The following two charts can help lay out the costs of living on your own or outside of recovery versus living in a sober home. If you’ve never added up what the true costs are you would probably never know that living in a sober home will not only give you a much better chance at recovering from alcohol addiction but it will cost about the same as if you lived in a house outside of recovery with three non-recovering roommates.

Once you add up the costs of living in a sober home versus living in other environments the decision is easy, especially when you consider that sober homes have a better recovery rate than most rehabilitation centers which typically cost over $20,000 a month.

Once the acute phase of rehabilitation, consisting of detoxification that is usually followed up with up to a month of intensive counseling and behavioral modification therapy, has passed, recovering alcoholics often seek alcohol rehabilitation aftercare programs to ensure that they continue on the road to permanent recovery. Some alcohol treatment aftercare programs consist of additional residential therapy, but extended stays in residential therapeutic settings are not always practical for recovering addicts.

“Sober living” facilities, in which patients who have successfully completed intensive residential alcohol rehabilitation programs live together in a supervised environment that combines compliance monitoring with regular counseling sessions, are practical only for patients who do not have family responsibilities, or other responsibilities that require them to live fully independently…