According to Narconon: Never Too Late To Seek Out Drug Rehabilitation

After a 30 year addiction, one man explains how Narconon gave him a renewed outlook on life.

Mike, a Narconon graduate from 2001, spent most of his life struggling with an addiction to alcohol.  “I had lost so many great career opportunities and close relationships to drug addiction,” said Mike. “I was 48 years old and felt like I had wasted my life chasing the false high of drugs and alcohol.”

After 30 years of drug addiction, with little hope for the future, Mike decided to seek out treatment through a drug rehabilitation program called Narconon Arrowhead.
“Upon arrival at Narconon, I was given immediate help and assistance,” explained Mike. “The staff and the therapy techniques made the withdraw experience virtually painless.”

Narconon Arrowhead uses a totally drug-free method of withdrawal. During withdrawal the individual will cease substance abuse and begin treatment with minimal discomfort through proper nutrition, vitamins, and treatments from the trained withdrawal specialist.

“On the sauna detoxification program, I was able to get decades of stored drugs and toxins fully out of my system, while restoring the nutritional balances vital to a drug free and happy life,” said Mike. “I literally felt 20 years younger after completing this part of the program, and the physical cravings were gone.”

The Narconon New Life Detoxification Program as delivered at Narconon Arrowhead is backed by scientific studies showing drugs are eliminated during the program. Results from these studies show that the New Life Detoxification Program releases these toxins from the stored fat and safely removes the toxins from the body, resulting in an increase in mental clarity, improved physical health, and an elimination of the physical side of drug cravings.

“The rest of the program addressed all emotional damage and depression that came from the drug and alcohol abuse,” explained Mike. “Narconon gave me actual tools to use in my everyday life, helping me actually go for and reach my new found goals without drugs and alcohol.”

The long term, residential drug and alcohol rehabilitation program has been successfully rehabilitating addicts since the 1960’s.  With a 70% success rate for permanent sobriety, Narconon has proven to be successful in rehabilitating those struggling with drug or alcohol addiction and specializes in handling the full extent of all types of drug and alcohol addictions.

“I have been drug and alcohol free for almost 10 years now, and I can honestly say I have never once had the urge to return to the life of drinking and abusing drugs,” said Mike.

“No matter how hopeless it may seem and no matter how many times you have already tried to get and stay clean, there is hope and there is a workable solution.  There is a whole world out there waiting for you, full of life, joy, happiness, and fulfillment.”

After completing the Narconon Program, Mike trained to become a Certified Chemical Dependency Counselor, helping others to get the Narconon technology which saved his life.

For more information on the Narconon program or to help someone who is struggling with an addiction, contact Narconon Arrowhead today at 800-468-6933.

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Study Finds Psychological Deterioration in Drug Abusers

A new study from researchers at Spain’s University of Granada has found that drug abusers have difficulty identifying negative emotions (such as anger, disgust, fear, and sadness) by their facial expressions. In addition, the study found that regular abuse of alcohol, marijuana, and cocaine usually affects the users’ fluency and decision-making. Cocaine abuse is associated with changes in inhibition, and marijuana and cocaine use negatively affects work memory and reasoning.

For the study, the researchers performed a neuropsychological evaluation with 123 polysybstance abusers (those who abuse different types of drugs) and 67 non-drug users from similar social and demographic backgrounds. The polysubstance abusers mostly abused cocaine, marijuana, heroin, alcohol, MDMA, and methamphetamine, and were enrolled in two drug rehab programs (Proyecto Hombre and Cortijo Buenos Aires) in Granada.

The study found that 70 percent of drug abusers had some type of neuropsychological deterioration, regardless of the type of drug they used. Deterioration was found in working memory, fluency, flexibility, planning, multitasking, and interference.

This study is the first to study psychological deterioration in drug abusers who are enrolled in drug rehabilitation programs. Although previous studies have looked at emotional recognition by drug users, those studies focused on recognition as a unit process. The current study analyzed the relation between drug abuse and recognition of basic emotions such as happiness, fear, sadness, and surprise.

Lead author María José Fernández Serrano, along with professors Miguel Pérez García and Antonio Javier Verdejo García, of the Department of Personality and Psychological Treatment and Evaluation at the University of Granada, said she thinks that the study’s results could help develop policies aimed at promoting drug rehab programs that have been adapted to the neuropsychological profile of drug abusers.

Source: Science Daily, Drug-Abusers Have Difficulty to Recognize Negative Emotions as Wrath, Fear and Sadness, Study Finds, February 3, 2011

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Drug Addiction Starts During Teen Years

Two new studies involving laboratory animals indicate that adolescence is a crucial time to develop drug addictions, because adults react differently to drugs than youngsters.

The first study was from Beckman Institute at the University of Illinois. Dr. Justin Rhodes and his colleagues found that adolescent mice were less sensitive to the effects of cocaine and methamphetamine than adults. The adults showed more increases in locomotion, but the drugs had little to no effect on the "teenagers." Dr. Rhodes was unsure why this occurred.

Dr. Rhodes said that a young person’s first experiment with cocaine and methamphetamines may be extremely mild, which in turn would increase the likelihood of his or her using drugs again.

"If you have a strong reaction to something, then you are less likely to do it again," Dr. Rhodes said.

This study appears in the journal Neuroscience.

The second study was from the University of Valencia. Dr. Jose Minarro found that mice given ecstasy and cocaine during adolescence developed a vulnerability to them in adulthood. The control group of mice that had not been exposed to drugs in adolescence had less vulnerability.

"Adolescence is a critical stage during which time drug consumption affects plastic cerebral processes in ways that cause changes that persist right through adulthood," according to Dr. Minarro in a report published in the journal Addiction Biology.
 

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