New York State Office of Addiction Services and Supports

About New York State Office of Addiction Services and Supports

The New York State Office of Addiction Services and Supports is a sober living operator in the unusual sense that it is a state agency running its own recovery homes. Alongside regulating addiction treatment across New York, it directly operates twelve Addiction Treatment Centers, residential programs where people live on site while they are treated, spread from Long Island to the North Country.

A State Agency That Runs Its Own Recovery Homes

Most residential addiction treatment in New York is delivered by nonprofits and hospitals working under state certification. The twelve Addiction Treatment Centers are different: the agency that writes the standards is also the one holding the keys, hiring the clinicians and answering for the outcome. That arrangement gives the state a floor of residential capacity it controls directly, which is what it draws on when private and nonprofit beds run short in a region.

Recovery Housing in Every Corner of New York

The Addiction Treatment Centers covered in this directory are:

• Creedmoor Addiction Treatment Center, on Winchester Boulevard in Queens Village, twenty-six beds for adult men and women.
• Charles K. Post Addiction Treatment Center, on Crooked Hill Road in Brentwood, with inpatient rehabilitation and a community residential program on the same Suffolk County campus.
• Russell E. Blaisdell Addiction Treatment Center, on Old Orangeburg Road in Orangeburg, fifty-two beds, all male.
• Richard C. Ward Addiction Treatment Center, on Seward Avenue in Middletown, forty-eight beds for adults identifying as female.
• St. Lawrence Addiction Treatment Center, on Chimney Point Drive in Ogdensburg, forty beds.
• Margaret A. Stutzman Addiction Treatment Center, on Forest Avenue in Buffalo, thirty-three beds.
• John L. Norris Addiction Treatment Center, on South Avenue in Rochester, forty-four beds for adult men and women.

The spread is deliberate. Buffalo and Rochester cover Western New York and the Finger Lakes, Ogdensburg covers the North Country, Middletown and Orangeburg cover the lower Hudson Valley, and Queens Village and Brentwood cover New York City and Long Island.

Men's and Women's Sober Houses Within the Network

The centers are not uniform, and the differences are worth knowing before a referral is made. Orangeburg is an all-male facility. Middletown serves adults identifying as female. Rochester and Queens Village take adult men and women. Buffalo lists women and pregnant and parenting patients among its specialties. A referral source who knows the gender configuration of each site can place someone correctly the first time.

Admission to State Recovery Residences

The centers provide treatment to New York State residents regardless of their county of residence. That single policy is the most useful thing about this operator. County funding and local contracts decide a great deal of who gets a residential bed in New York and how long they wait, and a state-operated network that ignores county lines is the release valve. Referrals arrive from hospitals, detoxification programs, courts, probation departments and outpatient clinics, and admission runs through the agency's own process.

What These Recovery Residences Provide

Care across the network is individualized and recovery-focused, and the specialized services vary by site: medication-assisted treatment, problem gambling treatment, gender-specific programming, and treatment for psychiatric conditions occurring alongside substance use. Every center is tobacco-free, every one assists with aftercare planning before discharge, and all of them offer naloxone training that members of the surrounding community can attend, which extends the centers' usefulness past the people living in them.

The Agency Behind New York Sober Home Certification

This operator is also the regulator. It certifies residential treatment programs under Part 820, licenses outpatient clinics, and administers the voluntary recovery residence certification created under Part 860. New York does not require a sober home to be certified by anyone, so understanding what the agency does and does not certify is the first thing a family evaluating New York recovery housing should get straight. A guide to certification in New York covers how the state's two certifying bodies differ. The agency also maintains statewide treatment and recovery resources at its own site.