Tessa’s Story Chapter Four

This is chapter four in a story about a girl we will call Tessa. Tessa became very severely addicted to many drugs over the course of her early life and then went through the Narconon detox program and the rest of the Narconon program to overcome her addiction. This is the tale of her journey before, during and after her treatment at Narconon.

Tessa’s Addiction to Heroin Continues

Once Tessa’s family discovered her addiction to heroin, her father decided that it would be in her best interest to go back to Arizona and spend her summer with him under his supervision and care. Tessa’s father had bought a major hotel in the area and his plan was to give her a job working there and keep her too busy to be able to use. He felt that since he would be there with her, he would be able to prevent her from using drugs.

Once summer started, Tessa went on the long road trip from New Jersey to Arizona. Her brother lived out there at the time and she road in his car with him. As soon as Tessa got to Arizona, she called her boyfriend and told him to send her heroin in the mail.

Tessa did not have any desire to quit using drugs, so when she moved to Arizona for the summer, her addiction followed her. Tessa’s father was familiar with drug use, so pretty soon he wised up to the fact that she was still using. He searched her room and found the baggies of heroin. He did not want drugs in his house so he decided that Tessa was going to move to the hotel where she was working.

Tessa Tries Methamphetamine

Tessa moved all of her stuff to the hotel. After a while of working at the hotel Tessa met a girl who was using methamphetamine. Tessa and she started hanging out a lot and using meth together. She got pretty strung out on the meth, and her father notices that she still looks really unhealthy. One day while Tessa was busy doing work for the hotel, her father decided he was going to search the room where she was staying. He found meth in the room and he was infuriated. He decided that it was too big of a risk for him to have his daughter, who was pretty much openly using drugs, working for his hotel. He decided that Tessa needed to go ahead and go back to New Jersey.

Tessa Goes Back to the East Coast

Tessa went back to New Jersey and started to get prepared for her upcoming college year. She moved into a place in Greenwich Village. The neighborhood was very close to a multitude of crack houses where she went to buy her dope. It was just too easy for her to fall back into the pattern that she really didn’t want to stop anyway.

As far as college went, Tessa took three classes. School proved to still be easy for her and she maintained a B average. This was not the best average that she had ever had, but she had a drug habit to maintain. Plus there was the whole city of New York that Tessa was free to explore. Tessa loved the city. Tessa loved heroin.

Tessa still maintained a good relationship with her mother. She would go to visit her almost every weekend. While she was there, she would often make a stop at the old dope house that when she was senior she would get heroin from. One weekend when she was there she brought four hundred dollars with her. She ended up spending it on a binge and didn’t end up going home to see her mom. When she ran out of money, she did not know what to do. She needed more heroin because she was starting to feel sick again. Then she remembered that she was wearing a really expensive gold watch. She was sure that she would be able to get a good amount of dope for the watch.

She went out to the corner where the main guy was waiting for potential customers. She asked him how much dope she could get for her watch. He looked at the watch for a second and then told her that that if she would just go around the corner with him for a few minutes he would give her the dope. She stood there puzzled for a minute before she figured out what he had meant. Once she figured it out, it took her a moment to answer. She actually thought about his proposition before she told him that it was ok, he should really just take the watch. She got the heroin and did it and then called her mom.

She told her mom she needed to go to rehab or detox or something. The fact that she had considered selling her body for drugs really freaked her out. It finally made her realize that her addiction had made her turn into a desperate drug addict.

Tessa Goes to Her First Detox Center

Tessa’s mom came and picked her up and took her to a detox center. She was going to stay in the detox center while she went through withdrawal and her family could find another longer term rehab for her to go to.

The detox center turned out to be rough for Tessa and after being there for a day she tried to leave with another male patient who was leaving. The center was on a volunteer basis so the only way the center could prevent Tessa from leaving was to commit her to Psychiatric ward of the detox center. That is what ended up happening. The same day that Tessa got committed, her mom came down to visit her. Her mom found out what happened and was really angry. Tessa begged her to take her out of the detox and she refused. She told Tessa that it was terrible that she had tried to leave before she was even done detoxing.

Continued in Chapter Five