Oregon's Department of Human Services/Addiction Services is a fully staffed and funded series of programs within the confines of Human Services. Addiction Services provides not only drug treatment and other abuse rehabilitation centers and programs, but has assistance service that can help financially.

Substance abuse is an addiction and addictions are very much like chronic diseases. All are treatable if the patient is willing to help him/herself. Oregon recognizes the difficulty of breaking addictive habits and therefore Oregon provides treatment centers staffed with therapists and former addicts who are able to help others having gone through it all themselves. Addiction Services also provides an Alcohol & Drug Treatment Directory, manuals and other learning materials for families and friends as well as for the addicts.

Recognizing your own addiction and seeking help is, to some addicts, very much like jumping off a bridge. Intervention by an addict's family or a therapist or even the family's clergy can help an addict to decide that treatment is long overdue. Oregon makes the decisions easier by offering counselors, support from sober former alcoholics or drug addicts and professionals who work solely with addictive personalities and substance abuse. From treatments centers, the next step can be a sober living home where addiction recovery is the next in rejoining the mainstream of society.