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Nearly 70 million Americans face challenges with finding viable housing for their particular situations.
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- Purchasing a home
- Obtaining applicable certification to help the nation’s most vulnerable
- Essential aspects to make housing a reality for those who are unable to do so.
The concept can be complicated without the proper training. Students can learn about government funding, tax exemptions and so much more by visiting www.SharedHousingAcademy.com.
WHAT IS SOBRIETY? HOW DOES A PERSON OBTAIN IT?
Sobriety is the state of being sober. An individual in a coherent state of mind with control over their body and decisions is considered sober-minded.
Unfortunately, for many Americans, sobriety is not a foregone reality.
Their days are often in a stupor.
The pain and anguish of life have caused them to seek relief in an unhealthy way. Once cemented as a habit, many Americans on their own are unable to break free to find relief.
The cost of alcoholism, prescription drug abuse, or even illicit drug use is far more than anyone can pay:
- Money: life savings, investment accounts, college savings.
- Personal assets: a home, car(s), jewelry, heirlooms
- Relationships: parents, spouses, children, friends
- Health: sometimes irreparable damage is done to the body
The hope is that the inappropriate means of dulling pain becomes too much to bear for many Americans, and sobriety is eventually seen as the solution.
The choice for sobriety is a crucial decision that enables proper rehabilitation, and safe housing to be the difference between life and death.
Shared Housing specializes in Sobriety Homes.
These homes are not typical group homes. They are far different and offer comfort and protection that make a resident’s process to a sober life more enriching and fulfilling.
Residents of a sobriety home pay their rent and utilities in one monthly fee. In many instances, governmental assistance is available to support addicts, especially those who have served in the Armed Forces.
Residents of a recovery home are also responsible for the complete care of the home. It is de facto their home. Residents will:
- Cook their meals
- Clean the entire home
- Maintain grounds
- Wash clothes
- Maintain clean bedrooms, including daily bed-making
It is central to recovery and reintegration because the home is supposed to be the safest place in the world for anyone.
Residents need to see their recovery home as their home.
While this might not be the case for many addicts as children, the recovery home has the potential to be the first safe place for many residents seeking recovery.
The Sobriety Home is this safe place where addicts can recover best with adequate support that understands their condition.
WHO CAN RESIDE IN A SOBRIETY HOME?
Sobriety Homes are excellent conduits of transformation from addiction to healthy living. Sobriety Homes offer residents a place to live with other struggling addicts who have committed to regaining control of their lives. The strictly enforced structure and stability are central to the successful transformation of an addict.
The following persons tend to thrive in Sobriety Homes.
- Risk of Recurrence: Those who have a high risk of relapsing into their addiction. Sobriety homes are typically in low-risk areas, where triggers are less pervasive. The atmosphere is quite different from the typical environment of many addicts. A safe concept exists regardless of socioeconomic status.
- Prior Relapses: For those who have relapsed after rehabilitation, Sobriety homes are ideal. Within the context of a home, the structure and support help an addict see what living should be as a sober person. It teaches more real-life scenarios through experience rather than theory.
- Drug Infested Environments: Many addicts cannot stay sober because some homes have their addiction of choice. Therefore, many will never recover if released to the house from which they come. It is not uncommon for many addicts to reside in the sobriety home long-term.
- Weak Sober Networks: A strong sober peer network is vital for an addict. Typically, many of an addict’s friends and associates abuse drugs or alcohol. Therefore, the sobriety home offers addicts a place to live among other sober individuals who understand the struggle of addiction.
WHAT ARE THE MOST COMMON BENEFITS OF A SOBRIETY HOME?
The addict must experience life sober throughout time as certain holidays, celebrations, and memories can trigger addiction.
Addiction often requires an extensive period of recovery.
The root of addiction takes many months to uncover and more months to develop adequate coping mechanisms.
As a base level of treatment, most facilities recommend at least 90 days before any withdrawal from the program is acceptable.
To achieve sobriety, time is critical. Addicts must learn to manage the stressors of life without relapsing.
The Most Common Benefits of a Sobriety Home Include:
- Time: Extended periods of drug or alcohol use take time to resolve. Addicts need time to understand and time to heal. Sobriety homes have space and time to offer addicts what they need to accomplish both of these goals.
- A Stronger Recovery: There is no rush for residents who are still unprepared to go home. The presence of fear in a resident is a sign of low resilience. Therefore, those persons can remain. Furthermore, If you’re not ready to go home just yet, that’s okay. You are honest about what you feel you can take on right now. Sober living gives you time to build a more robust, more resilient recovery. Lastly, some residents must secure different housing from their prior situation, and that may take time.
