Stevenson Recovery Coed Recovery Home

About this Recovery Home

Stevenson Recovery is a coed sober living home in Stevenson, Alabama, in Jackson County. It sits on County Road 85 in the far northeast corner of the state, near the Tennessee line.

A Coed Sober House on County Road 85

The house serves men and women together. Coed recovery housing is less common than single-gender housing in Alabama, and it asks something different of a resident: shared common space with people at different points in their recovery and of both genders, which some people find steadying and others find distracting. That is a question to settle honestly before applying. County Road 85 is a rural road outside the small city of Stevenson, so a resident here needs transportation arranged from the first day.

Recovery Housing Outside Alabama's Certification System

This residence does not appear on the certified members list published by the Alabama Alliance for Recovery Residences. In most states that would be a finding. In Alabama it is not, because certification is voluntary, no statute requires it, and the Department of Mental Health certifies treatment providers while publishing nothing at all about recovery residences. Many houses operating in the state carry no certification. The practical consequence is that the checks certification would perform have to be performed by the person applying. Ask for the fee schedule and the house rules in writing. Ask what happens after a relapse, and get the answer before you need it.

Stevenson and Jackson County Recovery Homes

Stevenson is a small city in the far northeast of Jackson County, near where Alabama meets Tennessee and Georgia. Scottsboro is the county seat and the place most residents go for court, for the hospital and for outpatient appointments. Chattanooga sits over the state line and pulls a good deal of the region's employment and treatment traffic with it, which matters before choosing a house here, because a resident's obligations can end up split across two states. Recovery homes in Jackson County are few and spread out, so location relative to a job and a meeting schedule does most of the work in the decision.

What to Verify Before Moving Into This Sober Living Home

An uncertified house can be an excellent house. What it lacks is an outside record, so the verification falls to the applicant. Ask who owns and operates the residence and how long it has run. Ask whether anyone lives on site overnight. Ask how the weekly fee is set, what a deposit secures, and under what conditions money comes back. Ask whether residents on prescribed medication for opioid use disorder are accepted, since a house that turns them away can cost someone a treatment plan along with a bed. Get the answers in writing. A residence that will not put them in writing has told you something.