Narconon Of Oklahoma Graduate Talks About Positive Experience At Facility

Stephany was 27 when she finally recovered from her addiction. Her drug use started fifteen years before when she was just twelve years old.

Most of Stephany’s friends at that time were older than she was. Stephany’s mom was a drug user who was willing to share her marijuana with the kids in the neighborhood, including Stephany. Even at this young age, Stephany was dealing with a lot of trauma so the drugs helped her escape.

By fifteen, she was trying methamphetamine. She realized that she really liked the sensation of using that drug so she did a smart thing. She called her grandmother and had her get her out of the environment so she would not use the drug again. That worked until she was nineteen.

At that point, she was supporting her sister, her sister’s two kids and herself by being an exotic dancer. At the same time, she was finishing her high school education. But the school found out about her work and expelled her from school just before she graduated. Distraught, she delved into methamphetamine again. She quickly lost everything – job, family, home. She was moving from house to house, sleeping where she could, seldom eating. She had family members who were making or smuggling in methamphetamine so the drug was always available.

She became unhealthy, her weight dropping to 87 pounds. From time to time, she would get sober for a little while but sobriety was always short-lived. She avoided her family as much as possible, just showing up for a half-hour on holidays and then picking a fight so she had an excuse to leave.

Her family had sobered up by this time and convinced Stephany to go to rehab when she was pregnant. She stayed in the rehab for months after her baby was born. Now she had a reason to stay sober. She started going to church every chance she got, trying to maintain that sobriety.

This success actually continued until she met a man who was a drug user. This was the beginning of a new spiral downwards. She started using methamphetamine again. The new man in her life began to beat her. She began to neglect her daughter, not even feeding her when she was hungry.

She had visited the Narconon Arrowhead facility some years before but never thought she would be able to do the program there. When she found she had a chance for admission into this program, she jumped at it.

At Narconon Arrowhead, she found the withdrawal experience to be much more tolerable than any other time she had gone off the drug. “Before, it was two weeks of craving the drug so bad, I would not even get out of bed. Here, they keep you so active, you don’t get all depressed. The difference was amazing. You stay focused on what’s going on now instead of the terrible things that had gone on before.”

Stephany was surprised to find that she didn’t crave the drug after she got out of the Narconon Arrowhead Withdrawal Unit. “Any other time I’ve been clean in my life, the cravings have been constant. It was just insane the way I lied to myself, I just had to go see if I could find the drug, see if I could get high ‘just once.’ But all that was gone this time.”

When Stephany finished the Narconon New Life Detoxification Program, she said, “They called me the Energizer Bunny. I have never been this active before, never had this much energy before. And by the time I finished the whole program, everything was brighter, I see things more clearly. Now my new life is helping other people recover from addiction so they can provide their own testimonials like mine.”

For more information on the Narconon of Oklahoma facility call 800-468-6933.