Transitional housing is a very beneficial resource for people in Portland, Maine who have graduated a drug treatment program but still need time to fully re-adjust to normal life and the real world. To an individual who has abused drugs and alcohol to self medicate and especially for long term addicts, the world can feel like a daunting place now that one has to endure life without alcohol or drugs. Transitional housing in Portland, ME. provides a secure setting where individuals who are in this stage of the drug rehabilitation experience can little by little grow to be comfortable with the process of restoring their life without drugs and on their own. While in transitional housing those in recovery can continue to receive individualized and group counseling as needed to help them along, and also to find stable employment and housing so that they have a good chance at remaining abstinent and being to have a successful and happy life.