Halfway House - Alcohol and Drug Rehabilitation Centers - Essex, IL.

When an individual has conquered substance abuse problem, it's not as easy as picking up where you left off. Getting back to a stable and happy life takes time and a great deal of hard work. A Halfway House, also called a Sober Living Facility, is a place where recovering individuals can live in a sober and positive environment until they are able to live stably on their own. Living in a Halfway House may be a term of a person's probation or parole for example, or someone might decide to live in a Halfway House of their own will following drug or alcohol treatment. In either case, residents of a Halfway House are clean and working towards doing what they need to do to get their lives back on track. This could mean, for example, finishing school, finding employment, etc.

Halfway Houses in Essex are operated by individuals who in many cases were once tenants of the house. The duration an individual is permitted to remain at the Halfway House can vary, but it's usually anywhere from a month to a couple of years. Residents must undergo alcohol and drug testing before entering the house, and this testing will happen intermittently to be certain there isn't any drug use in the house or addiction problems that would be more adequately dealt with in a substance abuse treatment facility.

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