Narconon Marijuana and Alcohol Rehab Reviews – Khallid’s Experience Overcoming Addiction

I mean, I started trying drugs when I was like 13, 14. It didn’t really become, I guess, an addiction until after high school. Until after high school—I started doing music and getting a little bit more popular and meeting more friends. And eventually, I signed my first record deal. And so after signing my first record deal, I guess you could say like my $20 weed problem turned into like a $1,000 weed problem. And then I continued on and, you know, I got another record deal, actually a second record deal and then my $1,000 weed problem turned into like a $5,000 weed problem. And so it just kept escalating and escalating and I kept running into basically myself, my own problems, without knowing.

You’re telling yourself like, “I’m not going to do drugs today” or “I’m not going to drink today, like no matter what. I’m going to go to the gym, I’m going to work out.” Then you’ll have, you’ll see yourself, you’ll be working out and on the treadmill and you’ll have a good day, you’ll get out of the sauna and then you’ll get home and then the next thing you know, it’s like muscle memory. Next thing you know, you’re calling up your drug dealer or you’re smoking weed or you’re drinking it. And it’s like, “How did I get here?”

And also it’s just, you’re just so used to it. Like this is what I do, it’s not even about being sad. You can be happy. I would have good news from like, you know, maybe I got a lot of money from doing a show and I’m still doing drugs and drinking. Or maybe a friend passed away and I’m still doing drugs and drinking. Maybe it’s Saturday and I have nothing to do, and I’m still doing drugs and drinking.

And so, you know, you start noticing it. You start noticing that you’re not eating. You start noticing all these bad things about, you know, and it’s just hard.

I had been up for about like three or four days and I would have those stints where I would just go through times of not being able to sleep. And ironically I was trying to stop on my own.

My dad actually reached out to me after I told him that, you know, I wanted to get a handle on this. I had just had a daughter. And the first person that he mentioned was Fabian and Narconon. And he told me he was there to help me with my problems. And so I ended up leaving with him and rest is history.

And so what Narconon did was bring me up into present time and be able to be comfortable with myself. Be able to be okay with, you know, just having an okay day. I feel like a lot of people think that the road to sobriety once they get there is going to be them hopping through gardens and, you know, being able to have just amazing days every day and that’s just, you know, not a reality.

But for the most part, as long as I’m in control of my environment, as long as I’m able to stay present, which I had never known that I wasn’t able to do. I always thought like, “Oh, the reason why I’m angry is because I was drinking.” Or, “The reason why I don’t like to look people in their eyes ‘cause I’m high.” But what Narconon showed me is once you strip away the drugs and I was, you know, I had nobody to run to to get those drugs, I still would have a little short temper or I still didn’t like to look people in their eyes. And so for them to be able to help me with just the little things, it made such a big difference.

“I think that was the best decision that I’ve ever made
and it set me up for the rest of my life.”

You know, Narconon is amazing. Of course it’s on a good piece of land. But it also, like I said, it just gives people a safe place and it’s provided a safe place for me in order to be able to plot out the rest of my future.

And so I think that was the best decision that I’ve ever made and it set me up for the rest of my life.

Khallid M., Narconon Graduate