I Lived In The Sober House Where Presley Gerber Died. It Didn't Keep Me Safe Either
Summary
Aubree Nichols recounts her stay at Resolutions Living, a sober house in Santa Monica, where she says weak medication controls and limited clinical oversight contributed to unsafe conditions during her recovery. She says Presley Gerber died at the house 14 days after she posted a critical review; police suspected an overdose, but the medical examiner had not determined the cause pending toxicology.Key Facts
- Nichols says she lived at Resolutions Living for three months and relapsed in December.
- She describes the facility as a supportive living house with a 10 p.m. curfew, rather than a locked treatment facility.
- Nichols says staff unlocked her medication cabinet at night when she asked, without asking why she needed the medications.
- She says she brought in a prescription sleeping pill from an outside psychiatrist, and the house did not question its source.
- Nichols says the facility psychiatrist prescribed her two additional sleeping medications without checking her existing prescriptions in California's CURES database.
- She says medication side effects left her severely drowsy and caused her to hit her head and bleed.
- Nichols says the facility had cameras and conducted nightly medication audits, but staff did not address her declining pill count.
- The article says police suspected an overdose in Gerber's death, while the medical examiner deferred the cause pending toxicology results.
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