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If you’re supporting a loved one through substance use challenges, our resources deliver the insight, guidance, and support you need to navigate this path together.
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Use FindTreatment.gov, the SAMHSA National Helpline or SAFE Project Locator to find treatment options near you.
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Face It TOGETHER provides confidential, evidence-based peer coaching for those impacted by addiction, including loved ones. They do not require sobriety or follow a one-size-fits-all program. They can help you make sense of your loved one’s addiction and focus on positive ways to influence change.
Are you looking for resources to help you support someone struggling with addiction? Is someone else’s addiction negatively affecting you? Perhaps you’re seeking an alternative to tough love? SMART Recovery provides effective, easy-to-learn tools to help you and your loved one.
Their meetings – available both in-person and online – provide concerned significant others the tools they need to effectively support their loved one without supporting the addictive behavior. These tools also help Family & Friends better cope with their loved one’s situation and regain peace of mind.
Al-Anon is a mutual support program for people whose lives have been affected by someone else’s drinking. By sharing everyday experiences and applying the Al-Anon principles, families and friends of alcoholics can bring positive changes to their situations, whether or not the alcoholic admits the existence of a drinking problem or seeks help.
Alateen, a part of the Al-Anon Family Groups, is a fellowship of young people (mostly teenagers) whose lives have been affected by someone else’s drinking, whether they are in your life drinking or not. By attending Alateen, teenagers meet other teenagers with similar situations. Alateen is not a religious program, and there are no fees or dues to belong to it.
There are many treatment options in South Dakota. Emily’s Hope funds treatment scholarships at the Avera Addiction Care Center in Sioux Falls.
Emily’s Hope is offering a support group in Sioux Falls, SD for adults who have lost someone close to them to fentanyl poisoning or drug overdose.
Share your loved ones’s story on our memorial website More Than Just A Number.
Emily’s Hope offers free naloxone (often called NARCAN®) at distribution boxes placed throughout South Dakota.
The Emily’s Hope PORT (Post-Overdose Response Team) program is an effort to provide holistic, evidence-based care and support to those who survive an overdose in several South Dakota counties. You can refer your loved one to the program by fillling out a brief form online.
Medications for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD) or Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) is the use of medications, alongside counseling and behavioral therapies, to treat substance use disorders.
An intervention can motivate someone to seek help for alcohol or drug misuse, compulsive eating, or other addictive behaviors. Discover when to hold one and how to make it successful.
Organizing an intervention is not easy, which is why many people look to a professional interventionist for help. These professionals plan and stage the intervention, guiding loved ones through the entire process from start to finish. When professional interventionists are involved, the chances of a successful intervention increase.
Located in the Midwest? Addiction Solutions 605 is an organization, Servicing the Midwest region to guide families, friends, and business associates through the intervention process. The goal is to urge the addicted or impaired person and their family to accept help and to get on a path to recovery.
People in the throes of addiction refuse to acknowledge they have a problem. One route people close to them can take is to have them committed into treatment involuntarily.
The South Dakota Department of Social Services put out a brochure on the steps to take in the involuntary commitment process for someone suffering from substance use disorder.
Emergency room doctors can also put an emergency commitment on a patient for up to five days, giving a family time to go through the IVC process.