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COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL | WEDNESDAY, MAY 29, 2019 | 9A Safe from A1 had been in Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) for many years, passed away. Booher’s family, aware of the group’s mission, happi- ly agreed to let Safe Haven use his property. “They understood what it was about,” Anderson said. Current plans are to see the Booher House’s fi rst residents sometime in June. For Anderson, establish- ing transitional housing specifi cally for women was partially motivated by a concern for child welfare. “Since they also are usu- ally the caretaker for the children, if we serve them fi rst, that would be bet- ter for the kids,” she said. “They get their mommy back.” Safe Haven also intends on giving local Cottage Grove women priority, an important move consider- ing the tendency for envi- ronmental factors to trigger relapse. “When somebody gets out of recovery and they have to go back to where they come from, they’re going into a really toxic en- vironment and their chanc- es of staying sober or stay- ing clean are very small,” Anderson said. Alcohol and drug abuse are statistically conspicu- ous problems in Oregon. Data from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration indicate that Oregonians seek treatment for alco- hol addiction more than a rotational basis, retain a job or educational pursuit and regularly attend 12- step meetings. Stipulations will even in- clude social conduct within a certain level of decorum. Predictably, strict prohi- bitions and rules regarding drug use and testing under- lie the conditions of resi- dency as well. Because residents are re- quired to have completed a recovery program prior to signing a contract, Ander- son predicts the transition will be relatively smooth for some. “They will have prob- ably worked some of the steps and they’ll be famil- iar with the routine,” she said. Safe Haven does not place a time limit on the term “transitional,” mak- DAMIEN SHERWOOD/COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL ing the length of stay for The house at 850 E Quincy will serve as a sober-living environment for recovering women addicts to transi- a resident subject to their tion back into a healthy lifestyle. own rate of success in any other substance, and (NIDA) reported 344 over- Although men tend to that they can stay in con- moving forward. “It might take them a in 2016 Oregon had the dose deaths in Oregon that have higher rates of use tact with them,” said An- year to get stuff done,” fi fth-highest rate of alcohol same year. and dependence on illicit derson. abuse in the nation. Though the state reports drugs and alcohol, many The Booher House is Anderson said. “Especially Opioid abuse has also rates well below the nation- studies point out that wom- meant to provide some re- with the job market, they been a rising problem and al average, Oregon Health en are equally likely to spite from such challeng- may not be really success- Oregon rates refl ect a na- Authority has called the develop a substance abuse es. At $500 per month for ful in fi nding a job right off tional trend of increased situation an “opioid crisis,” disorder and may even be room, board and utilities, the bat.” While Safe Haven puts opioid addiction and mis- estimating that an average more susceptible to crav- recovering women will be use. Opioids can be found of fi ve Oregonians die each ing and relapse. afforded a nurturing envi- the fi nal pieces into place, in both prescription pain week from overdose. Unique challenges arise ronment to adjust to a so- Anderson is optimistic the house will provide a relief medications and il- Overall substance abuse for recovering female par- ber lifestyle. licit forms such as heroin remains a problem as well. ents as well, which include “Basically, we won’t much-needed addition to and non-pharmaceutical Data from authorities at being able to fi nd child have any formalized ser- the community. “I think we could fi ll up fentanyl. NIDA and the Centers for care and developing anx- vices,” Anderson said. In 2017, the U.S. Depart- Disease Control confi rm iety or depression due to “We’ll be a safe place for a hotel,” she said of Cot- ment of Health and Human that men make up the larg- child separation. them to live and a place to tage Grove’s transitional Services declared a nation- er half of total addicts and These issues become es- go to ask ‘Where can I get housing need. “And if we al public health emergency, the Center for Behavioral pecially evident for wom- this done,’ and ‘Where can made one for men, there’d be even more.” citing an estimated 130 or Health Statistics and Qual- en in cities like Cottage I get that done?’” In a year or so, Ander- more people per day dying ity states that men are more Grove, where transitional House rules also insti- from opioid-related drug likely than women to use housing options are slim or tute structure into the lives son predicts another house overdoses. The National almost all types of illicit non-existent. of the residents. 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