Effective Drug Rehab Solutions for Virginia

In November 2016, Virginia’s Health Commissioner Marissa Levine announced a public health emergency due to the growing crisis of opioid addiction. In her announcement, she noted that emergency room visits for heroin overdoses for the period January-September 2016 were 89% higher than the same time period in 2015. She also noted that fatal drug overdoses had become the number one kind of unnatural death in the state. Not only had fentanyl been found in to be a major factor in these overdose deaths, but the far more powerful drug carfentanil had also turned up in drug supplies.

As a result of this declaration, the opioid antidote naloxone could be purchased by any Virginian rather than their needing a prescription. Doctors in the state were also urged to utilize the state’s online Prescription Drug Monitoring Program to ensure their patients were not seeing more than one doctor to obtain medications they could abuse.

Taking Drugs Off the Street

Northern Virginia, the areas around Richmond, Norfolk and Roanoke have all been included in the Washington/Baltimore High-Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (W/B HIDTA). Seven counties in Southwestern Virginia are incorporated into the Appalachian High-Intensity Drug Trafficking Area. These designations allow for additional manpower and funding to be allocated to fight the problems in these areas with the most intense drug trafficking and use situations. The most frequently seized drug in the W/B HIDTA is heroin, with 850 seizures of this drug in 2015. There were 6,000 pounds of marijuana seized.

The biggest threats in both HIDTA areas were heroin, cocaine, and prescription drugs diverted from legitimate use. What prescription drug misusers may not realize is that the pills they are consuming could be fentanyl or other drugs colored and pressed to look like authentic pills. Unscrupulous pharmaceutical companies in China and other Asian countries are happy to take orders over the internet and ship these counterfeit supplies into the United States.

Bringing the Addicted Back to Life

For five decades, the Narconon drug rehab program has offered a drug-free choice to families around the world. For some who arrive at our doors, it’s the first time they have ever gone to rehab. For others, it could be the second, fifth or tenth time. Many people tell us they did not find the answer they needed in an earlier rehab. Now looking for something totally different, they finally find what they are looking for at Narconon.

Other than a medically assisted step down that may be done as a prerequisite at a medical detox center, there are no substitute medications given as part of the Narconon program. Anyone needing medication for a physical condition would, of course, continue that medication on the advice of his physician. When a person begins the first step of the Narconon program, which is the drug-free withdrawal, he or she is well-supported through with generous nutritional supplementation that eases the discomfort of that process. Gentle physical exercises calm the body’s response to detoxing drugs and other activities help a person re-orient to their current safe surroundings. All these actions help make withdrawal a relatively tolerable, positive process.

Real Recovery

Truly recovering from addiction means that the harm drugs have done should be repaired. The New Life Detoxification goes a long way to helping lift the dark mood and unclear thinking of a person in recovery. By combining time in a low-heat sauna, a specific regimen of nutritional supplementation and moderate daily exercise, each person’s body is given the help it needs to wash away old, stored drug toxins.

For years or even decades, an addicted person’s body has been unable to clear all the residues of drug use. Lodged in fatty tissues, those residues can still darken one’s outlook. But as these residues are washed away during this special detox, life begins to look brighter and many say their cravings leave them as well.

Recovering Life Skills as Well

Each person needs to learn how to make the right choices to protect sobriety after they go home. After all, life will not stop presenting challenges and there may be setbacks to be coped with.

The first phase of this training is understanding the difference between a trustworthy, social personality and one who hides his dishonorable motives. On his path to addiction, there were antisocial personalities so the recovering person must learn to identify and deal with this type of individual.

Each person will find that as he (or she) descended into addiction, he gave up his integrity along with his happiness. He must recover his self-respect if he is to ever give himself a chance at happiness in the future. He learns how to forgive himself and recover that integrity, to his great relief.

Finally, he needs to know how he can rebuild relationships and resolve other situations in his work or his community. He will learn how to determine the right approach to these problems and the formulas for improving any situation.

With these tools, both he and his sobriety are greatly protected.

Who’s Suffering?

Across the state, it was mostly adults between 25 and 44 who succumbed to opioid overdoses. As these are prime parenting years, the 1,420 drug-related deaths in Virginia in 2016 undoubtedly left many children with only one parent—or none.

While opioids take lives all over the state, in Southwestern Virginia, methamphetamine adds another layer of suffering. This is a rural, poor area and meth—a drug you can cook up yourself if you’re industrious—is making a comeback. In 2009, law enforcement personnel dismantled 28 small, domestic meth labs. Now they are dismantling more than 400 annually.

One analysis of the state’s overdose deaths revealed that of the 1,420 losses in 2016, more than a thousand were caused by opioids. Heroin and illicitly-manufactured fentanyl were the biggest contributors. Only 469 deaths were connected to prescription opioid overdoses.

Ending the Suffering

Those who are addicted need a reliable route out of addiction and back to lasting sobriety. For tens of thousands of people over the last fifty years, the solution has been the Narconon drug rehab program. In Italy, Russian, Sweden, Colombia, Taiwan, Nepal, Turkey, England and other countries, this drug-free rehab program offers help to those addicted to all kinds of illicit drugs, medications or alcohol.

In the United States, there are nine choices for the Narconon program. From Virginia, a person might choose the Louisiana center or the one in Florida. It’s a short flight from Virginia to Michigan to the Narconon center there, or to the one in Oklahoma. There are also choices in Nevada, Texas, Colorado, and California.

When you care for someone who needs help with addiction, don’t wait. Call Narconon International to learn more about this drug-free solution.