- True Support: Within the sobriety home, residents develop friendships that can last a lifetime. The typical pain and the standard recovery is something that knits people together emotionally. They often understand one another more than their families do.
- Transition to Life: Having lived in an actual home teaches recovering addicts how to discipline their personal lives. This discipline is essential to maintaining sobriety. The sobriety home helps you to adjust to societal living while rehabbing in the community.
THE SOLUTION TO CHRONIC RELAPSE
Overcoming addiction is a lifelong commitment. There is no conclusion to the process.
Residents without support who believe they have completed recovery often relapse shortly after. Recovering addicts must see themselves as growing and evolving daily.
Unfortunately, relapse is common and needs to be understood.
A chronic relapser has completed multiple drug detoxification and rehabilitation programs.
This person may stay sober for months or even years and suddenly relapse.
They go back to drinking or abusing drugs.
These people need an environment where their rehabilitation resembles their real life. The sobriety home is ideal.
The sobriety home teaches daily basic disciplines in an existing home. Recovering addicts live in an environment with others learning how to live an addiction-free life in a healthy, consistent way.
Many institutions struggle with helping individuals readapt to society. However, the resident of a sobriety home is not institutionalized but living in a home.
Again, residents learn how to make their domicile safe.
WHEN RELAPSE HAPPENS
While measures are in place to prevent relapse, the reality is that relapse happens. The causes of deterioration are complicated, but there are natural triggers. They include:
- Stress
- Locations of Familiarity
- Unstable Emotions
- Chronic Exposure to Drugs or Alcohol
- Celebrations
Because addiction is also a physiological condition, the rates of relapse mirror that of other chronic diseases such as:
- Hypertension
- Asthma
- Diabetes
- Depression
- Anxiety
The bias against addicts is unmerited.
No physician or family member would dare criticize a person with diabetes for uncontrolled blood sugar or hypertension.
Yet, many addicts experience poor treatment – this vile treatment is often a stressor that can cause relapse or the reason for a prolonged binge.
Addiction is an illness, a sickness that requires treatment.
Recent studies and polls throughout America have shown relapse among addicts anywhere from 35 – 60 percent.
Addicts who relapse require intense concern, and treatment should be altered from the previous treatment to enhance or increase recovery success.
The National Institute of Drug Abuse suggests that recovering addicts should be under continual medical supervision.
Sounds like diabetes, hypertension, or depression treatment.
Additionally, relapse is not a singular event. It is a series of situations or circumstances that result in relapse.
The recovering addict is stripped bare of their coping mechanisms and left with nothing but the initial substance for relief.
Remember, addicts are seeking relief.
Complete recovery happens when an individual successfully receives ongoing treatment.
The essential element of sobriety is not a mathematical formula but rather a dynamic, adaptable treatment that accompanies the recovering addict through life.
LONG-TERM REHABILITATION: THE KEY TO CHRONIC RELAPSE
While relapse is heartbreaking for the addict and their family, relapsing is more often than not a defining factor of sobriety.
In other words, addicts and their practitioners recognize what does and does not work for the addict.
It is similar to the process of an elimination treatment strategy for any other disease.
If one treatment is successful for some time, then adding a medication or increasing a dose is applied when a patient is out of compliance.
If certain aspects of the prior treatment were successful, breakthrough or relapse has occurred, and the treatment requires adjustment.
Long-term rehabilitation in a Sobriety Home is quite successful in preventing chronic relapse. Here’s why:
- Removal of guilt and shame associated with relapse. The resident is at home with others who have struggled also.
- Careful examination of the period of successful recovery and then the period leading to relapse. Not only is this information vital for therapists, but essential for the resident.
- Assisting the resident is facing negative feelings such as:
- Low Self-esteem
- Self-hatred
- Unresolved trauma, especially from childhood.
Direct alignment between treatment and triggers.
Passing ownership of sobriety from therapist to resident – this is done so that resilience can accompany ownership.
BE THE ENTREPRENEUR WITH THE ANSWER
Sobriety homes do not simply appear, nor are they established by any governmental authority.
Sobriety homes are built, renovated, owned, and operated by investors who want to make a difference in the lives of others.
Housing is a crisis in America, especially for those who are vulnerable. Addicts are some of the most exploited and vulnerable people in our population.
The Shared Housing Academy trains investors on how to establish viable, profitable, practical Sobriety homes throughout America where they are most needed.
Do you want to enhance and increase someone’s opportunity at sobriety?
Do you want to save families from division?
Consider owning a sobriety home. Communities throughout the nation are awaiting investors like you who care about helping to put lives back together.
Contact www.SharedHousingAcademy.com today and learn how to save a community one person at a time