Hero House - Women's House Women's Recovery House

About this Recovery House

Hero House is a women's recovery residence on Turley Street in Madison, West Virginia, the seat of Boone County. Eight women live here at $400 a month under Level 2 certification from the West Virginia Alliance of Recovery Residences.

A Women's Sober House in the Southern Coalfields

Eight beds in a county of twenty thousand people, in a region where certified women's housing is close to nonexistent. Women leaving treatment in Boone, Lincoln and Logan counties have almost no local certified option, and the alternative is relocating to Charleston or Beckley and leaving family, children and court obligations behind. Turley Street runs through Madison's residential grid near the county courthouse.

What Level 2 Certification Establishes

Level 2 describes monitored recovery housing with structured expectations, where clinical care comes from providers elsewhere. Certification obliges the residence to disclose fees and rules in writing before move-in, keep a written relapse and discharge policy, follow a published code of ethics, and accept complaints reviewed outside the house. In a rural county, an external complaint route is the one form of oversight that does not depend on knowing the right person locally.

Medication-Assisted Recovery for Women in Boone County

Sublocade, Vivitrol and Brixadi are accepted. Long-acting injectables matter more in the coalfields than anywhere else in the state, because a daily trip to a dosing clinic is not realistic for someone without a car in a county with no public transit.

Madison, Danville and Boone County

Madison is the county seat, sitting on the Little Coal River beside Danville on the Route 119 corridor between Charleston and Logan. The county courthouse and the local clinics are here; the nearest hospitals and the family court traffic run north to Charleston, about forty minutes away. Boone County has lost most of its mining employment over two decades and carries overdose rates among the highest in the country, which is the context for two certified houses in a town this size.