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Sober living houses (SLH), more commonly called sober homes and sober living homes and more rarely sober living environments, are facilities used by people recovering from substance abuse that serve as an interim environment between rehab and mainstream society.

SLHs grew out of a need to have safe and supportive places in which people could live while they were vulnerable in early recovery.

They are primarily meant to provide housing for people who have just come out of rehab (or recovery centers) and need a place to live that is structured and supporting for those in recovery.

However, it is not necessary to come from rehab.

A twelve-step program is a set of guiding principles outlining a course of action for recovery from , compulsion, or other behavioral problems.

Originally proposed by Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) as a method of recovery from alcoholism, the Twelve Steps were first published in the 1939 book .

The method was adapted and became the foundation of other twelve-step programs.

Sobriety is the condition of not having any measurable levels or effects from alcohol.

Sobriety is also considered to be the natural state of a human being given at a birth.

A person in a state of sobriety is considered sober.

In a treatment setting, sobriety is the achieved goal of independence from consuming alcohol.

As such, sustained abstinence is a prerequisite for sobriety.

Early in abstinence, residual effects of alcohol consumption can preclude sobriety.

These effects are labeled "PAWS," or "post acute withdrawal syndrome." Someone who abstains, but has a latent desire to resume use, is not considered truly sober.

An abstainer may be subconsciously motivated to resume alcohol consumption, but for a variety of reasons, abstains (e.g. a medical or legal concern precluding use).

Sobriety has more specific meanings within specific contexts, such as the culture of many substance use recovery programs, law enforcement, and some schools of psychology.