I am writing to strongly oppose the proposed recovery house regulations in their current form. I have been a member of my Oxford house for almost 4 years and it has helped me rebuild my life from nothing to being a person I can be proud of, from building strong relationships and owning my own business. I’ve seen it countless times and can attest that the peer-run model yields the best long term recovery outcomes. While I fully support rules and standards that keep residents safe, regulations that require 24/7 staff or assumes every recovery home operates as a commercial business would prevent 186 Oxford houses from continuing to operate in Virginia. Please adjust these proposed rules to clarify that house members themselves are the resident-operators, ensuring that democratically run, self supporting peer recovery homes can continue saving lives across Virginia .