TARA - Thamkrabok Assistance and Recovery Advice
About TARA Detox

TARA Detox (Thamkrabok Assistance & Recovery Advice) provides information and services to addicts considering detoxification and rehabilitation treatment at Thamkrabok Monastery, Thailand.

TARA Detox is a specialist agency offering alternative detoxification programs based on Buddhist precepts and principles as motivators for change; and promoting the Thamkrabok Monastery’s concept and practice of Sajja as a tool for relapse prevention. The program does not embrace any western model of addiction and so may be considered as unorthodox by some.

  • The program requires TOTAL ABSTINENCE i.e. "To undertake to refrain from taking intoxicating drinks and drugs which lead to carelessness".
  • The programs are TAILOR MADE to individual needs.
  • The programs include ANAPANASATI meditation ("Breathing-in, breathing-out with mindfulness").
  • The program can include ACU-DETOX (Auricular Acupuncture).
  • The program can include COUNSELLING sessions as appropriate.

TARA Detox programs are designed, from a Buddhist perspective, to tackle ALL addictions irrespective of the substance involved.

These programs prepare and support clients before, during and after a rapid herbal detoxification at the Thamkrabok Monastery in Thailand.

Background

Vince Cullen became interested in Buddhism after starting his own recovery from alcohol dependency.

He first visited the Thamkrabok Drug Treatment and Rehabilitation Centre in 1998, in his then role as Chairman of the UK charity East-West Detox.

Vince left East-West Detox in November 2002 to pursue a more personal relationship with the Thamkrabok Monastery and indeed with Buddhism.

In 2003, Vince ordained for a brief period as a monk working directly with addicts in ‘The Hey’ - the addicts treatment compound - at Thamkrabok. 

Since then he has facilitated treatment at Thamkrabok for many addicts who make their own journey to Thailand. 

He has also escorted and supported addicts, as part of organised programmes, to Thamkrabok.

Vince is registered to practice auricular acupuncture for substance misuse and stress management.

In 2006, Vince again ordained; joining the monks and nuns of Thamkrabok Monastery on the annual Tudong.

“TARA Detox is not a charity so we cannot provide a no-cost service, but we do strive to provide a low-cost alternative.”

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Clean Body With Herbs... Clean Mind With Sajja