Narconon Success: Freed From Prescription Drug Abuse

Xanax Addiction

This is the story of one young man who got addicted to drugs and selling drugs. He got in touch with an addiction referral specialist who recommended that he contact Narconon. He went through the Narconon program and is doing really well today.

Early Childhood

N grew up in an upper middle class family. His parents never divorced and he was an only child. He lived in a very nice home for his entire childhood. He excelled in school. He made strait A’s all through elementary school. He parents also kept him very involved in sports.

Once he started high school, N was involved in wrestling, ran track and played football. He was very good at football. He got so good at football that he was the star player on his team. When he was fifteen he started smoking marijuana. He still played football and kept his grades up. He was very intelligent, so despite using drugs, keeping up his grades continued to be quite easy for him. He continued to excel in football as well.

He did so well in football that he actually had scouts from different colleges observing him. There were three or four different major colleges, some even from out of state, that had sent scouts out to observe his games. He had the preliminary qualifications for full scholarships to all of these schools. He was really at the top of his game. Unfortunately, his football career was going to be ended prematurely.

Injury Leads to Drug Use

When N was sixteen, he received a pretty bad head injury. He was diagnosed with a concussion. He had to stay out for the next three games. To make matters worse, the next game that he played he received an even more serious injury, this one to his shoulder. His shoulder was dislocated and he had to take the rest of the remaining season off to recuperate. The scouts that had been keeping up with him told him that once he got better he would still have the same offers from each of their respective schools.

Against better judgment, N did not resume his football career once he had recovered from his injuries. While he had time off, he began to get involved in more serious drugs. He started smoking methamphetamine and started abusing prescription drugs. He would often have a cocktail of meth, pain pills, and xanax. The scouts contacted him when he was better, but he said he was no longer interested. His obsession with getting high was too great to be able to want to quit. School football players had to pass random drug screens and he knew he would fail. It just seemed easier to not play football anymore.

Selling Drugs

N started also selling drugs at this time. Because he was able to keep his grades up, he was still able to qualify for a full paid scholarship to a major college in the area. He accepted the scholarship, but he was to lose that as well.

In his senior year of high school, N got caught with marijuana on school grounds. He was quickly kicked out of his high school and went to an alternative school to finish what remaining classes he had left. This made him no longer eligible for his full scholarship.

Father’ Death

Despite the loss of N’s scholarship, he started college the following fall. Around this time his father passed away. When his father died, N decided that he was no longer going to use methamphetamine. Something about his father’s death made him come to this decision. He also around this time, became more serious about his drug pushing career. He did very well with making money. By the time he was twenty one, he was making so much money selling drugs that he decided that he no longer needed to go to college.

At this point he was selling marijuana, xanax, and oxycontin. He was selling about twenty five to fifty pounds of marijuana a week, about a kilo of cocaine, a week, and numerous amounts of xanax bars. He was also using lots of xanax and oxycontin. He was spending large amounts of money as well. He was making so much money he was able to buy anything that he wanted and more. He would go on vacation whenever he wanted, buy whatever he wanted whenever he wanted and still had more money left over.

He used very heavily and at some points he wanted to be able to get sober. Unfortunately the drugs that he was using were very physically addictive and the withdrawal was too painful for him to go through without assistance. He had to take one hundred and sixty milligrams of oxycontin when he would first wake up in the morning, or he was unable to get out of bed.

Addicted to Prescription Drugs

If a person is addicted to xanax or another benzodiazepine the physical withdrawal can be fatal. It causes seizures, hallucinations and in some cases even cardiac arrest. Opiates often give the user a sense of extra energy and well being. Unfortunately when a person comes off of the opiates it has the opposite effect. They often feel very lethargic and unable to do anything. In addition to this they often have trouble falling and staying asleep and feel high levels of anxiety. Other physical effects of the withdrawal from opiates is extreme nausea, vomiting, accompanied by diarrhea. It is like the worst case of food poisoning imaginable. The person is pretty much too tired and weak to really move except enough to make it to the toilet to vomit and go to the bathroom. They can also have panic attacks and feelings of extreme nervousness. It is a very serious form of hell. Fortunately, there are now relatively mild medications available that can be used for a few days to alleviate most symptoms. N did not readily have access to these medications; he was not under the care of a good doctor and at the time, did not know of their existence anyway.

More on Narconon Resources: Continued in Chapter Two….