Recovery residences are key for treating substance use disorder. Lawmakers fight for their existence

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A six-bedroom house on a golf course in Roswell, Ga., is not where most people would expect to find a so-called “halfway house.”

Lush landscaping along tree-lined suburban streets keeps private the pools and parking lots behind $600,000 homes like the one where Izzy Lawter lives to get peer support for her sobriety.

The 22-year-old had been struggling since childhood with undiagnosed mental illness when she left Buckhead for college in Florida, where she developed substance use disorder…

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