Drug Rehab for Arizona: The Tragedies of Addiction
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Fly over Arizona and look at the U.S.-Mexico border area from the sky. You’ll see that most of the border is unpopulated and it’s also mostly unfenced. You can drive for hundreds of miles on the Interstates without running into major cities. This makes Arizona a popular conduit for addictive substances coming into the U.S.
Drug traffickers with dreams of profiting thousands or even millions of dollars try every method imaginable to evade border patrol and customs officials. Tunnels are found underground, catapults, air cannons and drones have delivered drugs to the U.S. through the air. Drugs come through the border checkpoints strapped to people’s bodies and concealed in cars, trucks, horse trailers, motorhomes and even in shipments of mesquite.
In April 2017, 2,600 pounds of marijuana were found tucked into cubbyholes in a motorhome. The pot had a value of more than $1.3 million. In 2016, $1.1 million in methamphetamine was found in a shipment of vegetables from China. There was even $3,000 in methamphetamine packed into tamales carried by a pedestrian. Methamphetamine, oxycodone pills, heroin, cocaine – they all make their way through Arizona. And the trafficking just never seems to stop.
Teaching Arizonans How to Enjoy Life Sober
Not far from Arizona, a Narconon drug rehab centers in California, Colorado or Oklahoma have a time-tested way of helping the addicted build new sober lives. And that’s just the closest one – there are three others within a reasonable travel time.
Helping someone recover from addiction is far more than just cleaning them up and letting them go. If each person does not realize that they feel far better sober than they ever did on drugs, they have no motivation to stay off drugs. If they don’t have the life skills to make all the right decisions, no matter now challenging life is, then they can easily stray back into drug use.
In this residential program without a set time limit, each person has a chance to fully repair those life skills that were demolished during the time they were addicted. When a person began using drugs as a young teen, those life skills were never developed in the first place. After years or even decades of drinking or using drugs, all they know is how to get more drugs or another drink.
Detoxification and Recovery of the Brightness of Life
The Narconon program starts with a drug-free withdrawal, to safely and as rapidly as possible assist the individual to withdraw from drugs. Once completed, the student moves on to the New Life Detoxification – a healthy, deep detox that reaches all the way into fatty tissues to to help draw out old drug residues. Those traces of past drug use could have been lodged in the body for years and had a continuous effect on a person’s mood and thinking all that time. After a few weeks exercising daily, following a strict regimen of nutritional supplements and spending time in a low-heat sauna, drug and alcohol residues are extracted. A person’s mood brightens and his thinking becomes clearer.
With this improvement under his belt, each person is then ready to increase his control of his life, himself and his environment. After all, he had given up control to drugs for the duration of his addiction. On the unique exercises called the objectives, each person gradually recovers his ability to make decisions based on real life circumstances, not fears and compulsions. He learns how to take charge of his actions again. This is a big step forward for the person’s rationality. Most people find that the effects of past trauma begin to fade as well.
Next Stop: Life Skills
Before going home, there’s a few vital skills each person must gain. The first is the ability to identify those people who threaten one’s sobriety. By learning the characteristics of social personalities and anti-social personalities, each person learns how to keep themselves safe and sober in the future. After a study of the principles, each person puts this information to work in straightening up their lives.
Next, each client will learn how they gave up their own integrity and, better yet, how they can recover it and preserve it in the future. These principles are then implemented to provide a profound relief from the guilt each person suffered from immoral actions and life choices.
Finally, it’s time to learn problem-solving and how to make sober choices. There will always be temptation, challenges and triggers. On the final life skills course, a person is strengthened by learning how to overcome obstacles to their success.
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Arizona Does Not Deserve to Suffer Due to its Location
A narcotics officer from the Chandler Police Department described Arizona as a “distribution state” meaning that most of the drugs that come into the state are destined for other markets. In Maricopa County – home to Phoenix, Mesa, Chandler and other suburbs – a county attorney stated that the Sinaloa Cartels uses the area as a distribution hub for their heroin trafficking into the country. While most of the drugs are just passing through, this also means that there’s enough for Arizona residents who have a weakness for the high available from these products.
According to a December 2016 survey, considerably more Arizona youth use cocaine than the national average. Binge alcohol use among 8th, 10th and 12th graders is also considerably higher than average. Nearly 45% of high school seniors report that they have been offered marijuana in the last month, 49% were offered alcohol and 12% were offered prescription drugs.
With a Narconon center nearby in Southern California, and others in Colorado, South Texas and Oklahoma, Arizonans have plenty of choices within reach. When you are looking for recovery help for someone you care about, call Narconon International today at 1-800-775-8750
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