When someone in your family is taking a dangerous drug, your role is no longer support of drug prevention efforts. You need to act fast.
A recent daunting report from NIDA (National Institute on Drug Abuse), estimates that abuse and addiction still cost the American public upwards of half a trillion dollars a year. Despite reported success with drug prevention, which has dropped the drug use by young adults from 19.4 percent in 2001 to 14.9 percent in 2006, many families still have to face the need to seek intervention to help a loved one.
Drugs do destroy people’s lives, figuratively and literally. Take the Southern California wife of a talented musician. She experienced the death of her husband in front of her eyes from a cocaine overdose. She knew he had a serious cocaine addiction, but she did not act quite fast enough. More tragic, at the time of his death, her husband was on the verge of going into a drug rehab program.
Ultimately, if the problem is substance abuse, the only answer is getting the addict into rehab before tragedy strikes. If this is your situation, your only thought must be to get the addict to stop taking drugs before it is too late.
There are two questions left unanswered that can delay many intended interventions: Can anything really be done to end the drug cravings? And will my loved one reject my help?
The simple answer to the first question is Yes. If someone you know is addicted to drugs or alcohol, introduce them to the Narconon® program It has a 40 year track record handling addicts’ cravings for drugs so they can live lives free of urges to revert.
To answer the second one, there is this. Every wife, husband, parent needs to know that when addicts can begin to believe that life could be drug free, even if there are still doubts, most will try for it.
It may seem only drugs are important to an addict. But look closer – there is a life to be lived that is flickering. Getting your son or daughter or other family member to a truly successful drug rehab program will resuscitate that life. There are four decades of families who know this is true, because they have seen it for themselves. Don’t wait until it is too late.
Thousands of people have successfully completed Narconon’s drug rehabilitation program and, unlike many other alcohol and drug treatment methods, the vast majority of graduates go on to live stable, ethical, productive, drug-free lives.
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New Study Reveals A Killer Combination of Abused SubstancesWednesday, February 3rd, 2010Substance abuse by itself is bad enough in that it can lead to addiction or arrest. But in some situations, drug abuse leads to sudden death. A study just released by the Institute of Legal Medicine in Seville, Spain, discovered a combination of factors that resulted in death for twenty-one drug abusers. These deaths weren’t caused by drug overdoses – it was the fatal combination of drugs that ended these lives. The Spanish study set out to determine factors involved in sudden deaths in southwest Spain between 2003 and 2006. Through autopsies and toxicology reports, the study determined that in three percent of sudden deaths, a fatal combination of cocaine, alcohol and tobacco use caused sudden death. Among these cocaine-related deaths, 76 percent had also used alcohol at the time of death, and 81 percent were smokers. It’s long been known that cocaine places stresses on one’s heart, a fact tragically brought to light when Len Bias, the promising young basketball star, died suddenly after using cocaine in 1986. These days, many substance abusers abuse multiple drugs at the same time. In the U.S., 72 percent of drug-related deaths are caused by poly-drug use. In the Spanish study, 62 percent of the cocaine-related deaths were associated with cardiovascular (heart) problems. Another 14 percent were associated with cerebrovascular causes (blood vessels in the brain) like strokes or aneurysms. The Spanish report emphasizes the importance of effective drug rehabilitation. Providing drug addiction treatment is how the Narconon drug and alcohol rehabilitation program has saved lives for four decades. Although traditional drug treatment centers have success rates of 16 percent or less, Narconon rehab centers achieve a 70 percent success rate year after year. Around the world in 120 centers, Narconon drug rehabs help addicts return to stably drug-free and alcohol-free lives, thus preserving them from the damage found in this study. In addition, Narconon centers and staffs provide drug prevention services for schools and community groups. If you would like more information on Narconon’s drug education, prevention and rehabilitation programs, visit www.narconon.org.
