When a person has conquered substance abuse problem, it isn't as simple as resuming where you left off. Returning to a successful and happy life takes time and a lot of determination. A Halfway House, also called a Sober Living Facility, is a setting where recovering individuals can live in a clean and sober and supportive setting until they can live confidently on their own. Living in a Halfway House may be a term of a person's probation for example, or the individual could decide to live in a Halfway House of their own will following drug or alcohol rehab. Either way, tenants of a Halfway House are drug and alcohol free and striving to do what is necessary to repair their lives. This could mean, for example, finishing school, getting employment, etc.
Halfway Houses in Rome are managed by individuals who in most instances were once occupants of the house. The duration an individual is permitted to live at the Halfway House can vary, but it's commonly anywhere from a month to a couple of years. Occupants must submit to drug and alcohol testing prior to entering the house, and this testing will take place frequently to be certain there is not any drug use in the house or addiction issues that would be more effectively handled in a substance abuse recovery facility.