A Mother’s Story of Getting Her Son Back

My son was like any normal person before he started using drugs. He was going to school, working and he would communicate and talk to me about things.

Eventually, I found out that he had been using drugs since he was 15 years old. He was working and one weekend he didn’t come home at all. He had never not come home before – sometimes he was late, but he would still come home.

He started spending his time with friends and wanted to move out of the house, go to a different school and be with his cousin who was doing drugs.

He just seemed different. He quit school and quit his job. He would sometimes work at our family business to get money, then say he was going out to eat but wouldn’t return.

He would stick to himself more, didn’t communicate, or want to participate in family events.

The hardest thing was seeing that he was damaging himself. He was very skinny, started growing a beard, smelled homeless, and stopped caring about his kids and family. He didn’t care about anybody, wouldn’t talk to me and didn’t care to do anything. He didn’t come to Christmas with the family or call on birthdays. I hadn’t seen him for weeks and didn’t know if he was alive or had been eating anything. I knew I had to do something but he didn’t want help.

I found Narconon on Facebook and they said they would send somebody to do an intervention. When it came to it, he was ready to go.

While my son was doing the Narconon program, he started calling every day. He said to me, “I love you,” and that surprised me because he hadn’t told me that since he was in elementary school. He was really talking to me again.

We went to his graduation and I was very happy to see that he was so happy. He was determined to finish the program and he really felt that he had accomplished something.

When he came home, I noticed he was getting up early and was ready to work. I would usually put away his clothes before, but he stopped me and said, “No, this is my responsibility.” He was doing things around the house and helping me.

Our communication is way better than it was before and he is a different person. When he was younger, he would hug and kiss me and now we are cooking dinner together and he hugs me and says “I love you” again.

He is so proud that he can take a drug test now and be clean. For the longest time, he wasn’t able to do that.

“The Narconon program helped him to communicate and the sauna program got the drugs out of his body. He now says that he never wants to touch drugs again.”

The Narconon program helped him to communicate and the sauna program got the drugs out of his body. He now says that he never wants to touch drugs again.

What stood out to me about the staff is that even now, they are still calling to find out how he is doing and keeping in touch.

My advice to anyone with an addicted loved one is don’t give up. You never know when the next program will be the one that gets results. Realize that the person you are dealing with right now is not your kid. He is hidden away, but that kid will eventually come back and be your child again.

Monica, Mother of Narconon Arrowhead Graduate