The Pocket Men's Recovery House

About this Recovery House

The Pocket is a men's sober living home on Sugar Hill Road in Union Dale, Pennsylvania, a small borough in Susquehanna County. It is licensed by the Pennsylvania Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs as a recovery house under Act 59, and it is operated by CMGT Holdings.

A Men's Sober House in Rural Susquehanna County

This sober house in Union Dale serves men in recovery in one of the more rural corners of northeastern Pennsylvania. Susquehanna County is sparsely populated, and a recovery house here suits someone who wants distance from the environment where their addiction took hold rather than a downtown address with a bus line at the corner. Sugar Hill Road sits outside the borough's small commercial center, and residents here typically rely on the house or a housemate for transportation rather than public transit.

What a DDAP License Confirms About This Sober House

Pennsylvania licensure of a recovery house is voluntary, and CMGT Holdings has chosen to carry it for The Pocket. That means the property has passed a Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs inspection and the operator accepts state oversight of how the house is run, which is the one fact a family from outside the area can verify before a resident moves in.

Recovery Housing for Northeastern Pennsylvania

Union Dale sits near the Susquehanna and Wayne county line, roughly midway between Scranton and Binghamton, New York, and men leaving treatment in either metro area sometimes land in the smaller towns between them. A licensed house in Union Dale gives that population an option outside the two cities, closer to family or to a job that does not require a long commute.

Applying to The Pocket in Union Dale

Applications for The Pocket go through CMGT Holdings. Anyone considering the house should ask directly about the weekly cost, whether a house manager lives on site, and how the operator handles a relapse, since none of that is published and a licensed operator should be able to answer all three without hesitation.