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A Narconon drug treatment student wrote this message for other students and staff, as she reflected over her life this holiday season.

Last holiday season, my life was a mess.  The Easter before, I had shown up to my family’s dinner totally wasted, nodding out over my dinner plate.  As a result, I had officially been uninvited to all future holidays until I decided to clean my life up.  My dad felt bad that nobody else wanted me at Thanksgiving dinner last year, so he came and met me at a restaurant and then we went to see a movie.   I had plans to go to another dinner with another friend, but I also needed to score some dope.    I only spent a little time with my friend after getting the heroin.  I wanted to be alone in my own bathroom with my quarter ounce.

A lot has changed since then, I am no longer a slave to drug addiction.  I have been at Narconon for four months.  I haven’t been strung out and every day I wake up happy and healthy.  I’m not dope sick anymore.  I feel better than I ever have since I started using drugs.  I talk to my family all the time and they are happy that I am doing so well and am healthy.

Spending the holidays at Narconon is going to be awesome.  I look forward to spending my time with friends that I have made here.  They are also grateful that they are sober and healthy and everything we do as a group is fantastic.

I look forward to the many happy holidays that I will be spending with my family and friends in the future, because I spend this time at Narconon drug treatment.

Opiates

This success story is written by a Narconon student who came to drug treatment as an opiate abuser. Drug Addiction took over his life.  Heroin and Oxycontin had him introverted and out of touch with the world.

Now through objectives he is in communication with himself and the world.

“Today on this exercise I feel I have gained more control over my body and my brain-body coordination is better.  Using drugs had dulled my senses and often time I would feel out of touch and out of control.  I have already noticed better reflexes and better control over my movement.

When throwing a football, for example I have noticed certain points in my motion that I had forgotten about that I am able to critique.  After high school when I started using drugs, I would throw and I was convinced I had lost my abilities.  But now I am remembering things from former coaches as early as freshman year.

I am also noticing the feel of things I touch more – like the surfaces and softness or hardness of objects.  I am excited to see all the other way in which my brain and body communication will improve the quality of my life.  This has been awesome. “

Pharm Parties

There is a new type of party that kids go to these days. They are called pharm parties and they are a form of Russian roulette. The tradition of these parties is that each person that attends goes to their medicine cabinet and finds as many different types of medicines that could potentially get someone high. This could range from different cold medicines, anti-depressants, to prescription pain medications and valium. The kids call gathering the medication pharming. Everyone brings all the medications that they could find and they are then dumped into a bowl or a bucket or some other vessel and mixed all together. The kids then have a large collection of random pills without labels, without directions. After the kids mix them together then everybody gets to grab a handful of a few pills. The person often has no idea what kind of pills they are taking and what kind interactions that they may have with each other. The kids then take them and have no idea what kind experience they are in for.

Some kids probably get a pretty nice buzz. Some kids probably do not get high but may feel a little sickish. There are some kids that have overdosed from doing this and have died. The fact that this practice is becoming more and more popular is very alarming and really needs to be a wake up call to parents that the youth of America needs more in the way of drug education. It is quite shocking that these kids do not have the sense to consider that what they are doing is definitely a bad idea.

Designer Drugs

There is also another danger in the way of current drug trends. In this article Narconon reviews designer drugs as well. Designer drugs are drugs that are manufactured by a chemist in a lab some where. These drugs are often made to mimic the effects of other drugs. In some cases the chemical make-up is very similar to whatever drug the designer drug is supposed to be like, in other cases the chemistry is different but the effects are similar. Designer drugs were originally created to effect people the same way other illegal drugs would. These drugs were not illegal however because their chemical make-up was different and not outlawed.

