While face-to-face meetings and remaining socially connected to others remains important during recovery, there are still plenty of virtual recovery resources to aid in your journey.
Virtual Recovery Programs
- Alcoholics Anonymous: Offers online support through video conferencing, phone conferencing, message boards, email, and chatrooms at aa-intergroup.org
- Cocaine Anonymous: Offers online support and services through email and voice meetings at ca-online.org
- LifeRing: LifeRing Secular Recovery offers online support through Zoom meetings and texting services at Lifering.org/online-meetings
- In The Rooms – Online Recovery Meetings: Provides online support through live meetings and discussion groups through desktop and mobile at intherooms.com/home/
- Marijuana Anonymous: Offers virtual support through chatrooms and meetings at ma-online.org
- Narcotics Anonymous: Offers a variety of online and Skype meeting options at NA.org/meetingsearch
- Reddit Recovery: Offers a virtual hangout and support through discussion at reddit.com/r/RedditorsInRecovery
- Refuge Recovery: Provides online meetings at refugerecovery.org/meetings
- Self-Management and Recovery Training (SMART) Recovery: Offers a global community of mutual-support groups, forums, including a chatroom and message board at smartrecovery.org
- SoberCity: Offers an online support and recovery community at SoberCityTC.org
- Sobergrid: Offers a large mobile sober community to help anyone get sober or stay sober at SoberGrid.com
- Soberistas: Provides a women-only international online recovery community through forum discussions at Soberistas.com
- Sober Recovery: Provides an online forum for those in recovery and their friends and family at SoberRecovery.com/forums/
- We Connect Recovery: Provides daily online recovery groups for those with substance use and mental illness at WeConnectRecovery.com/
- Unity Recovery + WEconnect + Alano Club: Provides daily virtual meetings for those in recovery and their family members at UnityRecovery.org
Local Help in Alabama
- Alabama Inpatient Drug Rehabs: Curated by Addiction Center. Search by city at AddictionCenter.com/Rehabs/Alabama
- Vital Alabama: Improving wellness in Alabama. Visit them at VitalAlabama.com
- Alabama Department of Mental Health: Call toll-free at 1-800-367-0955 or visit at MH.Alabama.gov
- Alabama Department of Public Health (ADPH): Call toll-free at 1-800-252-1818 or visit AlabamaPublicHealth.gov
- Recovery Organization of Support Specialists (ROSS): Call at 205-848-2112 or visit RossHelpLine4U.org
SAMHSA’s National Helpline
24/7265 Referral and Information Service in English and Spanish
Toll-Free: 1-800-662-HELP
Website: samhsa.gov/find-help/national-helpline
SAMHSA’s Disaster Distress Hotline
Toll-Free: 1-800-985-5990
SMS Text: Text TalkWithUs to 66746
Website: samhsa.gov/find-help/disaster-distress-helpline
SAMHSA Disaster Technical Assistance Center
DTAC helps states, U.S. territories, tribes, and local providers plan for and respond to behavioral health needs after a disaster.
Toll-Free: 1-800-308-3515
Website: samhsa.gov/dtac
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
Toll-Free: 1-800-273-TALK (8255)
Website: SuicidePreventionLifeline.org
Treatment Center Locator Behavioral Health
Provided by SAMHSA
Toll-Free: 1-800-662-HELP
Website: FindTreatment.gov
