Transitional housing is a very helpful resource for recovering individuals in Hamden, NY. who have completed a drug treatment program but still need time to fully re-acclimate to regular life and the real world. For a person who has abused drugs and alcohol to self medicate and especially for long term addicts, the world can seem like a formidable place now that he or she has to endure life without alcohol or drugs. Transitional housing in Hamden, New York offers a safe haven where those who are in this stage of the drug rehab experience can slowly become comfortable with the process of rebuilding their life without drugs and on their own. While in transitional housing recovering addicts can continue to participate in individualized and group counseling as needed to help them along, and also to obtain stable employment and housing so that they have a good chance at remaining abstinent and being to lead a fruitful and happy life.