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Alcohol- and drug- free houses (also known as sober living)
play an important role in supporting treatment and recovery
services in a community by helping recovering persons to
maintain an alcohol-and drug- free lifestyle. Residents
are free to organize and participate in self help meetings
or any other activity that helps them maintain sobriety.
The house or its residents do not and cannot provide any
treatment, recovery, or detoxification services, do not
have treatment or recovery plans or maintain case files,
and do not have a structured, scheduled program of alcohol
and drug education, group or individual counseling, or recovery
support sessions. Persons typically become residents of
an alcohol- and drug- free house after being in a licensed
non medical residential alcohol or other drug recovery or
treatment facility. However, participation in a licensed
facility is not necessarily a prerequisite for residency.
Alcohol- and drug- free houses are not required to be licensed
nor are they eligible for licensure. By definition, they
do not provide alcohol or drug recovery or treatment services
and are, therefore, not subject to regulation or oversight
by the State Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs.
What is important about these houses is that all have three
things in common. First, they make sure that a person who
is in recovery lives in a place that is free from alcohol
and drug use. Second, the residents themselves reinforce
their recovery through support with other recovering persons.
Finally, the residents are free to voluntarily pursue activities
to support their recovery, either alone or with others.
Source: CA Dept. of Alcohol and Drug Programs |
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