When a person has overcome drug or alcohol addiction, it's not as easy as resuming where you left off. Returning to a positive and happy life takes time and a great deal of hard work. A Halfway House, also called a Sober Living Facility, is a place where recovering individuals can go where they 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 condition of a person's probation or parole for example, or the person may decide to live in a Halfway House of their own will after drug or alcohol treatment. In either case, tenants of a Halfway House are clean and sober and working towards doing what they need to do to get their lives back on track. This could mean, for example, getting one's GED, getting a job, etc.
Halfway Houses in Dorchester are managed by individuals who in most cases were once tenants of the house. How long an individual is permitted to remain at the Halfway House can vary, but it's usually anywhere from a month to a couple of years. Residents are required to submit to alcohol and drug testing prior to being accepted into the house, and this testing will happen intermittently to make sure there is not any drug use in the house or substance abuse issues that would be more adequately addressed in a substance abuse treatment facility.
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