Heroin Addiction Special Interview
The following is an interview with a Narconon graduate from the UK who tells his story of overcoming addiction.
“I was addicted to heroin for 12 years and I found Narconon.
“Narconon basically saved my life. It helped me restore my creativity. It helped me develop as an artist.”
“Narconon basically saved my life. It helped me restore my creativity. It helped me develop as an artist. And it helped me live a better clean life, you know.
“You’re so desperate that you will do anything for anything. And I’ve ended up and I’ve woke up with doctors around me. I’ve OD’ed basically 3 or 4 times. I’ve OD’ed and had to be brought back to life. You just don’t have any respect for yourself to do that. I didn’t have any consideration. I’d wake up in the hospital. I didn’t care. Whatever. They said, “Well you nearly died. You almost died. You could have died.” Whatever. I didn’t even have a consideration at all. Didn’t care. I just wanted to get out of the hospital and get my next fix. And that was it. And that was all that mattered to me. It was what I lived for. It’s what heroin addicts live for.
“The drug problem in the UK, what I experienced, is heroin and coke/cocaine. That seems to be the drug of choice for artists these days. The sauna detox is an amazing part of the program. It rids your body of the toxins that stored up in your fatty tissues over the years through drug abuse and other chemicals that have gotten in there some way. And basically, to keep it short, by the end of the sauna your going to feel like a fresh, newborn baby.
“Now I’m creating music, where when I was on drugs,
I was never able to create music…”
“Now I’m creating music, where when I was on drugs, I was never able to create music. I was always succumbing to the effects of the drugs thinking that drugs were making me a better artist.
“The staff here, they don’t treat you as an addict. They don’t treat you as another number. They actually care. I went to countless number of doctors and countless number of counselors. I was in medical detoxes and all I was doing is pumping my self with all of these poisons and making the problems worse for myself because after my medical detox, I actually got hooked on valium and that was to come off heroin. So now I have a heroin addiction, a methadone addiction and I was also addicted to diazepam. And plus sleeping tablets on top of that. So I had like 4 or 5 different addictions all because I wanted help.
“You know. With Narconon, I loved what I read. I read about it. It said it didn’t use substitute drugs. It used vitamins. That’s how they take people off of drugs. There’s a lot more to it and what they do. I was excited about that. It’s what I needed. It was change. And to tell you the truth, with everything that I’ve tried in the past, it was actually the easiest. It was the easiest withdrawal I’ve ever done. I was coming off methadone, diazepam, and heroin. I live a clean life now. I’m happy. I’m confident. I’m making music. And that’s what I wanted to do. That’s all I ever wanted to do all my life. And without what I’ve learned at Narconon I don’t know how I would have been able to do that. Because it’s given me that confidence in myself to actually be handling this.
“If you know anyone with a drug addiction, get them to Narconon because it saved my life and it saved countless people’s lives.”