Caspar Womanplace

Caspar Womanplace is a drug and alcohol rehab treatment program for women in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that offers a transitional sober living environment. CASPAR (Cambridge And Somerville Programs for Addiction Recovery), which is part of Bay Cove Human Services, is a community-based non-profit organization that was created in 1970 in response to the growing demand for substance abuse treatment in the region.

For the 10% of the population impacted by substance use disorders at the time, there were no treatment options other than local hospital emergency departments. The early 1970s decriminalization of alcoholism in Massachusetts—a legislative movement spearheaded by CASPAR’s founders—confirmed CASPAR’s belief that persons with substance use problems need treatment, not incarceration.