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ADDICTION: Finding refuge for recovery

 
By Ann Kelley | Published: July 28, 2008    Comment on this article Leave a comment

MIDWEST CITY — Roy Lopez tangos with a love-hate relationship with alcohol — he loves to drink but despises what it does to him.

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Lopez, 45, has alienated family members, lost jobs, been evicted from homes and wound up in a hospital detox unit. Along the way, he’s had stints of sobriety lasting as long as a year.

“I’ve been in the recovery process for about 10 1 /2 years, which is another way of saying I’ve been relapsing for about that long,” Lopez said. “The difference this time is what I’m willing to do.”

Lopez gave up his apartment in April and bunks with seven other men battling alcohol and drug addiction in an Oxford House in Moore. Oxford House homes, with 2,500 nationwide, are geared to help those battling addiction learn to live sober.

The houses are not like conventional group homes or halfway houses for addicts. Oxford House homes are more like a fraternity, without the keg parties.

They’re run democratically by the people who live there, with each person in the house getting an equal vote on who moves in and who has to go.

All expenses are shared and there are fines for those that don’t keep up with their household chores.

Best of all, the homes are nicely furnished and in good neighborhoods, said Jackson Longan, an outreach services representative for Oklahoma’s branch of Oxford House.

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