Transitional housing is a very useful resource for individuals in Lopez Island who have completed a drug rehabilitation program but still need time to completely re-acclimate to regular life and the real world. For someone who has used drugs or alcohol to self medicate and particularly for long term addicts, the world can feel like a formidable place now that he or she has to endure life without the use of drugs or alcohol. Transitional housing in Lopez Island, Washington supplies a secure setting where those who are in this phase of the drug rehabilitation experience can slowly become at ease with the process of rebuilding their life without drugs and on their own. While in transitional housing recovering addicts can continue to participate in individualized and group counseling as needed to help them along, and also to obtain stable employment and housing so that they have a good chance at remaining abstinent and being to have a fruitful and happy life.