Transitional housing is a very useful resource for people in Portsmouth who have graduated a drug treatment program but still require time to completely re-acclimate to normal life and the real world. To 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 one has to endure life without alcohol or drugs. Transitional housing in Portsmouth, IA. offers a safe haven where individuals who are in this phase of the drug rehabilitation experience can slowly grow to be at ease with the process of rebuilding 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 find stable employment and housing so that they have a good chance at remaining abstinent and being to have a productive and happy life.