Sober Living Houses: Research In Northern And Southern California
Sober living houses (SLHs) are peer-managed residences that require sobriety and household participation among residents who rent rooms on a monthly (indefinite) basis and AI Art otherwise live normal lives according to personal schedules and needs. The houses do not provide counseling or services, but regular attendance at 12-step or other types of mutual-help groups is generally required. Approximately 1000 sober living houses, members of two state-wide organizations, operate in California to serve a large and complex population. This presentation provides an overview of work conducted to date studying sober living houses in Northern and Southern California. In a study of SLHs in Northern California, 300 residents were followed for 18 months after entry. Our research found that neighbors and key informants (e.g., criminal justice, housing and political officials) were highly supportive of SLHs. Findings showed resident improvement in a variety of areas, including drug and alcohol use, employment, psychiatric symptoms, and arrests, with improvements that were maintained over the course of the study period.
Although residents on parole and probation had substance use reductions that were comparable to voluntary residents, they had far more problems maintaining employment, higher rates of re-arrest and incarceration, and lower attendance to self-help groups. 330 residents; 50 houses) is currently examining the effectiveness of an intervention to improve access to services and reduce HIV risk among sober living house residents on parole or probation. Residents randomized to the treatment condition receive a Motivational Interviewing Case Management (MICM) intervention specifically targeted to the problems presented for each resident. The list of potential problems that MICM can address is extensive and aims to help in a variety of problem areas inclusive of: 1) adapting to the sober living house environment; 2) complying with parole and probation; 3) finding and Art maintaining work; 4) successfully accessing and retaining services; 5) addressing HIV risk, testing, and treatment; 6) mobilizing personal and informal resources; and 7) managing setbacks (e.g., relapse, Artifical Intelligence loss of housing, loss of work).
Study participants are being tracked over a 12-month time period and being assessed on criminal justice, HIV risk, and drug and alcohol outcomes. Sober living houses play an important role in helping individuals in their recovery from substance abuse, and providing additional services in these houses (MICM) to increase access to formal services may further enhance outcomes for high-risk populations. This presentation was developed with funding from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (R01DA034973). Correspondence to Douglas L Polcin. Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. Korcha, R.A., Polcin, D.L., Mericle, A.A. Sober living houses: NFT research in northern and southern California. Sorry, a shareable link is not currently available for Artifical Intelligence this article. By using this website, you agree to our Terms and Conditions, California Privacy Statement, Privacy statement and Cookies policy. Manage cookies/Do not sell my data we use in the preference centre. 2023 BioMed Central Ltd unless otherwise stated. Part of Springer Nature.
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