Odyssey House

Odyssey House Texas, Inc., located in Houston, Texas is a private not-for-profit organization established in 1989 to provide treatment and education to youth and families whose lives have been devastated by drugs, alcohol, and abuse. At that time, local families who had lost their children to drugs, alcohol and death identified the need for an effective and affordable program.

Odyssey House Texas was founded as a therapeutic community committed to providing comprehensive and quality services to achieve lasting changes in the values and behaviors of youth, in order to create healthy lifestyles and healthy families.

The community publishes Odyssey House journey, a bi-annual newspaper.

Odyssey House Texas is one of many Odyssey House Therapeutic communities around the world. The first Odyssey House, in East Harlem, was established by Dr. Judianne Densen Gerber, a resident psychiatrist working at Metropolitan Hospital in New York City who was dissatisfied with the practice of using drug replacement medications such as methadone as the primary therapeutic intervention.

Odyssey House Therapeutic Communities are found across the States, in Australia and New Zealand.

External links

• http://www.odysseyhousetexas.com/