Transitional housing is a very useful resource for individuals in Shadyside who have graduated a drug treatment program but still need time to completely re-acclimate to normal life and the real world. For a person who has abused 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 Shadyside supplies a safe atmosphere where individuals who are in this phase of the drug rehabilitation process can little by little become at ease with the process of restoring 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 steady employment and housing so that they have a good shot at remaining abstinent and being to have a productive and happy life.