Many professionals and even government agencies present that idea, and support it with brain scan images and even plenty of scientific data.

However, if a completely different idea could result in full recovery from drug addiction, it seems that this would disprove the idea that addiction is a disease.

This will become clearer as you read on.

How does classifying addiction as a disease benefit anyone?

For one thing, we know that if addiction is classified as a disease, one would need to go to the doctor for medical treatment. This means about 22 million potential American patients in the form of drug addicts, plus tens of millions more outside the U.S. who would be treated by the medical industry. Pharmaceutical companies are busily working on creating more drugs to market to this segment of the medical industry.

In the past, pharmaceutical companies have sold heroin, morphine, opium, codeine and methadone, just to name a few drugs, which at one time were sold as non-addictive, and then later found to be as addictive as other drugs they were replacing. Recently, there are drugs prescribed under the brand names of Suboxone and Subutex, both formulations of buprenorphine that are given to addicts to help them get off other drugs or alcohol. These may all be prescribed for long-term “control” of drug addiction. What this means actually, is that a person trades one drug for another, and continues to take it, sometimes for years, providing a steady stream of income for both the doctors who prescribe and administer the drugs and the pharmaceutical industry who sells them.

Another point to take into account is that when one classifies addiction as a disease, its treatment is often paid for under medical insurance.
If one believes that addiction is a disease, then one might not consider other drug treatment regimens such as nutrition, faith-based, or other alternative methods of overcoming addiction. However, the fact is that nutrition, faith and other alternatives each have a part in helping many people to live a sober life following their addiction experience. By continuing to define addiction as a disease, it also allows one not to take responsibility for his condition, pointing to the “I’m sick” excuse as the reason for continued drug taking.

A more accurate definition of addiction would be a condition wherein one repeats compulsive seeking and use of drugs, alcohol or other similar substances despite the negative consequences, whether physical, social or mental. Usually, it also consists of both a physical and psychological dependency on the substance abused, and the appearance of withdrawal symptoms when removing the addictive substance.

In 1966, William Benitez, who founded Narconon, wrote this about his understanding of what addiction was:
“I realized that drug addiction was nothing more than a ‘disability,’ resulting when a person ceases to use abilities essential to constructive survival. I found that if a person rehabilitated and applied certain abilities, that person could persevere toward goals set, confront life, isolate problems and resolve them, communicate with life, be responsible and set ethical standards, and function within the band of certainty.”

Mr. Benitez found that he could apply the written works of L. Ron Hubbard on the mind and human spirit, to recover from his heroin addiction after many years of failing to overcome the condition. He continued by developing the first form of the Narconon program and had good results with other inmates recovering from their addictions. Later, after his release from prison, he started by opening the first Narconon center in Los Angeles, California and continued to help several hundred addicts return to sober lives.

If one reviews the average recovery rate from conventional programs in the U.S. dealing with addiction, most centers say that 16% to 20% of people recover from addiction. Some treatment modalities have lower rates.

But, at Narconon drug and alcohol rehabilitation centers, seventy percent of graduates remain clean and sober after completion. This is one of the best recovery rates in the entire addiction rehab field.

If you are considering Narconon services for you or your loved one, consider your own philosophy of drug recovery. Then talk to a Narconon intake counselor and learn all the details of the Narconon program. Call today to get accurate, scientific-based data to help you make your decision.

When he does finally make that painful decision, he will be likely to need help to find effective rehab and treatment. This is the time for the family to help. They will find there are many different treatment options, some far more effective than others.

Narconon has been providing effective drug and alcohol treatment for more than 45 years in fifty locations around the world. The success rate of sobriety for its graduates completing the program is 70%, far higher than most programs. The length of treatment of three to six months for alcohol recovery may be longer than what is offered in some programs, but this is in accordance with many official recommendations, including that of the National Institute on Drug Addiction (NIDA). Their guidelines state that participation for less than 90 days is limited in its effectiveness, and programs that last significantly longer are recommended to maintain a positive outcome.

