Halfway House - Drug and Alcohol Rehab Facilities - St. Paul, IA.

When a person has overcome substance abuse problem, it isn't as easy as starting life again where you left off. Getting back to a successful and happy life takes time and a great deal of hard work. A Halfway House, also called a Sober Living Facility, is an environment where recovering individuals can go where they can live in a sober and supportive setting 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 individual could 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 drug and alcohol free and striving to do what is necessary to repair their lives. This could mean finishing school, finding a job, etc.

Halfway Houses in St. Paul are run by people who in most cases were once occupants of the house. How long a person is allowed to stay at the Halfway House can vary, but it's typically anywhere from a month to a couple of years. Residents must submit to drug and alcohol testing prior to entering the house, and this testing will continue regularly to ensure there isn't any drug or alcohol use in the house or addiction issues that would be more adequately dealt with in an alcohol or drug treatment program.

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