Narconon Heroin Rehab Reviews – Craig’s Experience Overcoming Heroin Addiction

So I was 17. I was a junior in high school, little naive kid who didn’t know anything about the world at all. And you get introduced—well, I was smoking weed.

But, just one day I was walking outside and my brother was smoking an oxycodone off of foil and I was like, “All right, let me try that.” And that’s how it starts. It’s that easy.

We were smoking heroin. And then it progressed all the way through that to starting to inject through intravenous. And then it led to crystal meth, trying to stay up because I was working on my car.

And then I started hating the lifestyle of how we were living, like waking up every Tuesday and Thursday waiting for cops to raid the house. They were looking for me and my brother and all the other people who were living at this house, too. Everybody was doing bad stuff.

And we put my mom through a lot, both of us, and I’m trying to repay that still. Bailing us out of jail, you know, the cops breaking down her door.

My sister found—I just went into the bathroom and I left the needle sitting on the counter. And she told my mom. And she’s like, just, “I know you’re doing something. It’s not just oxys. It’s not just something—like, look at you. You’re 115 pounds. You’re withering away. Like, I know something’s wrong.”

But I would have ended up dying like within three months if I didn’t stop and get help. So when my family did the intervention, obviously I sat in a puddle and cried for like five minutes. But then they were like, “Yeah, you’re getting on a plane to Oklahoma and you’re going to Narconon Arrowhead.” I was like, “Okay, sign me up. Let’s go.”

The person who introduced me to what was going on in the program, I sit in the room and they’re like, “All right, cool. You’re going to go through our drug-free withdrawal.” And I was like, “Okay, that’s solid. This is going to suck.” And then they broke down the sauna part and all the courses and everything. They got me to my room. I couldn’t sleep. My withdrawal started to kick in really hard there.

And then, I finally got some sleep, slept for like 14 hours. And then I woke up like a brand new person. I jumped up. I believe his name was Gene—he walked in and he was like, he was like, “Dang, you look good.” Like, I had a smile on my face. I wasn’t dying.

And then it’s not just drugs. It’s everything. You go over everything of why you got to this position that you’re at today and how you’re going to change it afterwards.

It’s a lot more streamlined on how you can handle your emotions, your communicative skills and just being a better person than you were when you were a drug addict, because you were a shitty person. You were definitely doing some bad stuff. And I was hiding it and lying and conniving and just being not the person who I feel that I am. And I recognized that so much when I was at Arrowhead, at Narconon.

“I feel like I’m a better person now from going through that struggle, and then Narconon taught me how to be a better person on the outside.”

And those feelings that get stuffed down and numbed by drugs and everything, the second you start trying to better yourself, that’s when they come back. Then you start feeling like a person again.

I feel like I’m a better person now from going through that struggle, and then Narconon taught me how to be a better person on the outside.

C.S., Narconon Graduate