Halfway House - Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Centers - Short Hills, NJ.

When an individual has conquered substance abuse problem, it's not as simple as starting life again where you left off. Restoring a stable and happy life takes time and a lot of hard work. A Halfway House, also called a Sober Living Facility, is a place where recovering individuals can live in a sober and healthy setting until they are able to live confidently on their own. Living in a Halfway House may be a term of a person's probation or parole for example, or the person might decide to live in a Halfway House of their own will after drug or alcohol treatment. In either case, occupants of a Halfway House are drug and alcohol free and striving to do what they need to do to get their lives back on track. This could mean, for example, getting one's GED, finding a job, etc.

Halfway Houses in Short Hills are operated by people who in most instances were once residents of the house. How long a person is allowed to remain at the Halfway House will differ, 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 continue frequently to be certain there isn't any drug or alcohol use in the house or substance abuse problems that would be more adequately addressed in an alcohol or drug rehabilitation program.

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