Mixing Drugs can be Deadly
Many addicts suffer from more than one addiction. An example is alcohol and crack cocaine. Although these two drugs mix dangerously, many addicts use both to increase the feeling of euphoria. However, when alcohol and crack cocaine combine in the liver, a chemical is produced which increases the risk of death from this mixture. Toxic chemicals released can result in heart failure. Sandra was one person who was addicted to crack and alcohol. She was lucky she didn’t die.
She said, “I was addicted to alcohol and crack. I started using drugs when I was nineteen so I was using for a total of twenty-seven years of my life. And it totally ruined my life. Using drugs destroyed me. I lost my family. I couldn’t keep a job. I would get a paycheck and leave. I could never be on time. I was staying up all night. I couldn’t keep any relationships. Drugs and alcohol destroyed everything around me.”
When Sandra found Narconon Arrowhead, she had some hope that she could restore a lost life and get back her lost dreams. The Narconon drug and alcohol rehabilitation program addresses both the physical and mental dependencies on drugs and alcohol. A very important part of the program is that it does not rely on substitute drugs as a means of treatment. The drug-free withdrawal, which would follow any medical detox needed, allows the person to fully come off drugs leave all addictions behind, not replacing one with another. The sauna-based detox flushes out drug residuals which linger in the body long after a person stops using drugs.
Additionally, the recovering addict learns important information in rebuilding a life without drugs. As the final step of recovery, the participant does the Narconon Life Skills Courses which give effective knowledge and reliable tools to use in a new drug-free life. These tools are hers to use for the rest of her life. She learns how to live in the present and gains responsibility, personal values, and integrity.
Through the use of drills and exercises, the student finds she can be free of the past and exist in the present. This makes life so much more rewarding. Sandra says this was her favorite part of the program. She said, “The most effective part of the program for me was getting out of the past. I stayed in the past all the time. That part of the program woke me up. I could see things differently. I mean, it was so real to me. It changed me.”
Once through the courses, the recovering addict will be interviewed and her (or his) progress will be monitored to ensure she got everything out of it possible. Before she graduates from the Narconon program, well-trained supervisors ensure that she is really ready to go home. If not, she will stay and repeat any needed sections until she is certain she is ready to live a new drug-free life.
Upon finishing the Narconon program, Sandra said, “Finishing the Narconon program has been wonderful for me. I have my family back, I have myself back, and I have the things I’ve always strived for in my life. And I’m free! I don’t have to do drugs anymore.”
Narconon gives addicts back their lives, their families, their dreams. It is the first choice in effective drug rehab programs for lasting recovery.