Physical Health and Addiction
What a Drug Rehab Should Have: Learning Healthy Choices
Long-term abuse of drugs or alcohol has severe consequences on a person’s health. For example, with long-term alcohol use, irreversible damage can occur with the nervous system, heart, and liver. With methamphetamine, brain damage occurs with long-term use and the brain may not fully recover even after two years of abstinence. One study showed a higher incidence of Parkinson’s disease among past meth users. Other drugs are just as devastating to an addict’s health and well-being.
Effective and Lasting Recovery includes Learning Healthy Choices
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration has published information which states that recovering from substance abuse issues means not only abstaining from the use of illicit drugs, alcohol and non-prescribed medications but also being able to make informed and healthy choices which will support the person’s physical and emotional well-being.
In order to overcome addiction and find lasting recovery, an addict must learn the life skills necessary to make drug-free choices. As well as learning to live drug-free, the recovering addict needs tools that enable him (or her) to care his physical health as well as his mind and spirit.
Narconon Puts a Recovering Addict on the Right Path with Holistic Approach
The Narconon program focuses on nutrition as an important facet of recovering from addiction. Drugs abuse takes its toll on a person’s body and building a person up physically through good nutrition, supplements and exercise is a vital component.
A person must also learn to make healthy choices in the future. A series of unique life skills courses are provided at the Narconon drug and alcohol rehabilitation program. These courses give a recovering addict the information and tools necessary to make the right choices. The student gains back control of his life and can choose the right path to take to live happily and healthily.
Garret was an addict who found Narconon before it was too late. He said, “I had gotten to a point where I had thrown everything away. I ended up on the street, sleeping in garages in the middle of the winter, begging for cups of coffee at the McDonald’s. My relationships were in a shambles. I had no self-worth.” He said that he would wake up in the mornings and think that this was the day he would die.
He knew he needed help and appealed to his family who got him to Narconon. Once he had gone through the entire program and had the effective life skills training under his belt, he said, “There is a 180-degree change in my life. I have food in my fridge. I wake up every morning and I actually feel good about myself. I see all the small things in life that are wonderful. I just relish things in day-to-day living. It’s awesome to be alive, to be myself again.”
The Narconon program provides the life skills needed that can help the graduate of the program deal with the challenges and stresses of life, and he can make healthy decisions, take care of himself and thrive.
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