Kate’s drug history started at a brutally early age. Her parents were both addicted to crack cocaine, and even though her father got off the drug, she and her mom started using marijuana and cocaine together when Kate was just 13 years old.

The next couple of years were a destructive run of using LSD, cocaine, crack cocaine, methamphetamine and Ecstasy. Her mom got herself clean but Kate was then hanging out with older kids. By her freshman year in high school, Kate studied at home because she wasn’t able to deal with going to school.

She stumbled onto opiates when she was 16, and that was it for her. Opiates became her constant drug of choice. About this time, she realized that she was, in fact, addicted to drugs. She didn’t any longer have a choice in whether or not she used drugs. She was driven to use the drugs over and over again.

She made the discovery by deciding to stop using Oxycontin. She became violently sick. Her family and her boyfriend helped her find a rehab in Florida but it was so ineffective that she began using opiates again as soon as she left the rehab.

Now her life really began to spiral down. She began stealing money from her family and suffered constant depression. More trips to rehab resulted in psychiatric diagnoses and prescriptions for addictive medications – and failure as soon as she was out on her own again. It seemed like her life became a constant round of getting drugs, starting to kick drugs, going to find more drugs and getting high, around and around again.

While she was waiting for yet another rehab bed to open up, Kate bought a package of Opana, a prescription opiate, and gave some to her mom who was recovering from surgery. Anticipating going into rehab the next day, Kate went out with her friends. When she returned home, her mother had died of an overdose. She’d lost friends to suicides and overdoses before but this was something entirely different.

The guilt and depression drove her to new levels of addiction and angry abuse of those around her. But when a neighbor told her he had been clean for 15 years after completing the program at Narconon Arrowhead, she decided this was her chance to get clean.

It wasn’t easy for her to get through each step of the program, but she did the work and got the result. “I knew I wanted this, I knew it was my last chance to get sober. I gave the program everything I had,” she said. Because of her heartfelt decision to get her life back, the program worked for her.

“The communication skills I learned helped me so much, because I have always been so uncomfortable with myself,” she added. “I felt so proud of myself when I learned to communicate well with others. And after the sauna program, I felt amazing. My dad came out to see me when I finished this step, he couldn’t believe how positive I had become.”

Step by step, Kate left the past behind and built a new sober future for herself. In a visit after completion of the program, her father realized how far she had come and that she was a totally different person. Her sister came to her for advice which she never would have done before. The pride her family takes in Kate now is a glowing testimonial to the changes she made at Narconon of Oklahoma.

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