These voluntary, short-term, homelike environments offer a safe place to rest and stabilize during times when individuals are experiencing increased stress and risk of relapse. Staffed by individuals with lived experience in addiction recovery — often Certified Peer Recovery Specialists — they provide non-clinical, community-based, substance-free support.
Stays typically last up to seven days and can help prevent unnecessary hospitalization, incarceration, or isolation. Still emerging, substance use peer respites are gradually expanding across the United States.
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Not sure where to begin? A peer recovery specialist can help you or a loved one take the next step, often free or low cost.
