With the current market crash, and more stakeholders than ever before in its history, cryptocurrencies like bitcoin are under the spotlight of psychologists and behavioural health practitioners. Are...

One major upside to the covid outbreak has been discovering the amount of things that we can do remotely rather than having to spend time and money doing...

I should really start this article by asserting the fairly obvious fact that the similarities far outweigh the differences when it comes to talking about men’s recovery issues...

Having run primary stage addiction treatment centres for 10 years and spending nearly 10 years in community drug services before that I can attest to the fact that...

An Alpha Sober House Client Talks About Performance Enhancing Drugs (PED’s) Growing up I always thought being a man meant muscles. Walking into the gym at 15 years...

The whole Alpha Team were rolling the other day at Team Quest (our favourite BJJ gym in Chiang Mai) when we encountered two rather good grapplers. We only...

If you are worried that a sport like Muay Thai sounds a bit too strenuous and dangerous for you, or because you’re too unfit (and frankly too worried)...

So you’re two months into treatment and you’re not quite ready to go home. You’ve heard of a thing called transitional living or extended care. In layman’s terms...

As we saw in the last blog post, detox and rehab fall under ASAM’s level 4 of care. Level 4 (residential) is the highest or most intensive level...

Those who have followed recent posts from our sober house will know that we believe in bodywork or ‘somatic experiencing’ as a crucial modality for working with addictions....

As we have explored in previous posts there are numerous modes of physical culture that can be useful for people in early recovery, whether they are staying in...

Back in February, when the world was waking up to Corona, we were, it’s fair to say, pretty worried here in Thailand. After all, Thailand is very close...

ADVICE FROM THE FOUNDER OF ALPHA SOBER LIVING IN THAILAND Running a sober house in Thailand, and having run rehabs in Chiang Mai for the last 10 years,...

When you are residing in a sober living facility, it is most likely that you will be asked to attend 12 step meetings. In fact, you might have...

At Alpha sober house we believe in focusing the body as well as the mind and ‘spirit’ in our journey to sobriety and recovery. Many addiction treatment programmes...

At Alpha Sober House we believe strongly in getting centred and grounded through some kind of breathwork or meditation practice. These are valuable tools in getting sober and...

People often ask, “are you sober if you use prescription drugs?” This is a complicated question. It depends on why you are you using them, and how you...