About this Recovery House
East Nashville Sober Living - Dozier Place is a men's sober house in Nashville, Tennessee, in Davidson County, operated by A Design for Living Recovery Homes. The house sits in the 37216 ZIP code in Inglewood, on the East Nashville side of the Cumberland River, and it runs the same twelve-step program the operator uses across all eleven of its Middle Tennessee homes.
A Men's Sober Living Home on Dozier Place
Dozier Place is a short residential street off the Inglewood grid, which is what most men in early recovery are actually hoping for in an address: a quiet block, neighbors who are not in the program, and a bus line within walking distance. The house serves men only. That single restriction decides how rooms are assigned, who is in the kitchen at seven in the morning, and what a house meeting sounds like, and it is the first thing worth confirming when comparing this Nashville sober house with a coed residence.
Rooms, Space and Shared Areas in This East Nashville Sober House
The operator's East Nashville homes are new construction laid out with four bedrooms and three bathrooms, a custom kitchen, a large living room, and outdoor space that includes a front porch, a back deck and a rooftop terrace. The houses run over 2,500 square feet. Bedrooms are shared, which holds the weekly cost down and puts a housemate in the room who notices when something is off. The outdoor space is not decoration in a sober living home. It is where men go at nine at night when the house is full and the alternative is leaving.
Accountability in This Recovery Residence
Staff are on site twenty-four hours a day. Drug and alcohol testing is frequent, the house manager meets with residents weekly on life skills, and twelve-step meetings and book studies happen inside the house. Sponsorship is expected. That combination is the practical answer to the question families ask about sober living: who notices, and how fast. In a house with round-the-clock staffing and regular testing, the answer is somebody notices the same day.
Inglewood and Davidson County Recovery Housing
Inglewood is one of the older residential districts of East Nashville, north of Gallatin Pike and inside the consolidated city and county of Nashville and Davidson County. Everything a resident has to attend sits in the same jurisdiction: the criminal courts, the county health department, and the outpatient providers clustered near downtown and along the river. WeGo Public Transit runs the arterials nearby. Davidson County recovery housing is denser here than anywhere else in Middle Tennessee, so a man who has to leave one house has somewhere else to go without leaving his job or his meeting.
Applying to This Nashville Sober Living Home
Applications go through A Design for Living Recovery Homes, which is listed as a certified operator by the Tennessee Alliance of Recovery Residences. Certification obliges an operator to answer certain questions in writing, so ask them: what the weekly fee covers and what it does not, what the deposit is and when it comes back, how bedrooms are assigned, what testing looks like in practice, what happens after a relapse, and whether medication prescribed for opioid use disorder is accepted. Tennessee publishes statewide recovery residence information through the state Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services.
