Betty Ford (2003)

Straight Talk from Claudia Black: What Recovering Parents Should Tell Their Kids about Drugs and Alcohol

Claudia Black (2003)

Mindful Recovery: A Spiritual Path to Healing from Addiction

Thomas and Beverly Bien (2002)

Faces of Change: Do I Have a Problem with Alcohol or Drugs? Easy-to-Read (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration)

Alcohol and Drug Treatment: How It Works, and How It Can Help You (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration)

Helping Yourself Heal: A Recovering Woman's Guide to Coping with Childhood Abuse Issues (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration)
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Last Updated May 2009

NC Services & Support

Alcohol and Substance Abuse Program (UNC at Chapel Hill)
(888) 457-7457

Horizons Program (UNC at Chapel Hill)
This resource is designed to meet the needs of pregnant and postpartum women with alcohol or substance abuse problems.
(919) 966-9803

Substance Abuse Treatment Facility Locator (SAMHSA)

Drug Abuse – NC Health Info

Alcoholism – NC Health Info

Web Links

Addictions (American Academy of Family Physicians)

Drug Use, Abuse, and Addiction (National Women’s Health Information Center)

Drug Addiction (Mayo Clinic)

Testing for Drugs of Abuse (American Association for Clinical Chemistry)

Alcohol – A Women’s Health Issue (National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism)

Alcohol – Online Tests (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration)

Drug Abuse – MedlinePlus

Pregnancy and Substance Abuse - MedlinePlus