Southeastern Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence

About Southeastern Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence

The Southeastern Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence is a sober living operator in New London, Connecticut, running recovery housing across New London County alongside a full addiction treatment practice. Known throughout the region as SCADD, it works from Montauk Avenue in New London and operates detoxification, residential treatment, outpatient care and sober homes, which means its housing sits at the end of a continuum most of its residents have already traveled.

A New London Recovery Housing Provider

SCADD is the principal addiction services organization in southeastern Connecticut, and its recovery housing is one part of a larger clinical operation. That shapes what a resident gets. The organization holding the bed also holds the detox unit, the residential program and the outpatient clinic, so a placement is rarely a cold start. Staff know the person's history because the organization generated it, and a step in either direction happens inside one system instead of across three phone numbers.

Two Sober Homes in Norwich and New London

SCADD's recovery housing on the state roster consists of two residences:

• Liberty House, at 83 Washington Street in Norwich, for men.
• Shoreline House of Hope, at 38 Coit Street in New London.

Both addresses are published, which is unusual and useful. Norwich and New London sit at opposite ends of the Thames River corridor, about fifteen miles apart and connected by Southeast Area Transit buses and Route 32, so a resident placed in one is still inside the same labor market and the same provider network as one placed in the other.

Recovery Housing at the End of a Treatment Continuum

SCADD's programs are graded by intensity. Medically monitored detoxification and evaluation runs from the William M. Walsh Recovery Center on Coit Street in New London. High-intensity residential treatment runs from Lebanon Pines in Lebanon. Several low-intensity transitional residences sit between those and independent living, and the sober homes are the lightest rung, supplying an address, a sober household and peer accountability with clinical care delivered separately. Knowing that ladder exists is the practical value of choosing a provider like this: a resident who turns out to need more support has somewhere to go that already has his file.

Where This Sober Living Operator Works

The footprint is southeastern Connecticut: New London and Norwich, the two largest cities in New London County, and the corridor of towns between them. This is a distinctive labor market. The submarine base and shipyard in Groton, the hospitals in New London and Norwich, and the casinos in Ledyard and Montville hire at volume and hire people with records, and all of it is reachable on the regional bus network. For an operator, that means residents can realistically meet a work expectation. For a resident, it means the address is attached to jobs.

Certification and Connecticut Sober Houses

Connecticut licenses clinical facilities and leaves recovery residences to a voluntary standard run by CTARR, the Connecticut Alliance of Recovery Residences. Certification binds a residence to a published code of ethics, written disclosure of fees and rules before move-in, a written relapse and discharge policy, and an external complaint process. When an operator also runs licensed clinical programs, as this one does, a resident has a second avenue of accountability through the state's licensure of those services, which is worth knowing about before a complaint ever arises.

Referrals to SCADD Recovery Homes

Referrals arrive from SCADD's own programs, from hospitals, from the courts and from the state system, and both residences appear on the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services roster of Supported Recovery Housing Services providers. The questions to ask at the operator level are company questions: how long the organization has run recovery housing in the region, whether admission requires coming through one of its clinical programs, how fees and any deposit are documented, how long residents typically stay, and how a complaint escalates past the house to the organization and then to the state.