Halfway House - Alcohol and Drug Treatment Facilities - Ankeny, IA.

When a person has conquered substance abuse problem, it isn't as simple as starting life again where you left off. Returning to a stable and happy life takes time and a great deal of effort. A Halfway House, also called a Sober Living Facility, is a place where recovering individuals can live in a drug and alcohol free and healthy environment until they are able to live confidently on their own. Living in a Halfway House may be a term of a person's probation for example, or the person might make the decision to live in a Halfway House of their own will following drug or alcohol rehab. Either way, residents of a Halfway House are clean and sober and working towards doing what is necessary to repair their lives. This could mean, for example, getting one's GED, getting a job, etc.

Halfway Houses in Ankeny are operated by people who in most cases were once tenants of the house. The duration a person is permitted to stay at the Halfway House can vary, but it's commonly anywhere from a month to a couple of years. Tenants are required to comply with 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 problems that would be more effectively dealt with in an addiction treatment program.

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