Damascus House, Inc.

About Damascus House, Inc.

Damascus House, Inc. is a sober living operator in Baltimore, Maryland, working in the city's Brooklyn section. Baltimore City is an independent city that belongs to no Maryland county, and this operator sits at its southern edge where the Patapsco River divides it from Anne Arundel County.

A Baltimore Sober Living Operator in Brooklyn

The organization works in one of the harder parts of the state. Brooklyn and Curtis Bay grew up around the port, the industrial waterfront and the rail yards, and they have carried one of Maryland's heaviest overdose burdens for years. An operator based in that neighborhood is close to the people who need it and works with a population that has usually been through several systems already. That proximity is the operator's main asset.

Housing and Outpatient Services From One Recovery Housing Provider

Alongside its housing, the organization operates outpatient and intensive outpatient services. Keeping both under one name means a resident can hold an address and a treatment schedule that were arranged in a single conversation, and a clinician who sees the resident weekly is not guessing about where he sleeps. For a man leaving detox with no money and no transportation, that combination is often the only workable option in South Baltimore.

Where This Sober Living Operator Works

The footprint is the Ritchie Highway and Patapsco Avenue corridor at the Baltimore City and Anne Arundel County line. Ritchie Highway runs south to Brooklyn Park and Glen Burnie, and the Hanover Street and Harbor Tunnel approaches run north into the city. MTA bus service covers the corridor, so residents can hold work in either jurisdiction without a car. Anyone searching for recovery housing in South Baltimore is working from a short list, and a locally based provider with services attached carries weight on it.

Questions to Ask This Recovery Housing Provider

Applications go directly to the organization. The operator-level questions differ from the house-level ones: how long it has housed residents in South Baltimore, whether it accepts referrals from treatment providers and the Baltimore City Health Department, how fees and deposits are documented and returned, how its housing and outpatient programs are billed relative to each other, and how a complaint is escalated past the house. Maryland's Behavioral Health Administration lists statewide treatment resources.