At present, there are two main different designer drugs that are receiving a lot of attention and are used by many. The first one is an herbal blend that is sprayed with synthetic cannabinoids and is supposed to cause a feeling of euphoria that is similar to the one that is brought about by marijuana. In some ways the feelings that one gets from this drug is similar when the drug is used in small amounts. However the effects that one can get are often unpredictable because the amount of the solution that is sprayed on each batch varies. Also the amount of one chemical or another that is sprayed on each batch is unpredictable as well. There have been quite a few cases of people ending up in the emergency room from using synthetic marijuana because they started hallucinating or had arrested breathing, became delusional, or felt like they were going to die. A few people did suffer from cardiac arrest and their hearts had to be restarted by a defibrillator. The doctors and the parents had no way to know what was happening unless the teen confessed to using synthetic marijuana or Spice as it is called, because the there is no drug test that tests for it that is currently on the market because the drug has been out for so long and there are so many different chemicals that are used in each batch and because no subject has ever consented to having their urine or blood studied for the drug as of yet.

The other line of designer drugs that are popular are sold as bath salts or plant food. Most of the drugs in this line mimic the effects of cocaine or methamphetamine. They are very addictive and can have horrible side effects. People have been known to stay up for days on these drugs and have delusions and hallucinations while under the influence of them. There have been quite a few cases of people staying on the drugs for months at a time and getting to the point where they are constantly delusional and experiencing hallucinations. In many of these circumstances the people have tried to quit only to find that they still suffer hallucinations even after they have been off of the drug for long periods of time.

A few of these people have contacted Narconon International or a local Narconon center and attended the program. It has been found that when the person does the Narconon New Life Detoxification program and finished it, they no longer suffered from the hallucinations. It can only be assumed that the reason that people continue to suffer hallucinations from the drugs after they stop using them is because the drug metabolites are not quickly flushed out of the system and since Narconon’s detoxification programs aim is to help the body rid itself of these toxins and metabolites that is why it helps.

Parents need to be aware of these new dangerous drugs and drug combinations so that they can give their children the correct and needed information in regards to them. The fact that many parents are unaware of what is going on explains why kids are not given the proper warnings in regard to these dangerous and sometimes lethal combinations. Something needs to be done about this problem before it turns into an epidemic.

The next phase in drug education was quite a bit more apathetic. Public officials gave up trying to deter kids from using drugs since they felt their other efforts had been futile. They decided that the best thing to do was to give kids information on how to use drugs in “safe’ way since they felt that they were unable to stop them from using them. They felt that the next best thing was to stop kids from killing themselves while using drugs.

Although there may have been some cases where kids were prevented from killing themselves from using drugs, this method was not very good for public morale. Even if a person is using drugs is a way that may not kill them, they are still setting themselves up for addiction to these drugs. Addiction is very devastating even if the person who is addicted is not dead. Addiction changes a person’s personality into something that they are not. People who become addicted to drugs often become anti-social and their priorities change drastically. People who are addicted can get to the point where they are willing to do anything to get their next fix and they no longer care about their priorities in life. This can be very devastating to those people that are around them that care about them. Many families have felt the loss of a loved one who was at one time a good caring person, but turned into a drug obsessed desperate individual.

Once it was seen that this method was not really helping people overall, there was an opening for a different type of educational method. Narconon schools and parents saw that the new method needed to be different than any other one that had been tried before.

Narconon Drug Education

Narconon has one of the most successful drug education techniques in the world. Narconon presents the actual facts about drugs to kids in a way that they can relate to. The truth about drugs is scary enough that facts really do not need to be embellished to get through to kids that using drugs are not a good idea. Narconon has found that if one presents the serious facts about drugs in a humorous light and in social situations, kids actually take the information more seriously and decide from the information that is presented that they do not want to use drugs. Narconon does not use guilt tactics to try to make kids feel like they will be less than human if they have an interest in drug use. Narconon approaches the problem from a social angle instead, which is one that most kids who are at the age where they are going to be first exposed to drugs can relate to the most. Narconon drug education presenters also talk about the main reason that a lot of kids start using drugs is often because they feel uncomfortable in social situations and many times drugs can give them a false sense of bravado so they don’t feel as nervous in front of their peers. The presenter also goes on to explain that the good feeling that a person gets from using drugs is temporary and accomplishing long term goals will make a person feel as good and the feeling is not temporary.

Narconon drug education also goes over the dangers and risks involved with using drugs, but only the real facts are presented so that there is never any information that can later be disputed or disregarded.

