Get Help/Support
SafeSpot (Massachusetts based)​
"Everyone needs a safety plan. Let us spot you when you use alone."
SafeSpot is a free and confidential virtual overdose spotting hotline. Their peer operators will ask for your location before you use. If during the course of the call you stop responding, they will get you help according to your safety plan. The vast majority of their call end without overdose. They are there just in case.
Phone: 1(800)972-0590
Website: safe-spot.me/
Email: info@massoverdosehelpline.org
Never Use Alone (National Overdose Prevention Lifeline)
Never Use Alone is a free nationwide overdose prevention, detection, crisis response, and reversal lifeline service for people who use drugs while alone. An operator will stay on the phone with you while you use, only notifying emergency services if you are in need of assistance.
Never Use Alone’s peer-run call center operators are available 24-hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. Meeting people where they are, on the other end of the line, one human connection at a time. No stigma. No judgment. Just love!
For English call: (800)484-3731
For Spanish call: (800)928-5330
Website: neverusealone.com
Syringe Service Programs Locator (NASEN)
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The North American Syringe Exchange Network (NASEN) helps locate centers and facilities that provide a range of services that include needle exchange programs, drug treatments, and health testing. Services vary by location.
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The 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline offers 24/7 call, text and chat access to trained crisis counselors who can help people experiencing suicidal, substance use, and/or mental health crisis, or any other kind of emotional distress. People can also dial 988 if they are worried about a loved one who may need crisis support.
In 2020, Congress designated the new 988 dialing code to be operated through the existing National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. This is an effort of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), which is the agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that leads public health efforts to advance the behavioral health of the nation and to improve the lives of individuals living with mental and substance use disorders, and their families.
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