Awakening Recovery

Lifesaving 12-Step Peer Mentoring Recovery Homes

Structured Men's and Women's Recovery Homes in Los Angeles

Our nonprofit drug free recovery homes in Los Angeles serve the most vulnerable with chronic and acute substance addiction. Our residents seek a life-saving, transformative and sustainable recovery approach in a gender specific collaborative living environment based on finding a spiritual awakening through the 12-Steps, combined with fostering lasting behavior change through high impact peer mentoring from our fellow residents, and our alumni support community.

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Great balanced article in Psyhchology Today. We hope the public policy pendulum continues to shift back more towards the middle where abstinence based recovery isn't so marginalized and stigmatized, even as we continue to honor and value efforts to reduce overdose deaths. Awakening Recovery offers a lifesaving path to long-term recovery for those seeking an abstinence based recovery housing solution, especially for those without resources. Call us today if you need help. It states in part, "Sure, several of Kennedy’s public health stances are vexing, but advocating for abstinence isn’t one of them. Treatment isn’t a zero-sum game." and "Perhaps even more troubling is the difficulty users face if and when they try to quit Suboxone to pursue full abstinence. Buprenorphine is a highly addictive and long-acting opioid, and all long-acting opioids have correspondingly long withdrawal periods. Suboxone withdrawal lasts a month or more, compared with a few days for heroin and fentanyl. People who eventually detox from Suboxone therefore face a more formidable challenge than they would have if they’d immediately detoxed from heroin or fentanyl and entered treatment." and "Many materials distributed to physicians by Suboxone advocates, including drug marketers and public health institutions, state flatly that detoxing to full abstinence doesn’t work. At best, this is a half-truth. Yes, detox alone is often ineffective, but many patients succeed in kicking opioid addiction when detox is followed immediately by formal, abstinence-based treatment. This is precisely what Kennedy calls for." and finally, "Rather than pushing Suboxone or any other treatment as a single standard of care, we should be asking ourselves who's best-suited to abstinence-based recovery and who's best-suited to treatment with MOUDs. People with opioid use disorder are different from one another, and they and their families deserve transparency about the relative risks of Suboxone vs. detox and abstinence-based treatment."

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