Awakening Recovery - A Non-Profit Structured Recovery Home in West La

12/31/2025

In looking back at 2025, this article is a good example of how we at Awakening Recovery focus on sustained lived experience in recovery to help those with chronic and acute substance addiction through mentoring lasting behavior change, having a vital spiritual awakening and living a life based on service to others.

Notably, this research study of more than 9,000 people, showed that over 90% defined their elements of "essential recovery" as including:
- Being honest with myself
- Handling negative feelings without using drugs or alcohol
- Being able to enjoy life without drinking or using drugs like I used to

and including 3 elements of "enriched recovery" to include:
- A process of growth and development
- Reacting to life's ups and downs in a more balanced way than I used to
- Taking responsibility for the things I can change

And lastly of note in this research, 63% endorsed recovery as spiritual in nature and more than 90% endorsed recovery being about giving back, and helping other people to not drink or use drugs like they used to.

Happy New Year and may you have a blessed 2026!

In this geospatial modeling analysis done in Ohio, more than a third of opioid use disorder treatment need was outside a 15-minute drive time of an Opioid Treatment Program to access methadone trea…

12/12/2025

Big congratulations to our Graduate Rob on his new position! We are so proud of the life he has built in recovery. He is a great example of what long-term recovery can look like.

11/26/2025

Wishing everyone an attitude of gratitude this Thanksgiving❤️🦃

11/26/2025

Good article about Gratitude as is relates to long-term recovery success. We already know from our lived experience at Awakening Recovery that "an attitude of gratitude" is essential to sustainable recovery.

Gratitude is an example of a recovery tool that is grounded in experiential knowledge. A tool used across history in a myriad of mutual support communities. It evolved from indigenous recovery comm…

11/25/2025

In this article it is stated, “This case represents one of the most egregious abuses of tele-health we’ve seen,” said Christian J. Schrank of the HHS Office of Inspector General.

Prescription stimulant misuse has been a problem for a long time for adolescents being treated for ADHD who also have a predisposition to substance addiction. It starts with a legitimate diagnosis for ADHD and sometimes progresses to misuse and then escalation to street stimulants and/or opioids.

Awakening Recovery provides a safe space over a sustained period to rebuild from the ground up for those with acute and chronic substance addiction with limited or no resources. Reach out today if you need help.

"This case represents one of the most egregious abuses of telehealth we’ve seen."

11/24/2025

Join us in congratulating our Grad Riley on 2 years sober! - “Awakening Recovery was there for me when I was at my lowest. The steps, the structure of the house, and the community helped rebuild me piece by piece. The things I did daily in the house are the same things I do today to maintain my spiritual condition.” - Riley / Graduate

11/19/2025

Please help us congratulate our graduate Chelle on celebrating 2 years sober! - “I’m grateful to mark two years of recovery. I’ve learned to lean on my community instead of isolating, and my life has become simpler, more meaningful, and filled with purpose.
Sponsoring has given me the deep, genuine connection I’d always searched for, and Awakening Recovery has been the safe place where I could finally take off the masks and grow.

Today I live a full, authentic life with room to breathe, explore, and continue the spiritual growth that brings me hope and joy. Grateful for this home and the women who helped shape my path.” - Chelle/Graduate

11/11/2025

Thank You Veterans!

11/11/2025

Please help us congratulate our graduate RJ on celebrating 9 years of sobriety! - “The foundation of my recovery that I was able to build with the 12-Steps and this amazing house/community are the reasons that I’m still sober today. My sobriety is a direct result of following a path laid in front of me by a bunch of amazing men who were willing to show me a different and fulfilling way of life. 🙏🏼” - RJ/Graduate

10/18/2025

As highlighted in our previous post today, over the last year+ overdoses are being complicated and confused for professionals by legal pharmaceutical drugs like Medetomidine being illegally used to cut in with the illicit drug supply of Fentanyl and/or Xylazine to augment effects and increase the length of the high like that found in he**in, and tragically make overdose reversal drugs like Narcan less or not effective to revive someone. Additionally, it has been reported that Medetomidine can also cause hallucinations, complicating symptoms for professionals.

At Awakening Recovery our holistic approach to long-term recovery reduces the chances of returning to drug use by helping residents build a lasting foundation in their recovery over a year+ period of time in our abstinence based recovery housing solution. If you need help please reach out to us today.

The sedative is considered remarkably safe in clinical settings, but on the street – at unknown doses mixed with fentanyl and xylazine – medetomidine tells a different story.

10/18/2025

The link below highlights the problem in the U.S. that we have also found to be true locally in our resident and alumni population: "We shifted our attention from long term recovery and resiliency to the bare minimum threshold of stopping a death from one causation from one drug for one day. It seems like as a nation that our status quo ante in one of pathology and not resiliency."

We agree that the focus in the U.S. needs to move more quickly back to a focus on long-term recovery and resiliency versus the current tendency to hyper focus on emotionally charged overdose prevention. Without switching this focus it will continue to be like "Whack-A-Mole" with new illicit drugs flooding our streets annually.

Awakening Recovery provides a long-term and resiliency building approach to sustainable recovery for those with acute and chronic substance addiction. Reach out to us today if you need help.

“The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence” ― T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets The New Recovery Advocacy Movement got off the ground in America …

10/16/2025

Alcohol-induced deaths increased by 89% from 1999 to 2024, peaking in 2021. These deaths rose by 255% among women aged 25 to 34 years and by 188% among men aged 25 to 34 years.

The majority of our residents at our women's house and men's house who come to us with no resources fall into the age range highlighted in this article. We provide a dynamic sustainable recovery housing solution ideal for those struggling with chronic and acute alcoholism. Call us today if you need help.

Alcohol-induced deaths nearly doubled in the United States from 1999 to 2024, a new analysis published in PLOS Global Public Health showed.The data show a need for “targeted prevention and treatment efforts,” especially for certain demographics that experienced disproportionally large in...