Heroin and Cocaine Addict for 7 Years

I had been a hardcore Heroin and Cocaine addict for 7 years before I took control of my life at the Narconon Drug Rehab Program. Continue...

Overcoming Barriers with Narconon Drug Rehab

In 1973 Jeannie Trahant was the first female graduate of the Narconon drug and alcohol rehabilitation program. Over the last 36 years, a productive, ethical and drug-free member of society Continue...

legally, Emotionally, and Physically in Shambles

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A Sons Drug Addiction

If youÓ²e reading this testimonial, then you already know the pain and heartache of drug addiction. Our world stopped one summer evening when our son admitted his drug addiction. Continue...

Sober Now for 31 Years.

At that point I was also homeless, 42 yrs old, and had been using drugs for 27 years since I was 15 years old. Continue...

Tired, Ashamed, Then Reborn

After awhile I began to actually enjoy myself, IN DRUG REHAB, enjoy myself. I started to reemerge as the person I knew before drugs ever became a part of my life. Continue...

Adult Drug Treatment

Happiness after adult drug treatment

The last step in the last course of the Narconon Freedom Center adult drug treatment helps the student learn all the moral and ethical points that they will encounter after graduation. Drug addiction and alcoholism often casts a shadow over basic morality and simple ethics. This course teaches that it is possible to live life with morality and a positive ethics. Productivity, security, and virtue in life are the products of this final step to graduation. By helping the student learn why it is beneficial to live this way, they become motivated and enabled to move forward without the need for drugs or alcohol.

Communication, Perception, and the adult drug treatment Center

The difference between a drug addicts perception and actual reality can often be skewed greatly due to their drug addiction or addiction to alcohol. There reality has been constructed in their mind during their times of intoxication. When they become sober they realize that their lives are not what it was when they were using. This often causes severe depression, confusion, and a feeling of helplessness. To eliminate these feelings, and reconstruct their fabricated perception of life, the drug addict again turns to their addiction. This is an extended, two-part course of our adult drug treatment designed to directly address this cycle.

What Clients Must Achieve

Clients must achieve the following where their behavior is concerned if they have any hope of successfully recovering from their drug addiction and being successful at our adult drug treatment:
  • Since their addiction to drugs did not happen all at once and took possibly years to develop, they have to realize that their recovery process will not occur overnight.
  • They need to be accountable and needs to accept the responsibility of their actions as well as the consequences which result from the drug addiction.
  • The client has to follow specific instructions given to them by one of our licensed staff members and adhere to specific guidelines while they are going through the treatment and recovery process.

Marijuana

Marijuana has many effects on the brain and may lead to drug treatment. When someone smokes marijuana, THC rapidly passes from the lungs into the bloodstream, which carries the chemical to organs throughout the body, including the brain. This THC, which is the main ingredient chemical in the drug is hallucinatory and can be habit forming. The way it works is that the membranes of certain nerve cells in the brain contain protein receptors that bind to the THC. Once this happens, the THC kicks off a series of reactions that ultimately lead to the high that users experience when they smoke marijuana.

Factors involved with drug addiction

As was mentioned in the prior section, behavioral disorders or psychological issues are what drug addiction typically stems from. However, and to more specific, we have found that there can be a variety of factors behind the individual’s addiction, such as:
  • availability of the substance
  • cost of the addiction (usually this is not a significant once the addiction has become severe enough as the addict will stop at nothing to get high)
  • perceived lack of possible negative consequences
  • social acceptability
  • Additionally, the individual’s brain is qualitatively altered because of the addiction. So it becomes necessary to not only treat the physical consequences of the addiction, but the emotional and mental attributes as well. Remember that drug addiction affects the individual on all three levels.

    Understanding drug addiction

    One of the primary aspects that oftentimes go overlooked by many rehab centers is that they do not investigate what is behind the individual’s drug addiction. In order to understand the addiction and treat it successfully, you have to understand what the psychological issues are that triggered the addictive behavior. In the US today, alcohol and drug addiction typically results from the onset of behavioral disorders or depression. We have long realized that you have to find out the cause of the addiction if you are going to treat it properly and if the client is going to experience a successful recovery. Many drug addiction counselors and other medical professionals feel that alcohol and/or drug addiction is a disease of the brain and views this as an allergy to the body. Past research has led to this conclusion as it is frequently referred to as either a chronic, primary, progressive, or relapsing type of disease. Additionally, individuals are extremely reluctant to admit that they do have a problem and then go on to seek adult drug treatment in order to heal from it.

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