AdvertisementMany 'Recovery Houses' Won't Let Residents Use Medicine To Quit OpioidsSeptember 12, 2018Nina FeldmanfacebookEmailBarb Williamson runs several sobriety houses in Pennsylvania, commercially run homes where residents support each other in their recovery from opioid addiction. Initially, she says, she saw the use of Suboxone or methadone by residents as "a crutch," and banned them. But evidence the medicines can be helpful changed her mind. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)