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. As part of could open for men and
Institute on Drug Abuse drugs.
“We’re hoping that we the rental agreement, resi- eventually even housing
can serve women in Cot- dents are expected to per- which can accommodate
tage Grove whose children form house chores such as women with their children.
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