Narconon Drug Education Today

Narconon as one of the leaders of drug education, stays up to date with the current drug trends in America so that their information is always valid. This is very helpful since the kind of drugs that are popular vary from year to year. Narconon discusses the risks and ill effects of all drugs, legal and illegal. Not many other drug educations programs do that and that is very unfortunate because as of late there has been a dramatic increase in the amount of prescription drugs that are being abused by our youth. There are many kids who have been ill effected by the fact that this not known by majority of the people who are in charge of distributing information to kids about drugs. Some kids do not even know that what they are doing is dangerous because they feel that prescription drugs are medicine and safe. They do not do the proper research because they do not understand that there are serious risks that are involved with using these drugs without the supervision of a doctor.

There are some parents whose children have died from overdosing on prescription medication and they did not even know that their child had used drugs. Kids have been given so much information on the dangers of drugs that are illegal and bought off the street that the use of illegal drugs is down in America today. The kids are using prescription medications or designer drugs instead. All drug education programs need to become aware of what drugs are actually being used currently so that they are better prepared to give accurate and up to date information to our kids.

Narconon ensures that information that is presented in drug education lectures is current and up to date with the times. Narconon is very effective at achieving its main three goals in regards to drug education. These goals are:

• Convince kids that are using drugs to stop, or seek treatment if they need help to stop
• Convince kids who have not tried drugs, but are not certain how they feel about the issue to make a firm decision to not use drugs is the future.
• Give kids who already made the decision that they do not want to use drugs the positive re-enforcement to stick to that decision with confidence.

Narconon drug education lectures are available for schools as well as for businesses. Contact your local Narconon center for more information today.

Parents may also become frustrated with these types of children because they do not have the energy to handle them after spending a long day at work trying to provide for their family. They go to their doctors at the recommendation of the school and the doctor gives them a quick fix answer that explains it all. The child cannot help it, the have ADD/ADHD and medication may be a good option for them.

Financial Gain

There are also some reasons for these diagnosis that are bit more menacing. For every child that is labeled with ADD/ADHD and medicated for it, a public school will receive more funding. For every parent who receives social financial benefits for their families that has a child that is medicated for ADD/ADHD or some other disorder they also receive more money. Most of these parents do not realize what they are doing to their child in exchange for extra money. Most of them probably feel that their child genuinely needs the help from a doctor and the medication that is prescribed and feel that the money that is given to them is going to benefit their whole family including the child that has the diagnosis.

The problem with many of these medications or study drugs is that they are dangerous. Most study drugs are stimulants and have the side effects of such. The side effects of long term stimulant use and abuse in children can cause the following symptoms:

• Restriction of proper growth
• Lack of appetite
• Anorexia
• Delayed puberty in some
• Vasoconstriction
• Excessive stress to the cardiovascular system
• Heart enlargement
• Addiction
• Stroke
• Heart attack
• Death
• Increased risk for addiction to stimulants later in adult life

Most of the side effects of these study medications are not openly talked about at the doctor’s offices. Most doctors feel that the benefits outweigh the risks, for themselves and their patients. The fact that they have the drug companies giving them all types of incentives to give out their drugs can be pretty effective motivation as well. The company that puts out the most literature and information in regards to ADD/ADHD and treatment options for these disorders is given large amounts of their annual funding from different drug companies.

Most parents would not put their child on these drugs if they knew the risks that were involved in doing so. They also would probably not put their children on these medications if they knew that their were other effective treatments for these kids that were not dangerous. The problem is that the drug companies have so much money that they make it one of the best apparent options for kids who supposedly are suffering ADD/ADHD.

Addiction

It has been shown that kids who are put ADD/ADHD medication run a higher risk to addiction stimulants in their adult life. Because they are used to operating in life on a stimulant and then eventually their medication is no longer prescribed to them, they look for the stimulated feeling through other means. This can mean that they buy these types of medications illegally on the street, or in some cases start using illegal drugs that act the same way.

