Offering New Hampshire a Solution to Drug Addiction
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It only takes one graph to reveal New Hampshire’s monumental struggle with opioids: Admissions to addition treatment 2002-2014. The proportion of admissions to drug and alcohol rehab in New Hampshire for alcohol steadily drop. Heroin admissions rocket up while admissions due to painkiller addiction surpass those for marijuana, methamphetamine or cocaine. As of 2014, there were more admissions for heroin alone than for alcohol and if you add all opioids together, this category is far and away number one.
While that was bad enough, when fentanyl arrived the next year, things got much worse. In 2015, more than twice as much fentanyl was seized in the state as heroin—but fentanyl is ten to twenty times stronger than heroin. So a kilogram of fentanyl provides a high for far more people than a kilo of heroin. But because of the incredible potency, overdosing is very easy.
The fentanyl that arrived at this time was an illicitly manufactured drug. Earlier, the only fentanyl being misused had been obtained by theft from a medical facility or by processing the minute amounts of drug left in a painkilling patch removed from a patient. This new fentanyl trafficked from China or Mexico created a problem at a whole new order of magnitude.
Between 2010 and 2013, the state averaged only 16 fentanyl deaths per year. By 2015, these deaths had increased 1629%. By some reports, heroin comes into New Hampshire from New York but fentanyl is trafficked in from nearby Lawrence, Massachusetts.
Polydrug Use Kills
In most cases of a drug-related death, there are multiple drugs in the person’s body. In one analysis of 136 deaths from fentanyl-related deaths, these individuals had an average of three drugs in their bodies, often another opioid, marijuana or cocaine. Only 12% of these overdose victims had consumed just one drug.
A coroner does his best job to determine which drug was key in causing the person’s death. But in some cases, it is simply the combined toxicity that is too heavy for the person to survive.
Many More Need Effective Drug and Alcohol Rehab Programs
Of course, over and above those who succumb to overdoses, there are thousands more who struggle every day. Gradually, they lose their relationships, their careers, their homes and self-respect. Guilt piles up on them because they know they are harming themselves and their families. Most of them are committing crimes every day to keep the addiction going. They don’t know how to break out of this pattern so most of them, most of the time, tell themselves they don’t care.
Even from this desperate situation, it is possible to return to a bright, productive life. For more than fifty years, the Narconon drug rehab program has been guiding those who barely care if they wake up tomorrow back to a responsible, productive life. It doesn’t happen overnight. in fact, it rarely happens in the 28 days of many short-term rehabs. A person needs the time to get all the drugs out of their system and then to gradually recover from the horror they have been through for years or even decades. And then they must restore their own sober living skills. This is exactly the path of the Narconon drug rehab program.
This is a drug-free program from start to finish. We do not base our counseling on group meetings. Instead, we educate each person on the basic principles of successful living and then help them put these principles to use. A person graduates from this program when he has regained the ability to protect his (or her) own sobriety, despite upsets and challenges.
The First Step
Before a person on the Narconon rehab program begins life skills training, he completes the Drug-Free Withdrawal and the New Life Detoxification. This is each person’s first step to their new, drug-free life.
After years of drinking or drug abuse, any person has toxic residues stored in his body. As long as they remain, they can affect mood and outlook and have been shown to influence a person’s cravings for more drugs.
On the New Life Detoxification, he exercises moderately to get the blood moving and takes a strictly controlled regimen of nutritional supplements designed to support detoxification. And he spends time in a low-heat sauna, exiting to cool off when needed.
The combination of nutrition, exercise and sauna activates the body’s ability to flush out toxins stored in fatty tissues. Day by day, these residues are washed out as the person sweats in the sauna. At the end, many people say their outlooks are brighter and that they have more energy. Some people also say their physical cravings are gone.
Without the advantage of this deep detox, a person may expend huge amounts of his energy just trying to deal with cravings every hour of every day.
Brightening Perceptions and Lessons in Remaining Sober
One of the effects of heavy drug use or drinking is a dulling of perceptions. Life looks dim and gray to this person and he is likely to break or lose things because he doesn’t see them very well. It’s hard for him to make the right decisions in life because his need for drugs is always driving him. It’s like the need for drugs is making his choices for him. This dependence is broken on the objectives.
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The objectives consists of a precise series of exercises that put a person back in control. He is guided to a sharper perception of his environment. Little by little, he learns that he can make his own choices. Life begins to look brighter and his emotions come much more under his control as well.
With this improvement under his belt, he is ready to start learning sober living skills. He learns how to tell the difference between a social personality and an antisocial one – the kind that got him into trouble with drugs in years past. He learns how to deal with both types as well. This offers him more stability in the future.
Then he studies the basic principles related to personal integrity, how it is lost and, most important, how it can be regained. When his sense of self-respect returns to him, it is an enormous relief. Now he realizes he deserves the chance to enjoy his sober life.
Finally, he learns how to rebuild and resolve areas that were damaged by his years spent addicted. When he finishes this lesson, he knows how to overcome obstacles and upsets that might otherwise cause him to be tempted by drugs again.
Help is Available
There’s few states struggling more with a burden of addiction and overdose – and few fighting back so hard. For the person in New Hampshire, rehabilitation at a Narconon drug rehab can be obtained a short flight away in Florida. For the person who wants a little more space between him and his old drug-using friends, Narconon rehabs are also available in Oklahoma, Colorado, California and Louisiana.
To make your choice, call Narconon International at 1-800-775-8750 today.
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