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What Social-Work Programs Help With Addiction?

Social workers have been on the front lines with the issue of addiction over the decades. From designing and implementing treatment programs, assisting the development of Alcoholic Anonymous meetings, providing counseling services and outreach programs for homeless addicts, social work also includes research and studies about the disease and the effect of their service treatments. The National Institute on Drug Abuse has funded numerous social-work programs.

  1. The Comorbidity and Addictions Center (CAC)

    • The goal of the CAC is a advance the knowledge and understanding of the interaction of mental illness, addiction and associated HIV risks. Housed at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work, the program is the first of its kind. Research centers on the analysis and evaluation of addiction and prevention programs, the costs associated with addictions and services and how this relates to services offered and their outcomes.

      Arlene Rubin Stiffman, PhD
      CAC
      Campus Box 1196
      Washington University
      One Brookings Dr.
      St. Louis, MO 63130
      314-935-8386
      http://gwbweb.wustl.edu/users/cac/

    Child Welfare, Drug Abuse and Intergenerational Risk

    • This social-welfare program is located at the School of Social Welfare at the University of Albany. The mission of the center is to research the services offered to addicted, HIV-infected parents of children in the child-welfare system. Through research and the development of collaborative partnerships with state agencies, the center aims to provide knowledge of HIV/AIDS services and substance-abuse-treatment programs and to provide better overall services and reduce the risk of intergenerational risk of addiction and HIV/AIDS.

      Philip McCallion
      School of Social Welfare
      University of Albany
      135 Western Avenue
      Albany, NY 12222
      518-442-5347
      albany.edu/ssw/research/index.html

    State Social-Work Prevention Programs

    • Many states collaborate with nonprofit agencies and community groups to provide addiction and substance-abuse-prevention programs to residents. Schoolchildren in particular benefit from early-prevention networks. The state of Oregon is an example, with an outreach program designed to reduce substance abuse and keep children focused on school and free of drug use. The program, called Oregon Partnership's Community Action to Reduce Substance Abuse, views its collaborative role as important to build youth confidence and resilience, keeping children away from drugs and addressing many behaviors that may lead to addiction.

      Oregon Partnership
      6443 SW Beaverton-Hillside Hwy, Suite 200
      Portland, OR 97221
      503-244-5211
      http://www.orpartnership.org/default.asp

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