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 Information
for Families
Why does someone take drugs in the first place? Some
basic information for parents and friends.
No one wants to be a drug addict or alcoholic, but this doesn’t stop
people from getting addicted.
The most
commonly asked question is simply... how? How could my son, daughter,
father, sister or brother become a liar, a thief, someone who cannot be
trusted. How could this happen? And why won’t they stop?
The first
thing you must understand is that alcohol and addictive drugs are all
painkillers. They chemically kill physical or emotional pain and alter
the mind’s perception of reality. They make people numb.
Drug
addiction always begins with a problem, a discomfort or some form of
emotional or physical pain. For whatever reasons, the person does not
have the ability or tools to resolve these problems. They can’t see any
relief or resolution.
The person
tries drugs or alcohol. The drugs appear to solve the problem and, for a
while, can hide the pain, unhappiness or discomfort. Excessive or
continued use of habit-forming drugs leads to addiction where the person
loses the ability to control his drug usage and ignores the consequences
of his actions.
The person
will sacifice his personal integrity, his relationships with friends and
family, his job, his home, his savings and anything else he may have in
a desperate attempt to get more drugs. The addict is now stuck in a
vicious descending spiral; a life of dishonesty, and all too often,
crime.
When a person
decides to get off drugs they need help and understanding from their
friends and family. The right support can make all the difference.
Many people
come to us because their families cared enough to find out about
Narconon in the first place.
Here’s a
letter written by a mother. She tells our story so much better than we
can.
Yes,
it did cost money... about the same cost as the funeral she was heading
for.
Drugs don't just affect the drug taker, but everyone connected to them.
I watched in pain and powerless despair, as my once-beautiful,
sensitive, intelligent daughter turned into a desperate, emaciated
wreck, grimly surviving by resorting to undesirable means to pay for the
drugs that were killing, not only her, but also a part of me.
Our family
had occasional glimpses of hope, when she began various programs to try
to break free from the vicious hold of heroin. None were effective, and
each time they failed, the slide back into the hell of drugs left us all
feeling more hopeless, helpless and lost than before.
My mother,
provided a ray of hope. She found, in her local newspaper, a picture of
a happy mother and daughter and read their success story with the
Narconon Program. It took my daughter three months, eviction, and a
near-jail sentence to break through her drug-blurred reality and agree
to try this new hope, and it was the happiest day for me, in the ten
years of her drug-taking history, when she stepped onto that plane!
Yes, it did
cost money, about the same cost as the funeral that she was heading
for... but it was the best money I have ever spent.
My daughter
has now graduated from the program... a strong, aware, happy, healthy,
competent, able young woman, ready to take her place in the world. I
sincerely hope that my story will encourage other families to get their
sons and daughters into Narconon, and to trust that there is a way that
really works!
[A letter from
the mother of one of our students]
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