Drug Rehab for Idaho

Despite being a relatively remote and rural state, Idaho is in the crosshairs of drug traffickers who want to sell their products. It’s one of the few states that has no law permitting the use of cannabis products, either medically or recreationally. But to the west, three states touching Idaho have all legalized the recreational use of this drug. Marijuana diverted from Oregon is found all over Idaho and there are high levels of cultivation. The country’s largest grow—10,000 marijuana plants—was found near Grace, Idaho in 2012. While there are marijuana arrests all over the state, they are heaviest in Clark County, followed by Boise and Valley Counties.

It was only in 2014 that Idaho began seeing more heroin-related deaths. In many other states, this shift started in 2010-2011, as prescription painkillers began to be reformulated to prevent abuse and statewide monitoring programs made it hard to get enough pills from doctors and pharmacies to maintain an addiction. These changes encouraged people to migrate to the use of heroin. Drug cartels and traffickers obliged by boosting the quantity of this drug brought into the state. Between 2014 and 2015, the amount of heroin seized by law enforcement jumped an astonishing 800%. Statewide, the rate of arrests for heroin increased ten-fold between 2009 and 2015.

Idaho’s Families Need Help

In every state, every country, the hearts of family members are broken when a loved one becomes trapped in addiction. The longer addiction goes on, the more that’s lost—spouse, children, careers, homes and even self-respect. Fortunately, it is possible to rebuild a life that has been shattered by addiction. For more than fifty years, Narconon drug rehab centers across the country and around the world have been offering this life-saving service.

There are those who will claim that an addicted person should be medicated as part of their treatment, sometimes for the rest of their lives. At Narconon, no drugs are ever given because none have ever been needed. Instead, each person goes through a series of therapeutic steps that help him (or her) construct the sober living skills he’ll need to rely on for the rest of his life—instead of needing to rely on medications with their side effects.

Ability to Think More Clearly

Anyone around an addicted person can see that his life must look gray and dim to him and that his thoughts are slow and muddled. This will change as each Narconon client completes the New Life Detoxification. This sauna-based step activates a body’s ability to reach deep into fat cells where old drug residues are lodged and flush them out through the sweat. As time is spent in the sauna each day—supported by moderate exercise and an exact nutritional plan—these toxins are washed away and brighter thinking returns. Many people also talk about how their cravings reduce as toxins leave.

Building a New Skill Set for Sobriety

After going home, there will be many challenges to sobriety. Each person must have the strength to weather changes and setbacks. These skills are built in the remainder of this program.

There are certain lessons that are vital for a recovering person to learn with certainty. These lessons include:

  • How to deal with people whose motivation is actually to harm others
  • How to identify a person of goodwill who will support one’s sobriety
  • What actually causes integrity and self-respect to be destroyed
  • How to find relief from the guilt felt by every person who has been addicted
  • How to preserve one’s self-respect in the future
  • The best way to repair relationships that have been harmed
  • How to restore one’s reputation in the community

All these lessons are taught in the life skills section of this rehab program. What’s more, each lesson must be put to work to improve one’s own attitude and potential. As these repairs take place and self-respect increases, the future begins to look brighter.

There is no set time limit for the Narconon program. Our clients graduate when they have regained the skills they need to preserve sobriety and not before. Still, there is no additional charge if it takes someone longer than the average time period of eight-to-ten-weeks. They continue studying, learning and applying what they learn until they are prepared for a sober life again.

A Checkerboard of Drug Incidents in Idaho

Treasure Valley, in particular, is a source of heroin because Interstate 84 swings through this area. Drug traffickers and distributors love the American Interstate system because it makes their job easier.

In 2016, the Walgreens drugstore chain announced that it would offer the opioid antidote naloxone to Idaho families without requiring a prescription so they could bring a loved one back from an overdose before emergency medical services arrive.

Clark County has an arrest rate four times that of Boise County and more than 20 times that of Elmore County. According to a sheriff’s report for Clark County, there’s almost no crime in the county other than drug crimes.

Nationally, an intense effort to restrict the manufacture, distribution and use of methamphetamine was successful in reducing the numbers of users. Admissions to addiction treatment for methamphetamine dropped as these changes were made. In Idaho, this drug is making an undesirable comeback. Between 2009 and 2015, the number of arrests for meth more than doubled and the number of people admitted to rehab centers for meth addiction keeps creeping up. Meth may not take as many lives but the drug contributes to high levels of property and violent crime wherever it is used.

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In the U.S., there are Narconon facilities in California, Colorado, Texas, Nevada, Louisiana, Florida, Michigan and Oklahoma so availability of a place for your loved one will seldom be an issue.