The treatment program one should look for then, should be a long-term program. Some programs also offer drugs to help the alcoholic stop drinking, or other drugs that may usually be prescribed for mental disorders. Once they get sober, many alcoholics may not have any other mental problems than their addiction to alcohol, and besides that, these prescribed drugs are often addictive too.

Narconon operates on the philosophy that solving one addiction with addiction to another drug is not desirable as a treatment modality. In fact drug-less treatment and a full recovery is totally possible at Narconon, and is accomplished daily.

There is hope at Narconon for a full and lasting return to sobriety. Most recovering alcoholics who see that there is a real possibility of full recovery will not relapse and continue drinking. And most, after completing the program, do not show other symptoms needing any medications.

Another problem experienced by some treatment programs is that of treatment dropout. They recommend motivational techniques to keep patients involved throughout their treatment.

This is exactly what occurs at Narconon. Each individual is intimately involved from day one of the program. He starts with a surprisingly tolerable, comprehensive withdrawal step, followed by a deep detox on the Narconon New Life Detoxification Program. In both of these steps of the program, the physical addiction is addressed, and the recovering alcoholic gradually comes out of the fog of his addiction, assisted by trained staff.

The Narconon drug rehab program also addresses the need for the recovering alcoholic to be able to chart his course to a drug and alcohol-free life with training on several life skills courses. These teach him the tools he will need to maintain a sober lifestyle which include personal integrity, communication and many other skills. After completing all eight phases of the full Narconon program, the person has regained his self-respect, and gained the confidence that he can now live his life without resorting to alcohol or other drugs as an escape.

He only graduates the program when he has completed a plan to live a productive, drug-free life, and he is in no doubt that he can do so.

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Both men and women can quickly become addicted and may turn to criminal actions such as stealing valuables from loved ones or others in the community or even prostitution to support this expensive habit.

One who is suffering from the torment of finding their next crack rock has probably lost hope and may have forgotten what it is like not to be addicted. To recover and live drug-free again may seem out of reach at this depth of addiction. However, recovering and returning to a truly enjoyable and drug-free life is possible and happens daily at fifty Narconon drug and alcohol rehabilitation centers all over the world.

The Narconon program that is standardized at each drug and alcohol rehab center begins by helping a person to withdraw safely from crack addiction with generous personal support. This allows someone to experience a surprisingly tolerable withdrawal, that does not have to include the intense cravings and depression that can sometimes follow stopping crack usage. This stage of the Narconon rehab program also provides full nutritional support to give the body plenty of energy and nutrition, which it loses over years of crack cocaine abuse. This nutritional support helps the person to avoid a “crash” which can occur otherwise.

Very personal one-on-one attention is characteristic of the full Narconon program. The next step involves a deep detox on the Narconon New Life Detoxification Program. On this step, one rids himself of the drug residues that are stored in the body’s fatty tissues. The individual does this by following a carefully supervised regimen of daily moderate exercise, time spent in a dry-heat sauna, and more nutritional supplementation. At the end of this portion of the program, most addicts report fewer or no cravings for the drug, along with an increase in energy, and the ability to think clearly without the fogginess caused by drugs.

Now that one is able to concentrate more easily, the next part of the Narconon program is a series of courses to enable one to move forward to living a drug-free life. It addresses training in such essential life skills as the ability to communicate with others more easily. One also learns how to relieve the guilt that results from harmful acts one committed while on drugs, as well as how to maintain his personal integrity in the future. There are courses that help one learn how to choose associates and friends who will be supportive of a drug-free style of life, rather than those who will bring one down.

At Narconon, there are techniques to teach each person the skills he needs to maintain lasting sobriety, and before graduating, he will chart his own course for a productive, drug-free future that he is confident he can follow.

If you or a loved one is suffering the pain of cocaine or crack cocaine addiction, it is possible to fully recover and start on your way to lasting relief. Many thousands have done so at Narconon centers around the world. Contact an Intake Counselor at Narconon to get rehab for crack addiction.

It can often happen that one inadvertently gets hooked on pain relievers. This is a story about a young man named Brandon, who used to ride BMX bikes, both motocross and stunt riding. He eventually injured his knee and required pain medications which were prescribed for him — opiates. This led him down the road to addiction.

