Transitional housing is a very beneficial resource for recovering individuals in Oakwood, Virginia who have completed a drug treatment program but still require time to fully re-adjust to normal life and the real world. For 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 he or she has to endure life without the use of drugs or alcohol. Transitional housing in Oakwood, Virginia supplies a safe atmosphere where individuals who are in this phase of the drug rehabilitation process can slowly grow to be comfortable with the idea of rebuilding their life without drugs and becoming independent. While in transitional housing recovering addicts can continue to participate in 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 have a fruitful and happy life.