Drug Rehab for Kansas — the True Heartland of America
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Kansas is in the exact center of the lower 48 American states and its people still hold onto traditional American values of family, friendship, church and community. Those values and the integrity of its communities are being badly eroded by escalating drug abuse throughout the state.
The citizens of this state struggled for years with a severe methamphetamine problem that began this erosion. There’s still meth being seized in various parts of the states but previously, the seizures were often small, from home meth labs. Now seizures are larger and the drugs are coming from Mexico. What’s worse is that methamphetamine is only one of several serious drug problems in Kansas.
The good people of Kansas need and deserve access to a rehab program that returns the brightness of life to someone who so desperately needs it.
Nearby, a Fully Drug-Free Rehab Program
Just a short drive across the border in Oklahoma, there’s a different kind of drug rehab – one that uses no drugs whatsoever. It’s Narconon Arrowhead, located about 90 miles south of Tulsa. Here, the emphasis is on rehabilitation, not treatment. What that means is that the Narconon program focuses on repairing the damage done by addiction and restoring a person’s ability to enjoy a productive, sober life.
Instead of drugs, this rehab program uses generous nutritional support and one-on-one work with the staff to ease a person through withdrawal. The next step is a thorough, sauna-based detoxification that washes away old drug residues that became lodged in the person’s body each time they drank or used drugs. Imagine the relief when old traces of heroin, marijuana, cocaine or alcohol are finally flushed out of the person’s system. Many people say that they sleep better, have better energy, think more clearly and even have fewer cravings.
Now that a person has a brighter outlook, he (or she) can begin to learn to enjoy life and make the right decisions to maintain sobriety. Sometimes a person started drinking or using drugs so early, the ability to make sober choices must be developed in a person for the first time. He must learn basic skills like communicating effectively and not running away from problems or challenges.
Sobriety also requires a person to learn how to develop and maintain healthy relationships and maintaining integrity. He will also learn a unique procedure for achieving relief from the guilt every addicted person struggles with. Many people say that this relief is like a huge weight being lifted from them. With new life skills and relief from guilt, the future looks brighter and lasting sobriety looks much more achievable.
Multiple Drug Problems Plague Kansas
Drug problems in the state are aggravated these days by their neighboring state, Colorado. Kansas State Troopers are kept busy finding and seizing multi-pound loads of marijuana purchased in Colorado and destined for Eastern states. Edibles, oils and butters made from cannabis are also popular. Sherman Country borders on Colorado and has only 6,000 residents. Despite its modest population, in 2014, police and troopers arrested 529 people transporting or possessing marijuana.
The top drug sending people to rehab in Kansas is alcohol but, not surprisingly, the drug in second place in marijuana. In the last several years, marijuana admissions have been increasing while alcohol admissions have been decreasing. Already, there are more treatment admissions from marijuana and methamphetamine combined than alcohol. One day, marijuana may be number one.
Major Distribution Hubs on Either Side
Oklahoma City on one side and Kansas City on the other are major hubs for the distribution of all kinds of drugs. Trafficking channels from Mexico either come up though the Dallas/Fort Worth area or they come via the Interstates in tractor-trailers from Southern California.
Missouri to the east presents a different kind of drug problem. Whereas once Florida was known as a place where it was easy to obtain prescription drugs to abuse or sell, it seems that Missouri may be following in Florida’s footsteps. As late as 2017, Missouri was the only state to not have a prescription drug monitoring program of any kind. This means that it’s harder to tell which residents are going to multiple doctors to get pills. One news report described the increasing number of Missouri of “pain clinics” like those that used to exist in Florida before that state changed its laws. Of course, it only takes a few hours to run into Missouri and return to Kansas with a supply of pills.
Wherever prescription drugs are easy to get, heroin follows because a person addicted to painkillers will switch to heroin when his money runs out. And overdoses follow the presence of either of these drugs. According to a 2015 report from Kansas City police, heroin seizures increased 324% in a single year.
While the overall rate of drug use among Kansas youth runs lower than the national average, one study found that youth overdose deaths quadrupled between 2001 and 2013.
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Treatment in Kansas
Like any other state, Kansas tries to care for its residents who are addicted. There are fewer than ten locations where a person can obtain methadone in treatment for opiate addiction, but there are more than 80 doctors who are distributing the newer treatment drug, buprenorphine, often brand-named Suboxone. The problem with these types of treatment is that a person does not actually recover from addiction – he (or she) is still subjected to the effects of a synthetic opiate drug.
He does not get to wake up fully drug-free each morning. Some doctors administering methadone or buprenorphine have no intention of weaning a person off these drugs but recommend that they stay on them as “maintenance drugs.” At Narconon, we only have one purpose and that is to enable a person to live a productive, enjoyable life that is free from alcohol or drug abuse of any kind. This has been our purpose for more than 50 years. In Oklahoma, Louisiana, Michigan and many other locations, we help the addicted reclaim the sober lives they lost when drugs took over.
Narconon Arrowhead in Canadian, Oklahoma accepts those from all over the Midwest and indeed, even the United States. Get all the details today on this alternative to conventional drug treatment programs. To learn more about Narconon Arrowhead or to find a Narconon rehab center in another area, call Narconon International at 1-800-775-8750 today.
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