Drugs and addiction steal away a person’s hopes and dreams. Substance abuse destroys families, and strikes at the very core of our society and its future survival. Artists who fall prey to substance abuse, and cease to envision and create their art-form, leave our culture and society poorer and plainer. This is the story of how the Mother of an artist got her son back when he overcame his addiction at Narconon Arrowhead.
A Mother’s Story
Her name is Wendy, and this is her story; and the story of her son–an artist.
When her son was doing drugs, she says, it pulled the whole family down.
And it pulls a person down in such a way that prevents you from moving forward in your life. It causes parents and family to be worried all the time. Is the police officer going to come? Are you going to get a phone call from the hospital?
She says that worry, and those kinds of questions are constantly on your mind, even though you might think everything is okay. You go to work every day, she says. You carry on your life. But the constant worry is always in the back of your mind.
This is a person whom you love, she says. And you want them to do well in their life.
Wendy says her son is a performer. He is a singer and a dancer. Before drugs, he had a wonderful personality. He loved everybody, and was always thinking of other people.
Drugs changed that. He only thought about himself. He stole from his parents. He stole from his sister. He took his Mother’s car out. “It was constant worry about what was happening”, says Wendy.
Since he was five years old, her son wanted to be an artist. He wanted to perform.
It was his life’s aspiration. Was he going to make it? Was he going to live long enough to see his own dreams actually come true?
He did perform, she says. But when he started drugs, he lost that drive, altogether. Wendy says he no longer did any of it. And before drugs, that is that’s all his life had been.
His Mother says, “Drugs destroyed him. They took away his artistic ability.”
When he did do a competition, and he could not remember the words to the songs, he stopped doing anything as an artist.
Restoration of an Artist
Halfway through the Narconon program at Narconon Arrowhead, Wendy noticed her son was speaking differently. He was saying things differently. It was clearer. And her son was more polite, and more caring.
It was incredible, she says, and she could see these changes in her son happening.
She started getting phone calls that he was writing music—and performing. Wendy was elated!
Because, she says, her son was back now—the one who she had lost when he was 12, when he started doing drugs.
This, Wendy says, is what the Narconon Arrowhead program has given back. It has given back her son’s life. It has given back his drive and his purpose for what he wants to do.
“It feels like a weight has been lifted off the whole family. It’s incredible.”
Wendy share that she actually knows she can trust her son now. They talk together, and they are friends again.
She has told him how happy she is, saying “Oh my goodness, I’ve got my friend back!” And her son says he is so happy that he and his Mother can talk again, too. There’s a truth there, she says.
Wendy wants the reader to know that the person who is her son is back, and full of life, and vitality.
“The family is just gonna rock, now!”
