Client Amy Discusses Narconon Arrowhead Treatment Methods
Most individuals who turn to drug use do so in order to try and escape from their problems. Unfortunately, few individuals recognize the fact that trying to solve their life problems with drug use is like fighting fire with fire – not only incredibly ineffective, but also extremely dangerous. Drug substances create a host of new problems for the individual, including physical, mental and emotional problems that they seek to escape from by taking even more drug substances. Some drug addicts who recognize the truth – that they are completely addicted to drug substances and cannot control their own life – seek help for these problems in the form of rehabilitation treatment. However, if rehabilitation treatment fails them in some way, the individual can come to believe that they have no hope of a healthy, happy and drug-free future. Fortunately, they are very wrong.
The Truth About Effective Rehabilitation
Effective rehabilitation treatment is much, much more than an opportunity for an individual to abstain from drug use for a period of time. In order to truly bring about lasting sobriety, rehabilitation treatment has to help the individual address and resolve all of the causes and effects of their drug use so that they are finally able to break the endless cycle of drug use. This means that the individual will have to break with their past and turn their attention to the present. This also means that the individual will have to start solving the problems they previously sought to suppress or escape from through their drug use.
Different rehabilitation treatment facilities and programs resolve the problems of drug abuse and addiction in different ways, but the bottom line is that treatment is complete when the individual is fully recovered. It can take a long time and a lot of hard work to bring about full recovery, but when it does finally occur the individual is confident and ready for a healthy, happy and productive future.
Amy’s Narconon Experience
Before Amy arrived at Narconon she struggled with an overpowering addiction to cocaine for twenty-seven years. Her entire life revolved around her drug use and was completely out of control. She had lost all of her healthy relationships and everything that had once mattered to her, and she ended up losing her freedom when she was incarcerated for a considerable length of time.
When Amy arrived at Narconon she was ready to make a change in her life. Still, she was a little apprehensive about the possibility of lasting success because she had previously participated in many different rehabilitation treatment programs without successfully ending her relationship with drugs.
Amy was in the withdrawal portion of her program for three or four days. As she was trying to get her own head together she began to notice that everyone around her was friendly, accommodating and caring. They made Amy feel welcomed and comfortable, as though her recovery truly mattered to them. This helped her to feel more confident about her own recovery and future.
The entire Narconon program completely changed Amy’s life for the better. However, the part that she feels did the most for her was the part that helped her come out of her past and enter the present. Amy had been stuck in her past for nearly three decades, feeling guilty, ashamed and angry about the things she’d done and the way she’d treated people, and this is what had kept her trapped in her addiction, driving her to stay high as long and as much as possible. When she reached the part of her Narconon program that helped her become more aware of her present, Amy realized that she didn’t have to be “that” person anymore, and she could feel proud and confident of herself now.
Now that she has completed the Narconon program, Amy is very hopeful about the future. She feels uplifted, confident and focused. She has been able to take back control of her life and re-establish healthy relationships with her family members. She knows that she is strong enough to make her future whatever she wants it to be, no matter what obstacles may rise up along the way.
