Substance Use Disorder and Homelessness Initiatives (SUDHI) Office

Our Post-Overdose Outreach Program provides comprehensive education, navigation, and support to individuals and families who’ve recently experienced a drug-related overdose. Our harm reduction specialists, outreach workers, and public health team members visit locations where a suspected drug-related overdose may have occurred and provide harm reduction education, overdose prevention training, and harm reduction kit distribution.

Harm Reduction kits include Narcan doses, disposable CPR masks, fentanyl test strips, and helpful resources. If you, your family, or your business is interested in receiving education on Narcan, please contact our office at 781-629-4158. Click here for more information about opioid overdose data and other statistics at the state and local level.

Our SUDHI Office does weekly street outreach for our unsheltered homeless population.  This includes a program to allow unsheltered individuals to access a free shower on Friday afternoons at the 437 Revere Street Office.  For any concerns or questions please call our office at 781-629-4158.

The City of Revere has been part of the Commonwealth’s Syringe Service Program since 2020.  Revere’s Syringe Service Provider is Health Innovations, Inc. Health Innovations is a community-based organization that provides access to sterile needles and syringes, facilitates safe disposal of used syringes, and provides connections to other services such as testing for hepatitis C,  HIV, and other sexually transmitted infections, overdose education, and Narcan (naloxone).  For Syringe delivery, call 774-454-6326.

Health Innovations:

Contact Info & Office Hours

437 Revere St.
Revere, MA 02151
Tuesday & Thursday 10 AM-4 PM 

(781) 805-5118 (English)
(781) 805-5431 (Spanish)
For Syringe delivery, call 774-454-6326

The SUDHI Office runs a weekly Healing Circle group at City Hall (281 Broadway) every Monday from 6:00 – 7:00pm.  The group offers a chance to connect with others in the community who are dealing with grief or loss after overdose.  Led by our SUDHI Program Manager, the Healing Circle combines the calming practice of meditation with the powerful energy healing of Reiki.  Each session aims to promote relaxation, rejuvenation and inner balance. 

The SUDHI Office is available to provide educational presentations to community organizations, businesses and other groups.  Below are some examples of our educational programing content

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Health Innovations Inc. (HI) is a non-profit community-based organization that provides nurse-driven “innovative” mobile and office-based health and human services to underserved, vulnerable populations in non-traditional settings.

Health Innovations harm reduction services include:

• HIV, Hepatitis, and sexually transmitted infection  testing
• Connection to medical/mental healthcare and  treatment for drug and alcohol disorders  Naloxone distribution
• Syringe exchange services
• Risk reduction counseling and supplies to reduce the spread of HIV and Hepatitis C infection

Contact Info & Office Hours for Health Innovations

437 Revere St.
Revere, MA 02151
Tuesday & Thursday 10 AM-4 PM 

(781) 805-5118 (English)
(781) 805-5431 (Spanish)
For Syringe delivery, call 774-454-6326

Coming Soon:  Revere’s own Harm Reduction Vending Machine.  Stay tuned for more information. 

Medicine and Prescription Disposal

Medicine drop boxes are the best way to safely dispose of unused or expired prescription and nonprescription medication. Unused or expired medications can pose a risk to children, family members, and the environment.

Prescription Dropbox Location  

Revere Police Department  
400 Revere Beach Pkwy.  
Revere, MA 02151

Syringe/Sharps Disposal

People use syringes for many health care conditions at home, including diabetes, allergies, multiple sclerosis, and more. The safe disposal of needles, syringes, and lancets (sharps) protect residents, City workers, and the environment.

What should you do with used syringes?

• Used syringes and other sharps should always be placed in a sharps container and disposed of safely. If you do not have a sharps container, you can also place used syringes and sharps in a plastic water bottle which you can then dispose of safely.
• Bring them to a drop-off site (see list of drop-off site locations below).
• IV drug users can enroll in a Needle Exchange Program and participate in other harm reduction services.

What should you do if you find a needle outside?

Please call 311 and tell us the location of the needle or needles with as much detail as possible. Our team will find and collect the needle.

Revere Drop Off Locations

City Hall
281 Broadway
Revere, MA 02151

Revere Police Department
400 Revere Beach Pkwy.
Revere, MA 02151

MA Substance Use Helpline

The Helpline. A comprehensive and up-to-date statewide public resource for finding substance use treatment,  recovery, and problem gambling services. Helpline services are free and confidential. 

Shatterproof ATLAS. An Addiction Treatment Locator, Assessment, and  Standards Platform.

Power of Recovery

Power of Recovery is an addiction treatment center serving all of Massachusetts and provide various addiction treatment programs: Detox, Inpatient, Outpatient, Relapse, etc.  Power of Recovery provides day treatment programs, half-day treatment programs, outpatient programs, and interventions.  

Recovery on the Harbor

Recovery on the Harbor is a peer-to-peer Recovery Support Center currently offering services in-person and virtually. ROH provides a safe, judgment-free atmosphere for anyone in recovery or looking to learn about recovery.  They provide peer support, support groups, computer access, wellness activities, community resources, and nightly meetings for individuals 18+ with a minimum of 24 hours substance-free.

983 Bennington St.
Boston, MA 02128
617-874-8046
https://northsuffolk.org/services/addiction-services/recovery-support/

The Bridge Recovery Center

The Bridge Recovery Center (BRC) provides peer-to-peer recovery support for anyone 18 years old and up, using the center's volunteers and members to deliver services. Their Center offers a safe, stigma and judgment-free environment. BRC offers recovery support using volunteers and members as they pursue their own personal growth, utilizing their experiences to empower others,  connect, and become active participants in their community. 

Tel: 781-480-4937
Email: info@maldenrecovery.org

Links to Mutual Support Groups

Twelve-Step

• Alcoholics Anonymous (AA)
  https://www.aa.org/ 
• Narcotics Anonymous (NA)
  https://na.org/ 

Secular (Non-Twelve-Step)

• SMART Recovery
  https://www.smartrecovery.org/
• Women for Sobriety
  https://womenforsobriety.org/
•  LifeRing
  https://lifering.org/ 

Religious

• Celebrate Recovery
  https://www.celebraterecovery.com/
• Refuge Recovery
  https://www.refugerecovery.org/about 

Medication-Assisted Recovery Groups

• Methadone Anonymous
  http://methadone-anonymous.org/ 
• MARS Project- Medication Assisted Recovery Services  
  https://marsproject.org/ 

Family Support

• Learn to Cope https://learn2cope.org/
• Support After a Death by Overdose https://sadod.org/
• Al-Anon/Alateen http://www.al-anon
• hrrp://www.alateen.org   
• Co-Anon
  http://www.co-anon.org
• Families Anonymous
  http://www.familiesanonymous.org   
• Nar-Anon
  http://nar-anon.org

The data used for this chart is collected from Mass.gov.  It represents the number of opioid-related overdose deaths attributed to the City of Revere for reach year starting in 2016.  The blue column represents the actual number of deaths.  The arrow and orange number to the left of the column represent the percent change year over year.  A negative number represents a decrease in deaths from the previous year.  A positive number represents an increase in deaths from the previous year.