It’s easy enough to track emergency calls to state-licensed centers — everyone knows where those are. But tracking calls to sober living homes is another thing entirely.
Alcoholics Anonymous use sobriety coins representing the amount of time the member has remained sober. Rent is $175 a week or $700 a month. Folks must have a job or be looking for one. They must attend mandatory house meetings and are encouraged to attend 12 step meetings as well. “A very good group of guys that are all straight and sober,” a recent Craigslist ad said. “Including weed!”
In a delirium in 2021, Henry Lehr bolted from detox in Gratitude Lodge in Newport Beach and forced his way into a neighbor’s home. The neighbor had a gun. Lehr was 23 when he died. It would also allow local governments to require a 1,000 feet separation between sober living homes and state-licensed addiction treatment facilities. That would help prevent the “institutionalization” of neighborhoods.by Assemblymember Avelino Valencia, D-Anaheim, would acknowledge the reality that many sober homes aren’t organic collections of like-minded folks just trying to stay sober, but affiliates of lucrative treatment businesses.
“The data demonstrates the immediate need for reform from multiple perspectives,” Bucknum said. “On one hand, it further validates residents’ concerns related to safety and quality of life. On the other, it’s clear individuals in these homes who are suffering from addiction or other mental health issues need and deserve proper care in an appropriate setting — but that’s not what they are getting. Without meaningful oversight or regulation of sober living homes, everyone loses.
In Dana Point, 18 state-licensed facilities generated 42 emergency calls for service over a single year. There were disturbances, overdoses, mental health crises, evictions, welfare checks. “Unfortunately — and this does really impact the local communities — the resources we have for investigating, the length of time of these investigations, the lengthy court process and then, in the end, the short jail sentences that they receive — it encourages recidivism.”
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