Adult Directory 2013
Adult Directory 2013
Adult Directory 2013
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C. Support & Self-Help Groups<br />
Below is a list of informational numbers for various free, self-help groups. Call for<br />
meeting days & times, most anonymous meetings are 12-step oriented. Some phone<br />
numbers are private listings of organization members.<br />
Support and Self-Help Groups<br />
Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) (202) 966-9115<br />
Alliance of Genetic Support (202) 966-5557<br />
Alzheimer’s Association (800) 272-3900<br />
Alzheimer’s Family Day Center (703) 204-4664<br />
American Cancer Society (301) 933-9350<br />
Cocaine Anonymous HelpLine (202) 368-0476<br />
Double Trouble to Recover<br />
Ida Mae Campbell Resource Center<br />
Isaiah House (SOME)<br />
(202) 684-7015<br />
(202) 797-8806<br />
Debtors Anonymous (12-step) (202) 643-2632<br />
Depression & Bi-Polar/Manic<br />
Depression<br />
(202) 494-8203,<br />
(410) 467-4709<br />
(301) 299-4255, (703) 354-3510<br />
Diabetes Support Group (202) 331-8303<br />
Epilepsy Support Group (410) 828-7700<br />
Foster Parent Support Group (202) 723-3000<br />
Gambler’s Anonymous (800) 522-4700<br />
HIPS (Helping Individual Prostitutes (202) 232-8150<br />
Survive)<br />
Loss and Grief (William Wendt (202) 624-0010<br />
Center)<br />
Lupus Support Group (202) 787-5380<br />
Marijuana Anonymous (800) 766-6779<br />
MADD (Mothers Against Drunk (703) 379-1135<br />
Driving)<br />
Narcotics Anonymous (800) 543-4670<br />
Nicotine Anonymous (202) 234-7837<br />
Overeaters Anonymous (301) 460-2800<br />
Pain Connection (301) 231-0008<br />
Parent’s Anonymous (202) 299-0900<br />
Sexaholics Anonymous (703) 866-6929<br />
Smoker’s Hotline (800) 784-8669<br />
Studio Downstairs (301) 588-2787 ext 1<br />
Suicide Hotline (800) SUI-CIDE (784-2433)<br />
Survivors of Homicide (202) 258-2564<br />
D. Intellectual and Physical Disabilities<br />
Impairments that generally meet the definition of disability include, but are not limited to:<br />
deafness, blindness, intellectual disability (formerly termed mental retardation), missing<br />
limbs or mobility impairments requiring the use of a wheelchair, autism, cancer, cerebral<br />
palsy diabetes, epilepsy, HIV/AIDS, multiple sclerosis, obsessive compulsive disorder<br />
and schizophrenia. The onset in adulthood of impaired intellectual or adaptive<br />
functioning due to drugs, accident, disease, mental illness, emotional disturbance, and/or<br />
concussive syndrome generally are not considered an intellectual disability. In<br />
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Community & Confinement Access Guide<br />
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