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.
I need help corroborating new reports of sexual harassment and body brokering across several organizations.
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.