For the person beside the person
For you, not them.
A private app for the people loving someone in addiction. Built by the one who was using.
Join 390+ families waiting. Opening soon on iOS and Android.
Who it's for
You're not the one using. You're the one who loves them.
The mom Googling at 2am. The dad who doesn't know how to protect his children from what's happening in his own home. The spouse being slowly destroyed by it. The adult child still carrying wounds from a childhood nobody helped them through. The friend at 5am who has nowhere else to go.
Almost everything out there was built for the person with the addiction. Haven was built for you.
What Haven offers
Four ways to find your footing.
Talk to Haven
A compassionate AI companion available any time, including 1am, when you don't know what to say and you don't have anyone to call. Grounded in the disease model, never preachy.
The Roadmap
A guided walk through what you're actually dealing with: addiction as a disease, what enabling really means, how to talk about treatment, how to live your own life while loving someone in addiction.
The Community
Anonymous reflections from people carrying what you're carrying. Plus small private pods of five to six people in your exact situation. Real connection without the noise.
Personal Healing
A private place to write through what you're holding, one entry at a time. Yours alone. Haven will quietly notice the months and gently surface what you wrote a long time ago when it helps.
From the founder
I was the one using. My family was the one waiting.
I have been sober seventeen years. I never went to treatment, and I promised the people who loved me I was done more times than I can count. When I finally got honest, I could see what those years had done to them. Nothing was built for them. Everything was built for me.
The parents, the partners, the adult children, the friends. They do some of the hardest emotional work this disease asks of anyone, and mostly they do it alone, at 2am, with a search bar. Haven is the place I wish they had had. Calm. Private. Grounded in what actually helps.
Joshua BlairFounder of Haven. Sober since 2009.
What Haven is not
No ads. Ever.
Haven runs on subscriptions, not your attention.
Not a therapist.
Haven is peer support, not professional treatment. It will always encourage you toward real help when needed.
Private by design.
Your conversations, your journal, your story, all yours. Never sold. Never used for advertising.
Be there when Haven opens.
One quiet email when it's ready. Nothing else.
390+ families are already waiting.
Honest answers
The questions you carry at 2am.
Answered by the one who was using, seventeen years sober.
How to Help an Addict Who Doesn't Want Help
I was the addict who didn't want help. Seventeen years sober, here's what the people who loved me actually did, and what was never their job.
Why Do Addicts Lie to the People They Love?
I was the liar. Seventeen years sober, I can tell you why I lied to my family every day, and why believing me was never your fault.
Can Love Save an Addict?
My family's love reached me. All of it landed. And it could not get me sober. Seventeen years in, here's what love actually did.
Haven at a glance
Haven is a private support app for the family members, partners, and friends of people struggling with addiction. It is not for the person using, and it is not treatment or therapy. It is opening soon on iOS and Android, free to download with an optional Plus subscription. Built in the United States by Haven App LLC, founded by Joshua Blair, sober since 2009.
In crisis right now? Call or text 988 (Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, US and Canada). If anyone is in immediate danger, call 911.