When a child or adult comes off of these medications, they may suffer from withdrawal or addictive behavior. They may need to go to a rehab center for addiction counseling to overcome some of these issues. A Narconon rehab center is a very good option for these individuals because at Narconon the person will address their physical dependency on the drug as well as learn the life coping skills that they need to function without these study drugs anymore.

The self cognitive courses that a person takes while attending Narconon are a very good fit for someone coming off of study drugs. They will learn how to communicate and concentrate as well as learn a very successful study method. They will learn the reasons why they had trouble concentrating in school and the solutions to overcome them. They will learn how really study information so that they understand and can assimilate it instead of just memorizing facts so that they can pass a test. They also learn how to calm themselves down so that they are more able to concentrate and focus. When they learn these skills they will find that they no longer have as great a need for the medications that they were so dependent on just to get through a class or test. They find that they actually can do better on their own. For a kid that has been told most of their life that they have something wrong with them, this can be a real boost to their self esteem. The Narconon program has a seventy-six percent success rate for all people who graduate the program.

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Narconon boasts a 76% success rate among graduations of the Narconon program.  Here is one of their successes after the sauna portion of the program….

Before I came to sauna I was lost and in a constant daze.  When I first got there to be honest I thought it was going to be pointless and wasn’t going to help me.  I had no energy and no spirit really.  All I could think about was dope.  After a week or so I could feel the weight of drugs lift and the fog in my head start to lift.  It seemed like everyday I was getting better.  For the longest time I had lost the feeling in my finger tips.  Somehow the sauna brought the feeling back.  I felt better than I ever had and energy and really a lot more hope I had in myself.  Now I am clear minded and I never think about drugs anymore and when I do I don’t want to do them like I used to.  I had a lot of realizations and wins.  I feel great and I look a lot better.  My family can even tell the difference in my voice.  It made a believer out of me and I will recommend the New Life detoxification program as a necessity to anybody who wants to get clean.

Narconon offers sauna detoxification along with real world study so that the student realizes what made them start using drugs and how to live without drugs in their lives.  Drug addiction doesn’t have to be a death sentence, you can survive with help.

Reflection

Abusing drugs like heroin, methamphetamines, cocaine, pot and prescription drugs can make a person lose control of their life and lead to drug addiction.  Even small tasks can become difficult.  The Objectives section of the Narconon drug treatment program helps a person take back control of their life.

“I realized that the decision to start, change and stop things is up to me.  I have the power and that is awesome.  Before, I was leaving situations up to other people to handle.  I would leave control up to others.  That made for a lot of randomness in my life and things were out of control.  During this exercise it hit me – I am the one who is in control!

I am happy to have this new found power.”

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When I got to this fine establishment January 23^rd. I was an absolute mess.  I had given up on everything, I had a very serious addiction to Xanax.

By using the technology I’ve learned from the program I will never see the day the way I saw it on Jan 23^rd.

Drug addiction is a very powerful thing which takes control of your entire life and sends you down a dark and lonely hole.
Narconon helps people overcome these addictions with education, sauna and counseling to help the addict and their family understand why someone is addicted.

See Yourself

Here is another Narconon realization for the day.  It is shared with the hopes that others will read it and reach to get some help.  Whether a person has done cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine or pot – there is help for them and a new life.

“I see how controlling my body is a very important tool in my life.  Before in my life I would be going down the road in my car and my intentions were good.  But I would let my body take over and before I knew it, I would be in the wrong neighborhood.  It was as if my body took over my thoughts and took total control over my mind.

Now I see how important it is for me to be in control of every part of me.  Today my body is being controlled by me.  I am in the driver’s seat, and I’m driving with happiness.”

Part of the Narconon program involves getting the student more in touch with their environment.  Heroin, methamphetamine, cocaine and other drugs of abuse tend to make a person look inward and after a while, they are not seeing the world any more.  The Narconon addiction program addresses that.  Here is a reflection from one of our students today.

“Today during course I realized that I can have anything and everything.  I can have the sunlight or the darkness. I can have the color yellow or the color black.

I realized I can dispense of anything or everything that I want.

I realize I can leave along anything and everything I want.  If I want it I can have it and if I don’t want it then it won’t be a part of my life! “