Narconon Gave Me the Ability to Deal With Life

I was born in a military-based hospital in Virginia, USA, my father being in the air force at the time.

I had a very normal and happy upbringing, playing sports and graduating from high school. I had amazing parents who were very active in my life. My father coached me in baseball (my favorite sport) and also ran the Club Scout pack that I was in.

I was thinking of joining the air force when I finished high school, but got a temporary job working as a DJ in a nightclub, and that was my downfall. I got in with the wrong people and as well as drinking, started using speed, then cocaine then crack cocaine which was my drug of choice when addiction took over my life.

I became very distant from my family, who I had always been very close to, trying to hide the fact that I was doing drugs. I hung around with people I called friends at the time, who I came to realize were not really my friends and not interested in my well-being.

Then one day my wife left me and as I was sitting in my apartment despondent and doing crack, my new puppy ran into the room, jumped up on my lap and just looked at me as if to say “what are you doing to yourself?”.

At that point, I acknowledged to myself that I was destroying my life and had to change. I called my parents and told them I was addicted to drugs and needed help. Coincidentally (or maybe not so coincidentally) my parents were watching The Montel Williams Show which that day was featuring Narconon Chilocco, a drug rehab center in Oklahoma. My father came to get me, my mother put me on the phone to the Director of Narconon Chilocco and 24 hours later I was on my way there. My life was about to change.

I was initially scared to death as I did not know what to expect, but I was met at the airport and taken to the Narconon Center and from the beginning the staff were amazing. They understood what I was going through and treated me as a friend, never talking down to me. I went through the program and graduated, and even stayed on for a while after the program helping others arrive and get started. To me it was like one big family.

My father told me later that this was the best investment he ever made as they got their boy back.

Going through the program my goal was to start over and to make my life a success. I joined the military and even told my recruiter that I was at a point in my life that I wanted to start over and take my life in a new direction.

And I did just that.

I was in the military from 1996 to 2000, then moved back to New Mexico where I met my wife who I have been with for 14 years.

“Drug use is just something that happened in my past and has never been a factor since. I can talk about it with others with never a thought of using drugs or fear of relapsing.”

What I learned in Narconon gave me the ability to deal with life. Drug use is just something that happened in my past and has never been a factor since. I can talk about it with others with never a thought of using drugs or fear of relapsing.

I am able to enjoy life, to recognize what is important and what is not, and to have a great relationship with my wife, my family and God.

So my advice to others who are addicted to drugs is this: Make that call. You are not going to handle this alone and you are not in it alone. There are people who have been through it and who will help. Make the call.

Glenn S., Narconon Graduate