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

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...

10/14/2025

Stimulant overdose deaths have near doubled over 5 years per the below article in Psychology Today.

"Although most overdose deaths involve opioids, 182,502 persons died of overdoses involving stimulants (with or without other drugs) in the United States during January 2021–June 2024, accounting for 59% of all overdose deaths. Co***ne is a top 3 cause of overdose death today."

Our year+ long dynamic abstinence based recovery housing solution helps those with chronic and acute stimulant addiction find sustainable recovery. If you need help, please reach out to us today!

If you want support our vital work for those with no resources that are our community's most vulnerable please visit our website: https://awakeningrecovery.org/donate-now/

It takes a village!

https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/addiction-outlook/202510/cocaine-is-back

Empowering Lives: Join Our Mission to Help Save Lives through Connection and Community – Celebrating 8 Years Of Service To The Recovery Community

10/08/2025

Check out our co-founding Exec. Dir. David Vandervelde's latest blog post about the intersection between 12-Step recovery and AI alignment so we can all work together for a better future.

Our co-founding Exec. Dir. David Vandervelde discusses the intersection of his own recovery journey through the 12-Steps, connection and community with current trends for AI alignment so that we can all work together for a better future.

10/01/2025

This research article shows what we have also witnessed in the recovery community, that alcohol unduced deaths rose sharply at the onset of COVID in 2020 and remain elevated compared to pre-pandemic rates.

At Awakening Recovery we focus on dynamic sustainable recovery from acute and chronic substance addiction through our unique year+ 12-Step abstinence and peer mentoring based recovery housing solution. Reach out to us today if you need help!

We analyze alcohol-induced deaths by race, gender, age and geography on a yearly (1999–2024) and monthly (2018–2024) basis, using data from the National Vital Statistics System. Crude rates for alcohol-induced deaths increased by 89% from 1999 to 2024. The largest relative increase occurred amon...

09/25/2025

Thank you. We begin always with gratitude -- gratitude for you.

In our Summer/Fall Newsletter, we’re highlighting an amazing family who like you generously fuels Awakening Recovery’s work, making long-term recovery available to those most vulnerable.

I hope you’ll enjoying getting to know about one of our foundational supporters who have been with us from our inception, a new addition to our Board in the last year, renewed public support from our LA County Supervisor, and meeting a few of our AR graduates whose lives together you have profoundly changed.

With unending gratitude, please read on (below) and enjoy seeing what YOU make possible!

Read news from Los Angeles's lifesaving 12-step peer mentoring recovery home with a gender specific location for men and women.

09/24/2025

Thanks to for hosting the Voices Of Recovery town hall in WeHo where our Director Greg Gelber was on the panel to help our community understand recovery resources and options in WeHo! We were grateful for the opportunity to help our recovery community.