Fortunately for Brandon, he found a Narconon drug and alcohol rehabilitation facility, and has just completed his full recovery from prescription drug addiction. Here is his story.

After hurting his knee, doctors performed surgery to rebuild it. Then he took the opiates prescribed following the surgery, and continued to take them afterwards as he felt better than when he didn’t take them. He never realized the addictive power of these prescription pain killers.

Continuing to ride BMX bikes, he also continued to injure himself, and thus was prescribed more pain killers. Finally, he was taken off the drugs, and began to feel sick, but still didn’t realize that he was suffering from addiction withdrawal. At about the same time, his friends were abusing opiate pain pills and he started too, at parties. At age 16, he started snorting OxyContin, and each time he did so, he didn’t feel sick. In addition, he started drinking alcohol excessively.

Eventually his parents realized what was happening with Brandon and they sent him to a rehab facility for 90 days when he was 17 years old. Unfortunately, Brandon wasn’t ready to quit, and didn’t actually realize the problem with drugs that others saw in him. So, after he was released, he quickly started smoking pot and drinking, and then drifted back to the pain pills.

During his senior year of high school in Richmond, Virginia he started snorting heroin. His friends told him that shooting it was “the way to go,” so he started shooting up and that began his hard-core addiction.

He then tried some rehab programs which used Suboxone (buprenorphine) to help prevent withdrawal symptoms. However, he didn’t realize that he was still taking an opioid drug daily; he just felt better with the Suboxone and assumed that he was doing better than when on heroin.

However, he’d keep drifting back to the friends who took heroin, and he’d slip back into using it again, sometimes selling his Suboxone, or even taking it in the morning so he could go to work, and then coming home to shoot heroin too. He was lucky he didn’t end his life then in an overdose, but he was just lost at this point and didn’t consider that possibility. At this time, he worked for his father hanging drywall, his only purpose being to make enough money for another fix. Weekends were devoted to drug use and partying, and by Sunday his money was always gone.

He went to another long-term rehab about the time he was 21, where he stayed for 11 months. However, even this long interruption of his drug-taking didn’t resolve the addiction pattern. Right before he was supposed to complete the program and graduate, he and someone else from the rehab left for the evening and got drunk. He left the rehab program the next day.

Brandon’s alcohol abuse quickly advanced into more heroin use and for the next two years it continued. Sometimes he could get a prescription for Suboxone but he didn’t use it unless he couldn’t get any heroin.

He finally did come to realize that he had to overcome his addiction. He and his family found the Narconon program over the Internet. With his family’s help, he made the decision to go to Narconon, although his commitment to finding lasting sobriety there was shaky at first. He heard from other students at Narconon how much better they felt and this encouraged him to give the program a real chance.

Once that happened and he started to work sincerely on the Narconon program he felt good about himself again; the first time in many years. He said that he started having a natural happy feeling – and one he hadn’t felt in a long time.

Once Brandon started moving through the program he was able to resolve old feelings of resentment: he says he finally began to grow up while on the program. Seeing himself finish the full Narconon program, the first rehab he actually completed all the way through, was a proud moment for Brandon.

He also chose to stay at the Narconon Rehab Center to aid others to recover from drug addiction. He’ll tell other students, “Dude, if I can do it, you can do it.” He adds, “I’m glad I did this program. With my experience in rehabs, I don’t think people could find a better place to be.”

If you or someone you care about has a problem with pain killer or other drug or alcohol addiction, contact a drug rehab counselor at Narconon International. You don’t have to be trapped in the cycle of addiction. Narconon offers an effective rehab program in fifty locations all over the world.

Of all of them, Ecstasy is the most popular. It is very addictive and can be fatal if the user’s body temperature goes too high. For this reason, some party locales offer bottles of cold water at exorbitant prices and some offer “chill rooms” where the temperatures are kept low so that dancers can cool off.

Ecstasy is a stimulant, similar to methamphetamine, causing rapid heart rates and increases in body temperature. It also causes increased tactical pleasure in the user and sometimes leads to casual sex with persons who are practically strangers. One example was a woman who would go to clubs and get Ecstasy from a man. She then would feel close to him, thought he was her “true love,” and sleep with him, waking up the next morning wondering why she had done so. Then, due to her addiction to Ecstasy, she would repeat the same action the next night, and so on.

