Transitional housing is a very useful resource for individuals in Lake Charles, Louisiana who have graduated a drug rehabilitation program but still require time to fully re-acclimate to regular life and the real world. For someone who has used drugs or alcohol to self medicate and especially for long term addicts, the world can seem like a formidable place now that one has to get through life without the use of drugs or alcohol. Transitional housing in Lake Charles supplies a safe haven where individuals who are in this stage of the drug rehabilitation experience can slowly grow to be comfortable with the idea of restoring their life without drugs and becoming independent. While in transitional housing recovering addicts can continue to receive individualized and group counseling as needed to help them along, and also to find stable employment and housing so that they have a strong chance at remaining abstinent and being to have a productive and happy life.