Narconon Brings Program to AlbaniaWednesday, November 25th, 2009 Narconon Albania event This month Narconon Albania hosted a series of events to acknowledge the opening of the Narconon program in this country. A special event was held at the European University in Tirana with 50 invited guests from different ministries and local NGOs, as well as representatives from other rehab centers. Executive Director Narconon Albania Vitorja Leila and Deputy Executive Director Narconon Europe Ole Thiemer gave an overview of the Narconon® program and how it can help address the rising drug abuse in their country.  Albania attendees The representative from the ministry of social affairs thanked Narconon for their efforts in making a difference for Albania by preventing kids from using drugs and helping to rehabilitate addicts. Representatives from a rehab center in Kosovo expressed their wish to implement the Narconon Program in their center. The following day, Narconon representatives met with the Minister of Health who acknowledged the importance for effective solutions in the field of drug education and rehabilitation services and offered his his help and support. Narconon Europe staff also delivered a drug education presentation at the Petro Nini Luarasi High School in Tirana. The school psychologist was very impressed with the presentation and has requested Narconon presentations in the elementary schools in the city. In celebration of the establishment of Narconon in Albania, staff and guests gathered for an opening of their new Narconon office.  Drug free withdrawal opening  Narconon Albania Drug Education
Operation Medicine Cabinet Sponsored by Narconon GeorgiaWednesday, September 2nd, 2009
Narconon Georgia is sponsoring a campaign called “Operation Medicine Cabinet” together with a local sheriff’s department in an effort to reduce the amount of prescription drug abuse problems among the people of Georgia. Basically the way this works is by providing a safe way to dispose of prescription medication in Georgia so that it is dealt with responsibly. This is to ward people (and children) from taking and/or abusing these drugs, thus reducing the prescription drug abuse problem in Georgia and reducing the damage of these drugs. So as you see, the Narconon of Georgia is very busy working to help the people in its area and in their article about “Operation Medicine Cabinet” Narconon of Georgia stated that this program should be implemented around the country in different states to lower prescription drug abuse around USA.
Drug use is increasing in the schools. Who cares?Monday, August 24th, 2009A lot of parents aren’t aware that 80% of the nation’s high school students and 44% of middle-school students have witnessed illegal drugs used or sold and students drunk or high on the school grounds. This survey was conducted by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) at Colombia University, which Joseph A. Califano Jr. founded and directs. “This fall more than 16 million teens will return to middle and high schools where drug dealing, possession, use, and students high on alcohol or drugs are part of the fabric of their school,” Califano says. Need any more be said? You’d think not, but the truth is that while each year people are warning others about how common drug use is becoming all across the nations, it seems the numbers and percentages keep getting higher. What does this mean? It means parents aren’t paying attention or taking these numbers and percentages too seriously so parents aren’t educating their kids about drugs to the fullest. Sad, but true, a lot of parents may not worry about this until they’re a victim to their kid using drugs, which by then is too late. That’s why it’s important to educate kids about drugs no matter how much of an angel you may think your kid is to prevent the cycle of drug addiction from ever occurring. You can be most certain that one day your kid will have to make a decision to use drugs or to not use drugs. The way society has made drugs seem like they’re so great and how so much false information about drugs is scattered out and about, it may not be so hard for a kid to say, “yes” and give drugs a try. That’s all it really takes. Just one try and then the cycle of drug addiction can begin. But who really cares anyway? Maybe the schools care. You can leave the problem up to the schools and hope your kid is getting educated about drugs, but who’s educating the kids, the teachers or the students? You care more for your kid than anyone else does so you might want to educate your kid about drugs yourself.
Allison Narconon of Georgia drug rehabilitation graduateMonday, August 17th, 2009Allison says “Someone can definitely achieve a drug-free life.” Why is this important? Well, Allison was a drug addict herself, before she went through the Narconon® drug rehabilitation program. Allison was addicted to xanax, cocaine and crack. She had been using these drugs for quite some time and they were destroying her. She lived in a trailer, had a job and barely had enough money to live off of, after an expensive drug addiction. As for Allison personally, she was not in any healthy state and didn’t weigh very much as her body was so deteriorated thanks to her drug addiction. After all that bad news there is a change that can be spoken of. Allison doesn’t do drugs anymore! She did the Narconon rehabilitation program and is completely drug-free and changed her life around. Now that Allison doesn’t have an addiction to worry about she has given positive messages back to Narconon, “The Narconon program is about more than just getting off drugs or getting drugs out of your system. Its about learning how to live your life all over again, learning how to be with your family again, learning how to be with your friends again, learning how to be comfortable being you and then once you have that you can move forward and tackle your life, achieve everything you’ve ever wanted to.” Allison said this about the Narconon program: “My life now is great compared to when I started, like I said I was a mess when I started, I didn’t have anything to my name. Now I’m a self-functioning individual, I can pay my own bills. My family life is great I can call up my parents and say ‘hey lets go to dinner and have a good time’. I don’t call them with bad news anymore. My life totally turned around its great I don’t have any problems anymore.” Now you know Allison’s story about her change during the Narconon program for the better. Let us hope more people don’t have to fall down the dangerous road to addiction and eventual rehabilitation, but programs like Narconon are here if people need it. Check out some videos of Allison and her brother. So you may ask, “is a drug-free life possible for anyone hooked up on drugs now?” Allison is one of the many that complete the Narconon drug rehabilitation program. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6u43Rj7M_HA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kewsTfAy37I http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drg5-rGhnoo
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