GHB, or gamma hydroxybutyrate, is a popular club drug that can be deadly. It often is used in the case of drug-related sexual assault, as the assault is made easier since this drug makes one physically incapacitated and helpless, and its victims are unable to consent to sexual activity. It is nicknamed “Grievous Bodily Harm” because it makes one disassociate from his body, and have no sensation of injury to it.

Since this class of drugs is synthetic, is all one would have to do is change a single molecule of the chemical formula to create a different drug, which may enable dealers to dodge laws designed to keep these drugs off the street.

As with any drug addiction like heroin, alcohol or cocaine, if one is addicted to club drugs, he needs effective drug rehab. For most users who are on the road to recovery, a long term program or 90 days or longer is the best chance one has for lasting sobriety.

At Narconon drug and alcohol rehabilitation centers in fifty locations around the world, it’s been found that a drug-less approach to rehab treatment is possible. The drug addict does not need to substitute another drug for the one he is addicted to in order to recover. Narconon offers an effective, long-term, alternative solution to drug abuse and dependency.

The Narconon rehab program addresses the physical drug cravings, as well as the guilt, destruction of relationships and other losses in self-respect that a drug addict suffers. In each Narconon facility, both the physical, mental and emotional reasons for drug abuse are thoroughly addressed in a safe, secure environment, designed for a complete recovery. The person who is recovering from drug abuse has a chance to regain his integrity and chart a course for his future, based upon common sense moral values and personal goals.

One learns skills at Narconon that can enable him to maintain a drug-free, productive life upon completing the program, and seven of ten graduates of Narconon remain sober and drug-free at least two years after finishing the program.

Anyone addicted to club drugs needs help to achieve a lasting drug-free future. There is help available at Narconon centers, with locations on six continents. Please call a trained intake counselor at Narconon to find out all the details of the full Narconon program. You can help someone you care about who is using club or other drugs to get clean and straight and back on track.

OxyContin is a very strong, frequently-abused drug which acts as an opioid pain killer and is supposed to be formulated so that it is time-released. However, abusers have found ways around its time-release features to abuse the drug in several different ways. They can smoke it, crush and snort it, or dissolve it and then inject it into their veins, bypassing the time-release features so that they get a full heroin-like dose of the opioid in the body at one time. It is estimated that abuse and addiction to this drug plagues 200,000 people just in Canada.

When abusers find that they can not obtain their Oxy for some reason, many turn to heroin, which is surprisingly cheaper and more accessible than the prescription drug. Heroin is readily available from drug dealers on the street, and may be easier to find than to weave through the complex medical systems of Canada or the United States.

The government of the United States approved the Purdue Pharma drug company’s less abusable form of the drug in 2011, but it had to then meet the requirements of the Canadian authorities. This new drug, called OxyNeo was released for Canadian patients in the beginning of March, 2012. It is supposedly formulated to resist dissolving, smoking or crushing, thus circumventing the avenues abusers had used to release the full potency of the drug quickly.

According to reports, this new OxyNeo pill is supposedly too hard to crush but when it is swallowed, will still release the correct amount of medication to the body. Those who find that a whole, intact pill is excreted through their body’s waste channels are informed that they are still receiving the correct amount of medicine as is intended.

For those who would smoke the pills these new ones will not burn, at least not enough to get intoxicated from them. There is also a feature that will turn the pill into jelly when someone tries to dissolve it so it cannot be injected. These features are designed to protect those people who cannot control their extreme craving for this drug.

But, when one is addicted to opiates it is almost inconceivable to not obtain more of the drug. So, what will the users of OxyContin, when unable to obtain more of their favorite drug do to solve this dilemma? If addiction rehab is not a viable alternative, then the opiate addict will undoubtedly try to obtain his drugs from another source.

