Hero House

About Hero House

Hero House is a sober living operator in Boone County, West Virginia, running two certified recovery residences in Madison and Danville. The organization holds a women's house and a men's house fifteen beds apart, at $400 a month, both certified at Level 2 by the West Virginia Alliance of Recovery Residences.

A Boone County Recovery Housing Provider

Boone County sits in the southern coalfields south of Charleston, a county of about twenty thousand people built on mining that has spent two decades losing it. Certified recovery housing rarely reaches counties like this one, and these two houses are effectively the county's certified capacity. Charleston is about forty minutes north on Route 119.

Hero House Recovery Homes

• An eight-bed women's residence on Turley Street in Madison.
• A seven-bed men's residence on Price Branch Road in Danville.

Madison is the county seat and Danville sits immediately beside it, so the two houses are a few minutes apart while remaining entirely separate households.

Men's and Women's Sober Houses in the Coalfields

Running one house for each gender in a small county is a deliberate structure. It means a couple, a pair of siblings or two friends from the same treatment program can both find certified beds close to home.

What It Costs and What Is Accepted

Both houses charge $400 a month, and both accept residents on Sublocade, Vivitrol and Brixadi. All three are long-acting injectables, which suits a rural county where a daily dosing trip is not realistic without a car.

Certification in a Rural County

Both residences hold Level 2 certification from the West Virginia Alliance of Recovery Residences, the state's affiliate of the National Alliance for Recovery Residences. Certification is issued address by address, and in rural counties where a prospective resident cannot easily visit first, that record is the only verifiable thing about a house.