Transitional housing is a very beneficial resource for recovering individuals in Albuquerque, NM. who have completed a drug or alcohol rehab program but still need time to completely re-acclimate to regular life and the real world. To a person who has used drugs or alcohol to self medicate and especially for long term addicts, the world can seem like a daunting place now that one has to endure life without alcohol or drugs. Transitional housing in Albuquerque supplies a safe haven where those who are in this stage of the drug rehabilitation process can slowly grow to be at ease with the process of rebuilding their life without drugs and on their own. While in transitional housing individuals can continue to receive individualized and group counseling as needed to help them along, and also to obtain steady employment and housing so that they have a good chance at remaining abstinent and being to have a productive and happy life.