Transitional housing is a very helpful resource for recovering individuals in Norfolk who have completed a drug or alcohol treatment program but still require time to completely re-acclimate to normal life and the real world. To a person who has used drugs and alcohol to self medicate and especially for long term addicts, the world can seem like a formidable place now that one has to endure life without alcohol or drugs. Transitional housing in Norfolk supplies a secure setting where individuals who are in this phase of the drug rehabilitation process can slowly become at ease with the process of restoring their life without drugs and on their own. While in transitional housing those in recovery can continue to participate in individualized and group counseling as needed to help them along, and also to find stable employment and housing so that they have a good chance at remaining abstinent and being to lead a fruitful and happy life.