Finding out that a loved one has been using and is addicted to heroin is a terrible moment for any parent, sibling or other family member. Just as tragic is the fact that many heroin addicts go through rehab after rehab without finding stable recovery. That is the reason for the rise of the many other alternatives to real recovery from heroin addiction. These programs go a certain way down the road of helping a heroin addict achieve a better life but many stop there.
There are programs in Europe, the US and Canada that provide heroin addicts with medical supervision so if they overdose on heroin, they can be stabilized. There are clean needle programs intended to halt the spread of disease through shared needles. And there are programs in Europe – and being considered elsewhere – that distribute pharmaceutical heroin to addicts who have failed at every other treatment option. Certainly the addict leads a somewhat healthier life and does not have to resort to crime to finance their drug habit but neither do they enjoy a drug-free life.
When the option of a fully drug-free life exists and can be obtained for the person needing heroin recovery, that is the greatest gift of all. At Narconon drug and alcohol rehabilitation centers on six continents around the world, seven out of ten heroin addicts (as well as those addicted to other drugs) achieve these drug-free lives after graduation.
How Does the Narconon Program Help Heroin Addicts?
The reason the program works is that there is an understanding of the factors of addiction that keep driving the addicted person back into drug use. These three factors are cravings, depression and guilt. When cravings, depression and guilt are lifted, a person has a much easer time staying drug-free for the long term.
The Narconon heroin recovery program includes an intensive sauna detoxification step that utilizes very specific nutritional supplements and moderate exercise. In this closely supervised program, each person has the chance to flush out old toxins of heroin use that have proven to be involved in the triggering of cravings. Sometimes even after years of living sober, the right circumstances can trigger those old cravings, when drug residues get activated into the bloodstream once again. But after the Narconon New Life Detoxification, those completing it say that their drug cravings are greatly reduced or gone. This is key to recovery from opiate cravings.
After this, a person seeking heroin recovery must also be helped to remedy the depression and guilt suffered by every addicted person. Every addict has done acts he or she knew were harmful, if only to themselves, and guilt results. Then just the physical fact of withdrawal from heroin can trigger severe depression. The nutritional support that starts the day a person walks into a Narconon program and the thorough life skills components address and improve both of these factors.
By the end of heroin recovery at a Narconon facility, graduates have experienced a great relief from guilt and look forward to a drug-free life with interest. There is no necessity for any of the substitute medications used by so many other programs because addiction has been overcome.
If you are seeking help for a heroin or opiate addict and want more information about the Narconon objectives and recovery program, contact the Intake Counselors today. Get all your questions answered. You will see that this is a better and more complete solution to heroin recovery.