Halfway House - Alcohol and Drug Treatment Centers - Essex, MA.

When an individual has overcome substance abuse problem, it's not as easy as starting life again where you left off. Getting back to a successful and happy life takes time and a lot of hard work. A Halfway House, also known as a Sober Living Facility, is a setting where recovering individuals can live in a sober and positive setting until they can live confidently on their own. Living in a Halfway House may be a term of a person's parole for example, or the person may make the decision to live in a Halfway House of their own will after drug or alcohol treatment. Either way, tenants of a Halfway House are clean and sober and striving to do what is necessary to repair their lives. This could mean getting one's GED, finding employment, etc.

Halfway Houses in Essex are managed by people who in many cases were once residents of the house. The duration a person is permitted to stay at the Halfway House can vary, but it's typically anywhere from a month to a couple of years. Tenants are required to comply with drug and alcohol testing before being accepted into the house, and this testing will happen regularly to ensure there isn't any substance use in the house or substance abuse issues that would be more effectively handled in an addiction rehab facility.

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