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With over 22 years Houghton House has grown from its humble beginnings as a Halfway House started by Alex Hamlyn and Russell Unterslak in 1995 to a group of treatment centres and programmes. At the time Alex had only recently moved to South Africa from London and was in the early phases of his own recovery. Over 23 years of active drug addiction Alex managed to abuse every known mind altering substance including an addiction to heroin that spanned 12 years and resulted in 12 visits to various treatment centres in London. After hitting his final rock bottom he spent sometime with his family in South Africa and fell in love with the recovery fellowship in Johannesburg. What was supposed to be a brief vacation turned out to be the beginning of his own journey of recovery and the beginning of Houghton House. This is The History Of Houghton House Drug Addiction Recovery Centre. Upon arriving in South Africa Alex quickly connected with the local NA (Narcotics Anonymous) fellowship, as well as with, fellow recoveri