About this Sober House
Amaryllis House is a men's sober house in Lafayette, Louisiana, in Lafayette Parish. It stands at 110 Amaryllis Drive in the 70503 ZIP and operates as one of three houses under the St. Michael's Sober Living name in the city.
A Men's Sober House on Amaryllis Drive
Amaryllis Drive is a short residential street in south-central Lafayette, in a 70503 pocket of single-family blocks between the university district and the Camellia Boulevard commercial corridor. The house takes its name from the street, which is common in Louisiana recovery housing and useful for a resident describing where he lives to an employer or a probation officer. The location is ordinary and residential, near enough to Lafayette Transit System routes and the Johnston Street corridor that a man without a car can get to a shift and a meeting on the same day.
One of Three St. Michael's Sober Living Homes in Lafayette
Amaryllis House is the operator's men's house in the 70503 area. A second men's house sits on Paris Street in 70506, and a women's house occupies Acadian Drive nearby. That gives the operator three households in one city and gives a resident a route out of a bad fit that does not involve leaving Lafayette. Someone who needs a quieter house, or different housemates, or a different part of town closer to work, is asking one operator for a transfer instead of hunting the market again from a phone.
What Single-Gender Recovery Housing Settles
A men's house answers a set of questions before anyone asks them. Bathrooms, bedrooms and common space serve one population. House meetings address one set of problems. The relationship dynamics that complicate a mixed household in early recovery are absent, and the house rules were written for the people actually living under them. For a man out of detox or residential treatment, that narrowing is worth something. It removes a category of distraction during the months when distraction is expensive.
Sober Living in Lafayette, the Seat of Lafayette Parish
Lafayette is the parish seat and the anchor city of Acadiana in south-central Louisiana. Its scale is the point: large enough to hold the Fifteenth Judicial District Court, the Acadiana Area Human Services District, Ochsner Lafayette General, Our Lady of Lourdes, the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and South Louisiana Community College, and small enough to cross in twenty minutes. A man leaving treatment in Abbeville, Crowley, Opelousas or New Iberia will generally find that Lafayette Parish recovery housing puts him inside reach of the court date, the clinic and the job at once, which none of the surrounding towns can do.
Applying to This Lafayette Sober Living Home
Applications go through the operator. Louisiana has no licensure, registry or mandatory certification for recovery residences, and certification through the Louisiana Association of Recovery Residences is voluntary, so a prospective resident does his own verifying. Visit before signing. Ask what the weekly fee covers, what a deposit is and whether it is refundable, who is on site overnight, how many men share a bedroom, what the written relapse and discharge policy says, and whether prescribed medication for opioid use disorder is accepted.
