About this Recovery House
The Margaret A. Stutzman Addiction Treatment Center is a recovery residence in Buffalo, New York, the seat of Erie County, on Forest Avenue. The state's Office of Addiction Services and Supports operates it directly, with thirty-three beds for inpatient residential rehabilitation and a typical length of stay of two to six weeks.
A Buffalo Recovery Residence Run by the State
Thirty-three beds and a stay of two to six weeks describes a program built to do a specific job well: stabilize someone, treat the acute stage, and hand them off to whatever comes next with a plan already made. Residents live on site through a structured treatment day. The center's specialties include services for women and for pregnant and parenting patients, a population that often struggles to find residential treatment that will take them at all.
What the State's Recovery Homes Provide
Twelve Addiction Treatment Centers operate across New York under the state agency, and their care is individualized and recovery-focused. Medication-assisted treatment is available, psychiatric conditions occurring alongside substance use are treated in the same program, problem gambling treatment is offered, and aftercare planning happens before discharge. All the centers are tobacco-free, and they run naloxone training that anyone in the surrounding community can attend.
Recovery Housing Open Across County Lines
The centers accept New York residents regardless of county of residence. For Western New York, that means someone from Chautauqua, Cattaraugus, Niagara or Wyoming County can be admitted in Buffalo without their home county's residential capacity deciding the matter. Referrals come from hospitals, detoxification programs, courts, probation and outpatient providers.
Forest Avenue and Erie County Recovery Homes
Forest Avenue runs across Buffalo's West Side, close to Buffalo State University, Delaware Park and the Elmwood corridor, in a dense residential part of the city well served by the NFTA bus network. Buffalo is the county seat and the second-largest city in New York, so the Erie County courts, the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus, Erie Community College and most of the region's outpatient treatment sit within a few miles. A person planning discharge from a Buffalo program has more options inside the city than anywhere else in Western New York.
What to Ask Before This Buffalo Sober Living Program
With a stay measured in weeks, the handoff is the whole thing. Ask whether medication for opioid use disorder is started here and who continues it, which outpatient provider takes over, whether recovery housing is arranged before the discharge date, and how the pregnancy and parenting specialties work in practice for someone who needs them. The New York State Office of Addiction Services and Supports publishes statewide treatment and recovery resources.
