Transitional housing is a very useful resource for recovering individuals in Manchester, Massachusetts who have completed a drug rehabilitation 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 feel like a formidable place now that one has to endure life without the use of drugs or alcohol. Transitional housing in Manchester supplies a safe atmosphere where individuals who are in this phase of the drug rehab process can little by little grow to be comfortable with the process of restoring their life without drugs and becoming independent. While in transitional housing recovering addicts 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 lead a fruitful and happy life.