A Narconon Success Story

This the story of the trials, tribulations and ultimate successes of a Narconon graduate.   We will call her D.

Narconon Warns: It Can Happen to Anybody

D was born in a country outside of the US. She grew up in a moderately wealthy home with both her parents and a brother and a sister that are her juniors. As a child she made good grades had many friends. In her country of origin it is customary for people of some wealth to have maids to attend to the household and so it was in D’s house. She said one of her maids actually died of AIDS when she was a little girl and it was quite horrible. Aside from that her early childhood was quite happy. She had many pets, a nice home, and a close-knit family that loved her. Of course there were the normal squabbles that a household with three children are sure to encounter. There was the normal sibling rivalry at times and her parents would have disagreements occasionally. Overall however D said she feels she had a normal healthy childhood for the most part. She made excellent good grades all the way up until college. She never did any drugs and for the most part led a very sheltered life. She did not even date until she went away to college.

Introduction to Drugs

Within a few months of being in college, D met a very good looking young man who was twenty-three. They began dating shortly thereafter. She was very impressed with him and the fact that he was older and more experienced. One day he took her to his home. D had never done drugs in her life. He smoked crack with her. She had no idea what it was or what it would do. She got very high and felt very good for a short period. She did nothing else like this for a few weeks. Then her boyfriend took her out again and this time he gave her LSD.

She was in school at the time going for her teaching degree because she had always found comfort in the strait and narrow path. She felt that being a teacher would afford her a dependable, reputable, and honorable life style. Her desire for this type of life began to wane, however once she started seeing her boyfriend. He offered excitement and experiences that she had never encountered before. He showed her what she felt were glimpses of the cosmos through the different drugs he exposed her to. It was all very exciting. They began going to raves all the time. They would stay up all night and sleep all day. D said that the whole thing was quite dangerous and thrilling. Her life felt like it was like an exciting dangerous movie.

She and her boyfriend we will call Fred stayed together for a year. Then his mother insisted that he move back home. D moved with her family shortly thereafter as well and they did not really see each other anymore.

D got a job as a waitress in a local restaurant. While working one day she saw another young man that just mesmerized her.   After a short while, D was dating him.

More Drugs

This gentleman, we will call him Norman, did drugs as well. When D moved to her new location she had decided that she was going to stop doing drugs and really focus on her studies and lead a normal productive life. However, upon meeting Norman, her resolve left her and it was back to the races. They continued to party with all sorts of drugs for many months. Ecstasy was one of their favorites. Ecstasy is often laced with heroin. D and Norman began to do just heroin sometimes. It was often to counteract or lessen the effects of another drug they were on. After a while they started using more and more heroin together. At first they would snort it. After a while they started smoking it. Smoking anything gives a greater effect than snorting as the substance hits the blood stream right away via the lungs. It is the equivalent to shooting up, it hits the blood stream that fast.

Soon they were hopelessly addicted. They had to use heroin every day just to feel normal. Their relationship was very obsessive and they were very dependent upon one another. They lived in the house belonging to Norman’s mother.   He was in his early twenties and still acted dependent with his mother as if he were a child. His father had died when his mother was pregnant in a car crash and she put a lot emotional store on her son when he was born. To this day, and Norman is now around thirty, he is still living with his mother.

Trying To Find Help for Heroin Addiction

One day, after struggling with heroin addiction for a few years, it hit D that she did not want to use drugs anymore. She and Norman had started fighting over their drugs.   One day D was going through withdrawal and got so sick she could not even leave the house to acquire the heroin that would make her better. She called Norman to bring her some and he refused saying that he was too busy with something else. Vomiting and laying in her bathroom on the floor, D fully realized she was utterly alone in her addiction. Her druggie boyfriend was of no support for her. She realized she wanted help. She told Norman this when she saw him again and he scoffed at her and told her she was fool. D did not care, she wanted help.

She began to call around to different centers to find help. This was turned out to be very disheartening for her. At all most all the centers she would talk to the counselors and would tell her how unlikely it would be for her to quit using heroin. Yet she persisted. She did not like the life that she was living any longer; she needed to get clean.

Finding Narconon

Finally one day D received a ray of hope. She called a center called Narconon. She thought it was related to Narcotics Anonymous because of the similarity in name. However, it was not and had nothing to do with its 12 step based counterpart. On this particular call D had the opportunity to talk to a very lively gentleman . He explained that Narconon was a very different program. He said the success rate was very high and there was a very good chance that if D went through the Narconon program she would succeed in her battle against heroin. He explained how she would be able regain her self-esteem and her drive for life. Finally, D felt a ray of hope in the nightmare that had been her life of late. She went and told Norman about the whole affair. She tried to convince him that it would be best if they would both get help together. In her heart she still had a sort of diseased loved for Norman and she did not really desire to get better without him. After their conversation however, D realized that is exactly what she would have to do. It was coming down to wire and D realized her life really was on the line.

Later that week she went to meet the gentleman she had spoken to on the phone at Narconon. They had a very nice meeting despite the fact the D was high on heroin. She learned more detail of the Narconon program and made the decision that she was going to do it. However, she also learned that the price was a bit more than she could afford and she did not have health insurance that would cover the cost. She realized she would have to save up. She also decided that she was going to begin weaning herself down off the heroin. The idea of coming off so much cold turkey was much too daunting to face. She commenced her wean down immediately.

Getting Into Treatment

She also realized that she was going to have to talk to her parents about the situation. The Narconon program lasted about four to six months and her parents would surely notice her absence after such a period. She informed her parents of the drugs. They had suspected as much but had been suffering from drastic financial problems. Also D denied any of the use for a long time and they did not really have any way to prove it. She explained that she had found a Narconon center that she was planning on saving up for to go to. Her parents offered to help pay as much as they could. They made arrangements with the center. D’s parents would pay for thirty percent of the Narconon program and then she would do work at the center to help pay for the remaining balance.

Continued in Narconon Success: part two