Old Wistar Men's Recovery Home

About this Recovery Home

Old Wistar is a men's recovery residence on Wistar Village Drive in Henrico, Virginia, in Henrico County, certified at Level of Support 2 on Virginia's state register. True Recovery RVA operates it, and the register records the populations served as men, LGBT residents and men with co-occurring disorders.

A Men's Sober House on Wistar Village Drive

Wistar Village Drive is a short residential street in north Henrico County off Wistar Road, close to the Staples Mill corridor. The house holds a men's household under a manager, with written expectations that apply to every resident and drug screening as a condition of staying. Location does most of the practical work here: bus service, retail and warehouse employment and the region's outpatient providers are all within a few miles.

Two Certified Sober Houses on One Street

True Recovery RVA runs a second men's residence a few doors up at 7812, certified separately and at a different level of support. The two are distinct households with distinct register entries, and the operator enumerates both. For a resident, a street with two houses in the same network means a change of household without a change of address book, and it means the manager and the staff who know him are still a short walk away.

Level 2 Monitored Certification Explained

Virginia's register assigns each certified residence a level of support from one to three. Level 2 is monitored: a house manager oversees the residence, house rules are written and uniform, drug screening happens, and clinical care is obtained from providers elsewhere. The Virginia Association of Recovery Residences grants it residence by residence and binds the house to a code of ethics, written disclosure of fees and rules before move-in, and an external complaint process.

Co-Occurring Diagnoses and LGBT Residents in This Recovery Home

The register's population field names LGBT residents and co-occurring disorders for this house. Those entries answer a question a listing cannot answer with adjectives. A man taking a psychiatric medication wants to know the house will not treat the prescription as a relapse risk, and an LGBT resident in a men's house wants to know the code of ethics gets enforced by the manager. Both should ask directly, and both start from a state filing that names them.

North Henrico Recovery Housing Near Staples Mill

This pocket of Henrico County holds the densest cluster of certified recovery housing in the operator's portfolio, with residences on Staples Mill Road, Laurel Pine Drive and Dumbarton Road all nearby. Henrico County's seat is the independent city of Richmond, which is not part of the county, so residents here sit between two governments and reach both easily. Region 4 concentrates the outpatient care, hospitals and meetings a resident uses weekly.