Transitional housing is a very beneficial resource for people in Winston Salem, North Carolina who have graduated a drug or alcohol treatment program but still require time to completely re-adjust to normal life and the real world. For a person who has used drugs or alcohol to self medicate and especially for long term addicts, the world can seem like a daunting place now that one has to get through life without alcohol or drugs. Transitional housing in Winston Salem supplies a safe atmosphere where those who are in this stage of the drug rehabilitation process can slowly become at ease with the process of rebuilding 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 good chance at remaining abstinent and being to lead a successful and happy life.