My experience with drugs and severe addiction to cocaine specifically, was seriously harmful to me in almost every way except that it taught me about the person I didn’t want to be. It was only once I was in drug rehab recovery that I realised this and made a personal decision to never look back on what I had now left behind. My recovery is the reason that I will even take another glance at a world of narcotics. If it wasn’t for Houghton House then I would have never realised this.

Houghton House helped me and many others in my position with our problems and did so in a very personal and meaningful way, where every need you might have was taken care of in such a special way. Finding out exactly what you were doing to ruin your life was one of the hardest things that I have had to do but at Houghton House they ensured that I understood properly. The realisation of how much harm I was causing to myself and others set me right and I could now follow my goals and live the life that I have always wanted to live, a life that I love. The staff of Houghton House encouraged and supported me every step of the way and seemed to understand what I was going through, as if they once were in my shoes. This sense of personal empathy gave me just what I needed to realise that I’m not in this alone and that there are people who care about me.