His choices would be to find other prescription opiates like hydrocodone or fentanyl or hydromorphone, and to find a doctor who would prescribe these for him. Another option would be to try to get the OxyContin from the Internet, and purchase from some other country’s suppliers, such as India or China. Unfortunately these countries may supply false products, which are not the drug at all; or some version which is contaminated with other toxins; or at best, he will get the drug but of some unknown potency. And, finally, and most likely, these users would turn to heroin. Heroin is readily available in Canada and the U.S., and its usage is already on the rise in Canada. According to the site for Canadian news, Canada.com, there have been large increases in the number of students abusing heroin, with that number doubling in just the year 2007-2008 among Toronto students. And, according to the same site, the ages of Canadian heroin addicts is falling, from about age 19 just 20 years ago to as young as 14 years of age now.

This trend does not have to continue.

There is actually hope for heroin or OxyContin and other drug abusers. The very best thing that could happen is that one would not transition off one drug to another, and another after that and so on. It would be far better to find an effective drug rehab program that really can address this issue and handle the addiction for good. There are many drug rehabs in the U.S. and Canada who claim success rates between 16 and 20 percent.

There is one that has been far more effective however and that is Narconon.

At Narconon drug and alcohol rehabilitation centers, 70% of their graduates regularly stay clean and sober for at least two years after completing the program. In Quebec, at Trois-Rivieres, there is a Narconon long-term residential rehab program for those who are ready to kick the habit for good. There is also another rehab center offering real help for addicts in Alberta, the province which in 2010 had the highest rate of opiate abuse in the country. And, in Vancouver, there is a drug education program offering Narconon’s extremely effective drug prevention curriculum so that young people never even start to go down the road to OxyContin, OxyNeo, heroin or any other drug abuse.

There is help available to those who have been abusing any drugs, marijuana, prescription drugs, or even alcohol. It is the purpose of Narconon to help addicts to find lasting sobriety and become productive, drug-free members of society. This occurs at Narconon centers all over the world on a daily basis.

Find out more details about the Narconon drug rehab program by calling one of our drug counselors.

These programs, particularly in Europe and Canada, and some in the United States work on the premise that you can never get someone completely un-addicted from heroin. They will provide clean needles or “safe rooms” for addicts, to minimize the spread of HIV and Hepatitis B through needle sharing or dirty needles. Others involve prescribing pharmaceutical grade heroin to addicts who have not made a successful recovery at any rehab facility.

Since the truth is that heroin addiction is not a permanent situation, and that real recovery is possible for this as well as other addictions, one should not settle for just being safer or healthier while still remaining a heroin addict. There is hope for a full recovery from heroin addiction with the right rehab program.

Narconon drug and alcohol rehab programs exist on six continents of the world in fifty locations, each using a standardized regimen which actually results in seven of ten heroin addicts and people addicted to other drugs becoming and staying drug-free. This is done without the aid of alternate drugs to substitute for heroin, and without any horrible or arduous withdrawal for most people.

The Narconon program works because there is a true understanding of the cycle of addiction and what factors continue to drive people back into more drug use. These are drug cravings, and the feelings of depression and guilt.

If these three factors are truly handled, the person is then free to lead a happier drug-free life.

The Narconon program addresses the drug cravings by using a unique sauna detox called the Narconon New Life Detoxification Program. It includes specific nutritional supplements tailored to each person as they progress through the program. In addition, while on this step of the Narconon program, one does a moderate amount of daily exercise and spends time in a low, dry-heat sauna. One is carefully supervised during this part as well as during all aspects of the Narconon program. What occurs after this unique regimen has been used for anywhere from 30-60 days, is that the person has been able to rid his body of the accumulated toxins from drug usage, which were stored in the body’s fatty tissues. These, when reactivated into the bloodstream have been shown to be capable of triggering cravings for more drugs even long after one has stopped taking any.

After finishing the Narconon New Life Detoxification Program one is able to face life with a brighter outlook, more energy and most often with fewer or even no more cravings for drugs.

The person who is going through heroin recovery now must address the depression and guilt that most addicted people suffer. Each person during his addiction has done things that he is not proud of, sometimes even illegal or harmful acts to others close to him. Also, the physical withdrawal itself can produce feelings of depression. These feelings are remedied with real nutritional support from day one of the program, along with the life skills training that one engages in after completing the full physical detox.

