When someone has rehabilitated from a drug or alcohol addiction, it isn't as easy as starting life again where you left off. Restoring a successful and happy life takes time and a great deal of hard work. A Halfway House, a.k.a. a Sober Living Facility, is a setting where recovering individuals can live in a clean and sober and healthy environment until they can live confidently on their own. Living in a Halfway House may be a requirement of a person's probation for example, or someone could make the decision to live in a Halfway House of their own accord after drug or alcohol treatment. Either way, tenants of a Halfway House are drug and alcohol free and working towards doing what they need to do to repair their lives. This could mean, for example, getting one's GED, finding employment, etc.
Halfway Houses in Cuba are run by people who in most instances were once tenants of the house. How long an individual is allowed to remain at the Halfway House will differ, but it's commonly anywhere from a month to a couple of years. Tenants must undergo drug and alcohol testing prior to being accepted into the house, and this testing will continue intermittently to make sure there is not any substance use in the house or addiction issues that would be more effectively addressed in a substance abuse rehab program.
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