Family & Home
Lighthouse project working to start addiction facility in La Crosse
La Crosse’s latest effort to help people with addiction problems is in the works.
The Lighthouse Project hopes to have a temporary home for addicts running within a couple of years.
Residents would have to qualify to stay at the “respite” house, usually for no more than a week. They would also have to be over 18 and live in Wisconsin.
The president of the Lighthouse board, Scott Mihalovic from Viterbo, points out that the facility won’t be like a shelter, where someone can show up unannounced.
Mihalovic said the aim is to help reduce the economic costs of fighting drug addiction that are borne by an entire community.