On these life skills courses, one learns how to fully take responsibility for his actions, which sometimes must include making up any damage to loved ones he has harmed while addicted. He will learn several other skills which help him to lead a drug-free and productive life. At the end of the program, each recovered addict makes a plan for his future life with a determination to remain drug-free, even in the face of life’s challenges. Seven out of ten Narconon graduates remain drug-free without even having to attend Narconon meetings.

After recovering from heroin addiction at Narconon, graduates have relieved their cravings, guilt and depression, and are looking forward to a productive and drug-free life.

Call today to speak to a trained Narconon Intake Counselor today and find what you need to help a heroin or opiate addict. Ask about all the details of the full Narconon program. You will discover there is a real solution to heroin addiction and recovery is possible.

This can be disheartening and very frustrating for both the alcoholic and his family. Many trips to rehab with the most sincere of intentions to try to get sober may not work.

So how does one evaluate what program will work for an individual? If you were to ask each rehab program what their success rate is, and how it is determined you might find out some surprising facts. One program may judge that the number of people who complete the given program is a success, even if that person begins drinking again right after the program is done. Others may claim sobriety among their completions, but have with little or no follow up to verify this sobriety over the long-term after the program has been completed. Ask how they determine their sobriety rate when interviewing any alcohol rehab program. One should determine if there is a post-treatment monitoring program in place, without which the success rate simply is not valid.

At Narconon drug and alcohol rehab centers around the world, the success rate is based on follow up interviews on all completions for two years after completing the full program. This standardized program is the same in all fifty locations around the globe, so when the Narconon program states its success rate as 70% worldwide, that is truly an average rate of success (some centers boast as high as 85%) for all Narconon completions around the world. Seven out of ten graduates really do find lasting sobriety by doing the full Narconon program without having to go to Narconon meetings.

With some families, they have been through many different rehab programs before finding any success. When one does find a Narconon program, hope is restored since for seven of ten graduates, they return to their families to stay sober and living a drug-free productive life.

As anyone who has dealt with the problem of alcoholism knows, it can exist for quite a while before the alcoholic might seek and find treatment. It is possible that because alcohol is a legal substance (at least for those 21 years or older). But, this can be a drawback too, as the alcoholic’s family may tolerate the problem longer, and may not realize the need for alcohol addiction rehab treatment for some time.

It is stressful and difficult at times to try to help someone recover from alcohol or any addiction. There are dangers to face, including injury or overdosing, even with alcohol. The people who most need the help may be most resistant to receiving help. And when you as a loving family member reach out to try to help your loved one, your care and love may be misinterpreted as trying to interfere in the other’s life, and be resented and rejected. At this point, it may require a trained Intake Counselor to help inform the addicted person of Narconon’s unique and lasting way out of the cycle of addiction. For forty-five years in fifty locations around the world, Narconon has been helping people to get sober and drug free, even some who didn’t feel they needed to have help. But, over many years, many people have been helped and their individual situations have been resolved, much to the relief and joy of their families.

If you feel you or a loved one needs alcohol treatment, call Narconon today. You can find out all the details of the Narconon program and find the locations nearest you. Making that call can help you feel better, knowing you are doing something positive to combat the problem and help someone who needs help, even if it is you!

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On the other hand, hydrocodone is a very commonly abused drug. As it is addictive, it sends many people who have abused it to drug rehabs for recovery.

Despite the concerns of regulators and those who care for those who become addicted, Zohydro is in clinical trials and it set to hit the pain-relief market in 2013.

There are three other pharmaceutical companies who are developing new all-hydrocodone formulas: Teva Pharmaceuticals in Israel, Purdue Pharma that also manufactures OxyContin, and Egalet in Denmark. These other companies are working on formulations that contain deterrents to abusing or tampering with the pills, for example, crushing or dissolving them. The Zogenix formulation does not contain any deterrents.

Will Narconon Centers See More People Needing Drug Rehab?

