Cold Bore Recovery - Crown Avenue Women's Recovery House

About this Recovery House

Cold Bore Recovery – Crown Avenue is a sober house in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Cold Bore Recovery runs a women's sober living home on Crown Avenue in Scranton, Pennsylvania, in Lackawanna County, apart from the operator's two men's houses on Prospect Avenue.

A Women's Sober House on Crown Avenue

This Scranton sober living home is reserved for women, which keeps the house's rules, bathrooms and common spaces single-gender. Crown Avenue is a residential street on Scranton's East Side, set apart from the operator's Prospect Avenue properties, so women here are not sharing a building or an address with the men's houses.

Part of a Licensed Pennsylvania Recovery House

The house is licensed by the Pennsylvania Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs as a recovery house under Act 59, the same voluntary licensing standard Cold Bore Recovery carries at its other two Scranton addresses. Licensure means the house has gone through DDAP's application and inspection process on the record.

One Women's House Under a Three-House Operator

Cold Bore Recovery runs two additional men's houses on Prospect Avenue, making this Crown Avenue address the operator's only women's residence in Scranton at present. A woman moving in is joining a smaller, single-address program under an operator that also runs two houses for men.

East Side Scranton and Lackawanna County

East Side Scranton sits within a short drive of downtown, where Lackawanna County's courts, DDAP-licensed treatment providers and Geisinger's outpatient clinics are concentrated. That proximity matters for women balancing court dates, appointments and a job search in the first months of recovery.

Questions Worth Asking Before Applying

A licensed recovery house has to answer certain questions in writing: what the weekly fee includes, how a discharge decision gets made, and whether the house accepts residents on medication for opioid use disorder. Those are the right questions to bring to Cold Bore Recovery before applying to the Crown Avenue house.