Recovery High Schools

Recovery High Schools in the News

  • Time Magazine: “Inside the specialized ‘Recovery’ High Schools designed just for teens with addiction”, January 23, 2019
  • WOSU: “Ohio’s first recovery high school prepares to open In Columbus”, September 24, 2018
  • WBUR: “Funding complexities remain for Massachusetts drug recovery high schools”, April 9, 2018
  • Recovery Unscripted Podcast: “Studying recovery schools with Andrew Finch”, February 14, 2018
  • USA Today Network – Knox News: “Legislator pushes for recovery schools for kids struggling with substance abuse”, January 11, 2018
  • PBS Newshour: “At an innovative high school, students get support battling their addictions while they learn”, October 3, 2017
  • The Washington Post: “Opioid epidemic laws lead panel to revisit recovery schools”, September 21, 2017
  • The Washington Times: “With teens at risk of substance use disorder, activists see need for more recovery high schools”, September 21, 2017
  • U.S. News & World Report: “Lawmakers Fight for Recovery High Schools”, June 21, 2017
  • KNPR State of Nevada: “Will School For Addicted Students Work In CCSD?” June 16, 2017
  • A.P. News: “Overcoming Opioids: Special schools help teens stay clean”, April 25, 2017
  • The Christian Science Monitor: “Sober high: How ‘recovery schools’ help addicted students”, April 1, 2017
  • The Washington Post: “As opioid crisis intensifies, one Md. school system looks at a ‘recovery’ school”, March 19, 2017
  • RISE Radio: “Taking the High out of High School! A discussion about drug use, addiction, and recovery for high school students”, October 12, 2016
  • The Washington Post: “Opioid epidemic encourages states to open recovery high schools”, September 29, 2016
  • Generation Found: Documentary film, released August 30, 2016
  • The Social Work Podcast: “Recovery High Schools – Interview with Lori Holleran Steiker, Ph.D.”, August 25, 2016
  • Boston.com: ‘I’d be in a worse situation—or dead—if I weren’t here.’, August 1, 2016
  • Times Union: “N.Y., Cuomo consider addiction recovery high schools”, June 7, 2016
  • The Atlantic: “High Schools for Addicts”, May 11, 2016
  • Here is an article written in 2015 in the Huffington Post that describes recovery high schools and focuses on the Insight program in Minnesota.
  • The Oklahoman: “Vanderbilt has embraced the college recovery movement”, May 3, 2015
  • Here is an article written in 2014 that describes recovery housing for college students on New Jersey’s Rutgers Campus.
  • Here is an article written in 2014 for Substance.com that describes the recovery high school experience for some students in recovery schools in Massachusetts.
  • Pacific Standard: “Can Recovery High Schools Keep Kids Off Drugs?” May 26, 2014
  • Michael Botticelli, the Acting Director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy spoke at the 2014 graduation ceremony of Hope Academy, a recovery high school in Indianapolis. You can find the story here or watch the news coverage of the event here.
  • The Fix: “Most Sober High Schools Are Very Successful. So Why Are They Facing the Ax?” September 5, 2013
  • Minneapolis Star-Tribune: “Minnesota’s sober high schools are faltering”, May 28, 2013
  • Here is a report and video produced in July 2012 by NBC Nightly News on one recovery school in Massachusetts. It also includes information on recovery communities at some US colleges.
  • Here is an article written by Dr. Ken Winters in January 2012 suggesting that teaching self-regulation might be an effective way to influence adolescents’ drug-taking decisions.
  • Here is an article published in November of 2011 in the Star Tribune about Sobriety High, a recovery school in Minnesota, and some of the recent fiscal and enrollment challenges it and a number of other recovery schools have been facing. The Star Tribune later published an article further describing the financial challenges the school continues to face: read it here.
  • Here is an article published in November of 2011 in Boston Magazine about recovery schools in the Boston area, providing some insight into the variability among recovery schools in their philosophies and policies.