Hydrocodone is addictive, but the large dosage of acetaminophen that now is included in current formulations is not. This means that anyone taking or abusing the upcoming Zohydro is going to be getting a higher dose of addictive material with every dose. Will this mean that more people are going to be seeking help at Narconon drug and alcohol rehabilitation centers across the US?

Already, as many as half the new arrivals at some Narconon centers are seeking help for addiction to pain relievers and other prescription drugs. In 2009, it was estimated that more than 23 million Americans had abused hydrocodone at some point. More than 86,000 needed assistance at an emergency room after they had abused this drug. As an opiate, hydrocodone suppresses a person’s respiration. As it is frequently abused along with alcohol which also suppresses respiration, this can present a threat of death when both drugs work together stop a person’s breathing.

Lasting Recovery is an Essential Part of Curtailing This Epidemic

According to reports from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), about one in three people admitted to addiction treatment in 2010 were being admitted for the first time. The other two were going back to rehab because they did not manage to stay sober. Effective rehabilitation that results in lasting sobriety is needed to fight this epidemic of substance abuse and addiction.

But many drug rehabs do not profess to eliminate addiction. Instead, they quote success rates of somewhere around 20% and explain that relapse is part of recovery. So the family may not be surprised when their loved one begins to abuse drugs once again. The success of the Narconon drug recovery program means that families do not need to experience this “revolving door” of addiction treatment.

Instead, Narconon centers monitor their graduates for a two year period and find that 70% of them stay sober after they get home. This means that even if the threat of addiction stays high because of these new hydrocodone formulations coming on the market, families can find effective help for their loved ones who may become trapped after abusing pain relievers for a short period – or a long one.

Call the Narconon International office to get more information about the Narconon drug rehabilitation program.

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Even young cocaine users can have symptoms like those of a heart attack, sometimes making diagnosis difficult, since doctors are more accustomed to seeing these in older patients.

Another factor is the accumulation of plaque in the arteries (known as atherosclerosis), that causes the arteries to become less supple, making blood flow more difficult and sometimes leading to heart attacks or strokes. The heart can also become enlarged, thicker or stiffer than it should be due to this greater inflexibility of the blood vessels.

This makes cocaine a very dangerous drug when it comes to one’s cardiovascular health. However, there is usually far more damage done to the cocaine abuser’s life than only the physical injury to his body.

An addict to any substance has become so preoccupied or consumed with the need for more and more drugs that he cannot usually see what damage he may be doing to his own life, his loved ones, his career or his home. His decision-making seems to have shifted onto how to get his next fix or the next one after that and so on. His loss of self-esteem and ideals make his life very difficult to face so that more abuse of the drug is the only way he finds escape.

The cost of drug abuse can also contribute to a financial downward spin leading one to quickly lose control of his finances when so much money is consumed in the high-cost powder form, or in rocks such as crack cocaine.

It is fortunate that even chronic cocaine addiction can be reversed with effective drug rehabilitation. Narconon drug and alcohol rehabilitation offers a drugless, holistic approach to rehab that really works. The Narconon drug rehab program is so effective that seven of ten of its graduates over the past four decades have remained drug free and sober at least two years following program completion.

This unique program includes the Narconon New Life Detoxification Program, which helps to reduce or eliminate drug cravings. An individual enrolled in the Narconon program is closely supervised during the period of drug withdrawal and then is overseen during daily moderate exercise, while receiving excellent nutrition and plenty of nutritional supplements, as well as spending time in a dry-heat sauna. This strict regimen continues until the person is freed of the harmful residues of drugs in his body, allowing one to feel clean again, and see the world unclouded by drug shadows. In addition to fewer cravings, one usually recovers a brighter viewpoint and more energy after completing this part of the program.

The Narconon program continues with essential life skills training enabling the former addict to recover his own personal integrity, self-esteem and moral values. He will learn how to make drug-free decisions and to choose people in his life who will be supportive of a drug-free lifestyle.

It is fully possible to regain a healthy outlook and love for life that had seemed long-gone. The recovery process is only complete when one has charted a course for his future that is productive, drug free and one he will be happy to maintain.
In more than fifty locations around the world, Narconon is helping to create lasting recovery from cocaine and other drug addictions every day.

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