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The Oxford House Model
All Oxford Houses have in common these characteristics:
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The House must be democratically self-run.
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The House membership is responsible for all household expenses.
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The House must immediately expel any member who uses alcohol or drugs. Which each house must fulfill in order to obtain and retain its Oxford House Charter.
Each House represents a remarkably effective and low cost method of preventing relapse. This was the purpose of the first Oxford House established in 1975, and this purpose is served, day by day, house after house, in each of over 1,200 houses in the United States today.
Oxford House provides primary housing for alcoholics and addicts. Our houses are placed in safe neighborhoods. We have found the success rate of alcoholics and addicts going from treatment back into their old environments to be less than 5%.
However, after spending an average of sixteen months in an Oxford House, the success rate jumps dramatically to 75% to 92%, according to studies done by De Paul University. Success is determined by continued sobriety five years from initial treatment.
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