Holidays can be a difficult time for people recovering from substance abuse. Drugs and alcohol are readily available at parties. Family tensions can increase temptation to use. It’s a great time to go to a meeting, but a hard time to find a meeting due to facilitators taking time off and the venues being closed for the holidays.
These are a few changes to the SMART Recovery meeting schedule in the New Haven area over the holidays:
- The Saturday morning meeting at the Wilson Library will move to the Children’s Center of Hamden, 1400 Whitney Avenue, Hamden, for December 22 and 29 as the library will be closed.
- The Monday night meetings on December 24 and December 31 are cancelled. The affected meetings are the Family & Friends meeting at the Children’s Center of Hamden, and the evening meeting at the American Legion in West Haven.
- There will be no Tuesday meetings on December 25 and January 1. The affected meetings are the Teen & Youth meeting at Agora (formerly the Grove), 760 Chapel Street; the evening meetings at SCSU and at the VA Healthcare System on Campbell Avenue.
In the Hartford area:
- The Tuesday 1:30 PM meeting will be held on Wednesday instead, so the December 25 meeting will be held on December 26, and the January 1 meeting moves to January 2.
If you’re uncertain whether a meeting is happening, contact the facilitator using the contact information on the SMART Recovery web site. You can look this up at https://smartrecovery.org/local and searching by town, or look at our meetings page.
If there’s no meeting happening and you need support, please visit the SMART Recovery online community at https://smartrecovery.org/community. This includes a 24 hour chat line.