Transitional housing is a very beneficial resource for people in Emerson, IA. who have graduated a drug or alcohol rehabilitation program but still require time to completely re-adjust to normal life and the real world. For someone who has abused drugs and alcohol to self medicate and especially for long term addicts, the world can seem like a daunting place now that one has to get through life without alcohol or drugs. Transitional housing in Emerson provides a safe atmosphere where individuals who are in this stage of the drug rehab process can slowly grow to be 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.