Leaving Behind a Life of Slavery to Addiction
The pain of addiction becomes slavery—slavery of chasing the drug every single day. The addict doesn’t care about anybody else but himself. And who suffers? The addict suffers but so do his family, friends and all who love him. Amanda experienced the misery of addiction. She knows how everyone around her was being destroyed in many ways while her life became a horrible mess.
Amanda said, “My life was in ruins. I had pretty much lost everything. My house was being taken away. My relationships with my family had deteriorated. I hadn’t talked to them in over five years. If I wasn’t on pills, I was going through withdrawal. It was just awful. I stayed in bed for weeks on end. I was in and out of emergency rooms. It was just unmanageable.”
There is a place that can give an addict back the freedom he needs and the ability to feel again. That place is Narconon. Amanda found this effective drug and alcohol rehabilitation center and changed her life. The Narconon rehab program is unlike any other kind of rehab available today. With a tolerable withdrawal, a sauna detoxification to flush out residual drugs, and training in life skills, this program provides the path to lasting recovery.
Amanda commented on the withdrawal that gave her hope in being able to leave drugs behind. “When I first got to Narconon, they took me into withdrawal. The staff were really caring. They make you feel really good about what you are doing. After about three days, I noticed I was laughing. I was done within five days. By the time I was out of withdrawal, I already felt a huge improvement from when I walked in.”
The Narconon Life Skills Courses are a key part of the program. These courses provide the knowledge and tools a recovering addict needs to be a success in his new life without drugs. Amanda said, “I started seeing a big change during the courses after the sauna program. On the Personal Values Course, I got to write down all the wrongs I had done to myself, my family and everyone around me. It made me realize how I had affected everyone else. It wasn’t just the pills affecting me and taking me down. I was taking my whole family down and my job and everybody who loved me.”
Amanda expressed her happiness since completing the program. She said that she now feels confident and can use all the tools provided so she can be successful and never use drugs again. She hadn’t felt that way in ten years. She said, “I really felt that I was just a slave to the drugs and I was never going to get out of it. Now I feel so confident and excited to get back out there and regain the trust of my family and just succeed without drugs.”
Narconon makes some big changes in the life of an addict. Thousands of addicted lives are saved using these innovative and successful methods of recovery from drug or alcohol addiction.
Amanda graduated from Narconon Arrowhead.