How to Recover from Heroin Addiction
Finding out that a loved one has been using and is addicted to heroin is a terrible moment for any parent, sibling or other family member. Just as tragic is the fact that many heroin addicts go through rehab after rehab without finding stable recovery. That is the reason for the rise of the many other alternatives to actual recovery from heroin addiction. These programs go a certain way down the road of helping a heroin addict achieve a better life but many stop short of helping them achieve a drug-free life.
There are programs in Europe, the US, and Canada that provide heroin addicts with medical supervision so if they overdose on heroin, they can be stabilized. There are clean needle programs intended to halt the spread of disease through shared needles. And there are programs in Europe – and being considered elsewhere – that distribute pharmaceutical heroin to addicts who have failed at every other treatment option. Certainly, the addict leads a somewhat healthier life and does not have to resort to crime to finance their drug habit but neither do they enjoy a drug-free life.
When the option of a fully drug-free life exists and can be obtained for the person needing heroin recovery, that is the greatest gift of all. At Narconon drug and alcohol rehabilitation centers on six continents around the world, individuals have been recovering from heroin and other drug addiction for over fifty years.
How Does the Narconon Program Help Heroin Addicts?
The reason the program works is that there is an understanding of the key factors of addiction that keep driving the addicted person back into drug use. These three factors are cravings, depression and guilt. When cravings, depression, and guilt are lifted, a person has a much easier time staying drug-free for the long term.
The Narconon recovery program includes an intensive sauna detoxification step that utilizes very specific nutritional supplements and moderate exercise. In this closely supervised program, each person has the chance to flush out old toxins of heroin use that have proven to be involved in the triggering of cravings. Sometimes even after years of living sober, the right circumstances can trigger those old cravings, particularly when drug residues get activated into the bloodstream once again. But after the Narconon New Life Detoxification, those completing it say that their drug cravings are greatly reduced or gone. This is key to recovery from opiate cravings.
After this, a person seeking heroin recovery must also be helped to remedy the depression and guilt suffered by every addicted person. Every addict has done acts he or she knew were harmful if only to themselves, and guilt results. Then just the physical fact of withdrawal from heroin can trigger severe depression. The nutritional support that starts the day a person walks into a Narconon program and the thorough life skills components address and improve both of these factors.
By the end of the rehab program at a Narconon facility, graduates have experienced a great relief from guilt and look forward to a drug-free life with interest. There is no necessity for any of the substitute medications used by so many other programs because addiction has been overcome.
If you are seeking help for a heroin or opioid addict and want more information about the Narconon program, contact us today. Get all your questions answered. You will see that this is a more complete solution to heroin recovery.