Help Your Loved One Get Back in Control of His Life
When a person is using addictive drugs like prescription opiates, heroin, alcohol, even inhalants, he loses control of his life. Instead, the substance starts to control the person’s life. His (or her) cravings for a drink, a needle or a pill are in control. When addiction is in full force, these physical and mental cravings overwhelm every other interest in life.
His career, his education, his family - these all take a back seat. Even his or her morals decay, often to the point that crime or prostitution may be used to get the drugs that are so desperately needed. When a person starts to come off these drugs, the cravings can be so strong as to make him feel crazy. The only thing that makes the pain, sickness and despair go away is getting more drugs.
This is one of the primary ways that a person stays locked in addiction. This is one of the ways that addiction takes control away from the individual. All the dreams and goals of the past are lost to the overwhelming power of the drugs or drink.
How the Addict Can Get His Own Power Back
The Narconon recovery philosophy focuses on building a person’s ability to successfully handle his own life. So no one in a Narconon rehab center is ever told that he is powerless. He is instead taught that he can be in control and then he is taught the skills he needs to stay in control.
“I came to view narcotic usage as a disability. A person would use narcotics because of other things he was not able to do in life, whether it might be an inability to communicate or an inability to start something and take it to its finish…
“As Narconon was set up, we concentrated right from the start on…increasing a person’s abilities in communication, in handling things that he started, in confronting things in life. We found that if a person were just able to perceive something in this universe, then really face it, and then resolve it the way he wanted it resolved, why then one of the by-products of this was that his narcotic addiction would just drop by the wayside.”
Narconon Graduate Finds that Rehab Provides Empowerment
Dustin completed the Narconon program in Texas. About his recovery at Narconon, he said, “They teach you at other places that you are powerless. You are taught, ‘If I slip up, it’s not my fault because I am powerless…’
“The tools and knowledge that I gained at Narconon are very empowering. It is a lot of power when you know what to do. I started being a lot more honest. I changed back to the person I was before I started lying. Now, the best word to describe the way I feel is ‘awakened.’ When I wake up in the morning, I don’t have to rely on something to make me feel good. That’s what I love most about being sober.”
Learn how the Narconon program can put your loved one back in control of his (or her) life in just a few months.
