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Laura Millán

Laura Millan has been a social worker for 14 years. Having earned a bachelor's degree, she got her first job in Georgia. Early in her career, Ms. Millan provided counseling services for children and troubled teens. Having faced addiction in her loved one, she got anxious about the issues facing adult people. Over the years of working, Ms. Millan has helped recover hundreds of Americans. Currently, she is engaged in counseling, writing articles, and throwing light on the working in Eco Sober Houses.

E-mail: laura.millan@ecosoberhouse.com

Phone: +1 (617) 982-1790

Sober Houses: What is a Halfway House

A halfway house appeared back in the 19th century when a belief that offenders should be given a punishment that fits their wrongdoings to deter them from repeating their criminal actions began to change. The society put in more effort to understand the thinking of criminals and help them become law-abiding, healthy, and productive members of society once again. Nowadays, the halfway house, also often simply called a sober house, is a center for helping former drug addicts, prisoners, mental health patients, or others to adjust to life in general society. These are publicly or privately operated facilities staffed by

April 28, 2020

What is a Sober Living House?

Over 90 percent of people that go through alcohol and drug addiction treatment relapse within the first year. After people discharge from treatment, they need to learn new lifestyle habits. They learn these new habits by living in a sober living home. They need a different environment because if they go back to the same environment, they were in prior to the treatment, they will end up back in treatment. The only way people are going to change their old ways is if they live in a new environment with accountability, structure, support, community, and purpose. People that completed the

April 28, 2020