According to the Addiction Science & Clinical Practice Journal, North America is currently in the midst of an opioid crisis that claimed nearly 70,000 lives in the US in 2018 alone. Substance abuse disorders often erode social functioning, education/vocational skills, and positive community and family ties. Thus, recovery involves rehabilitation-relearning or reestablishing healthy functioning, skills, and values as well as regaining physical and emotional health. Therapeutic communities such as sober homes are the best environment to foster this critical phase of healing.