Atticus House Men's Recovery House

About this Recovery House

Atticus House is a men's sober house in Aurora, Colorado, in Arapahoe County, one of the certified recovery residences run by Aurora Sober Living. It is a transitional men's house in a city with more entry-level work than anywhere else east of Denver.

A Men's Sober Living Home Built Around Work

Transitional housing assumes residents have somewhere to be during the day. That assumption shapes everything else about a house: the hours it is quiet, how bedrooms get assigned, and what a housemate is expected to do when someone starts missing shifts. Men living here are working, in school, or in an outpatient program, and the household is organized around those schedules.

What Certification Means for This Recovery Residence

The residence is certified through ORH-CO, Colorado's approved certifying body and the state affiliate of the National Alliance for Recovery Residences. The commitments are specific and checkable: fees and rules disclosed in writing before move-in, a written policy covering relapse and discharge, a published code of ethics, and a complaint route that does not end with the house manager. Under Colorado House Bill 19-1009, certification is what allows a residence to take state referrals and funding, which is why treatment providers work from the directory.

Medication Supported Sober Housing

Medication-assisted treatment is supported across this operator's houses. A man stabilized on buprenorphine or methadone keeps his prescriber and his bed at the same time, which is the arrangement that fails most often when housing is arranged elsewhere. Colorado's Behavioral Health Administration maintains the statewide framework behind both the medication and the certification.

Jobs, Transit and Aurora Recovery Housing

Aurora holds the Anschutz Medical Campus, a large warehouse and logistics base on its eastern edge, and a retail and service economy strung along Colfax Avenue and Havana Street. RTD light rail runs the I-225 corridor and connects to the Denver Tech Center and downtown Denver. Littleton, the Arapahoe County seat, handles county court business. A man rebuilding an employment record can get to all of it without a car, and that is the single most useful thing an Aurora address gives a resident in early recovery.