Over the past week and a half, someone has launched a significant online sabotage effort targeting this project. As of a few hours ago, this includes an Instagram account impersonating an advocacy page that is run by a member of RVA’s recovery community. These efforts are unfolding in real time, so please be extremely cautious […]
Reporting on Virginia’s sober home hot spot is a slow and tedious process. But the project is never on pause.
Four months have gone by since I posted the last big installment. For those of you who are wondering, that doesn’t mean this project is ending. It’s nowhere close. When I first started digging into Richmond’s addiction recovery industry around March/April 2022, I had no idea what I was getting myself into. Two years later, […]
There’s a new bill on the table for the 2024 session of the Virginia General Assembly that takes a small step toward oversight of recovery house operators. State Sen. Barbara Favola – a Democrat representing parts of Arlington, Fairfax, and Loudoun counties – has prefiled Senate Bill 19, which would “require recovery residences, in the […]
The next several installments will explore gaps between paper and practice in VARR-certified housing owned by people within VARR’s inner circle. Each installment will cover a different organization. The first three sections in this series adhered closely to my original drafted content. Now, the project is deviating from its original structure to incorporate new findings […]
Since I posted part 1 of this series, more than 70 people have reached out to share information about various recovery organizations and a few treatment providers, all within the greater Richmond area. The vast majority of individuals I’ve spoken with thus far have chosen not to be named on the blog. Choosing anonymity is […]
If you have a lingering question about this project, feel free to ask me anonymously on the Q&A page. I will update the page periodically with answers to questions as I receive them. Sept. 2024 update: I archived this page, as readers are no longer using it.