Transitional housing is a very useful resource for recovering individuals in Brownsville who have graduated a drug treatment program but still require time to fully re-adjust to normal life and the real world. To an individual who has used drugs or alcohol to self medicate and particularly for long term addicts, the world can seem like a formidable place now that one has to get through life without the use of drugs or alcohol. Transitional housing in Brownsville offers a safe haven where those who are in this stage of the drug rehabilitation process can little by little become at ease with the process of restoring their life without drugs and on their own. While in transitional housing recovering addicts can continue to receive individualized and group counseling as needed to help them along, and also to find steady employment and housing so that they have a good chance at remaining abstinent and being to lead a productive and happy life.