Halfway House - Alcohol and Drug Treatment Facilities - DHS, MD.

When someone has conquered drug or alcohol addiction, it's not as simple as starting life again where you left off. Getting back to a positive and happy life takes time and a great deal of hard work. A Halfway House, a.k.a. a Sober Living Facility, is a place where recovering individuals can live in a drug and alcohol free and positive environment until they can live confidently on their own. Living in a Halfway House may be a requirement of a person's parole for example, or the person may decide to live in a Halfway House of their own accord following drug or alcohol treatment. In either case, occupants of a Halfway House are clean and sober and working towards doing what is necessary to get their lives back on track. This could mean, for example, getting one's GED, finding a job, etc.

Halfway Houses in DHS are run by people who in many cases were once tenants of the house. The duration a person is allowed to live at the Halfway House can vary, but it's usually anywhere from a month to a couple of years. Occupants must submit to drug and alcohol testing prior to being accepted into the house, and this testing will continue randomly to ensure there is not any drug or alcohol use in the house or addiction issues that would be more effectively addressed in a substance abuse treatment facility.

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