Drug Rehab for Maryland
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Baltimore has long had a severe problem with heroin. In Baltimore families, the pattern is often multi-generational—grandparents, parents, and children all with the same addictive lifestyle and craving for heroin. Now that opioid abuse is a serious problem in most of the country, the pattern of drug use and addiction in the state has shifted. It is no longer just an inner-city problem among black residents. It is now a statewide problem suffered by all ethnicities.
The number of those affected and the number of lives lost have both been climbing. In 2013, 460 people died from heroin overdoses, an increase of 88% over the 2011 figure. By 2015, the number dying from heroin reached 748. Prescription drugs killed another 351. And by this time, fentanyl had arrived on the scene and began claiming victims. The final number of deaths from all drugs in 2015 totaled 1,259.
This was the second time fentanyl showed up in Maryland’s drug supplies. The first time was back in 2006. At that time, it killed roughly 1,000 people across the Northeast. The supply was tracked to a single large lab in Mexico. The lab was shut down and the number of deaths dropped dramatically. Only a small number of people who could get their hands on medical fentanyl managed to overdose.
Then Asian sources began manufacturing fentanyl or sending precursor chemicals to Mexican labs that would make the drug and bring it into the U.S. Fentanyl supplies quickly spread across the country. Because the drug is so powerful, increased distribution was soon followed by increased deaths.
In 2016, the number of people lost to drugs of any type hit 1,468. Statewide, 86% of all drug deaths are caused by either prescription or illicitly-manufactured opioids. In March 2017, there were 16 opioid overdoses in Anne Arundel County alone. Because of the use of the opioid antidote naloxone, only three of those people died. Statewide, many lives began to be saved with the use of naloxone. But that does not mean that these people recovered from addiction. It only means that they did not die that day.
Narconon Responds to the Need for Drug Rehab in Maryland
Heroin is the #1 drug sending people in Maryland to rehab, followed closely by alcohol and marijuana, which accounts for around 20% of all admissions. Recovery from addiction to heroin or other opioids is difficult for a couple of reasons. The first is the moral decay that accompanies the use of these drugs. The addicted carry a heavy burden of guilt which eventually gives them the sense that they don’t deserve recovery. This is why some people refuse an offer of help. It’s also why bringing in an interventionist who knows how to work their way around this guilt and rekindle the person’s desire to be sober again may be a vital step on the way to recovery.
Also, the intense cravings for more of the drug make it difficult to break free. When a body adapts to the continuous presence of a drug like heroin, cocaine, alcohol and methamphetamine, withdrawal can be very rough and cravings can be intense. The New Life Detoxification of the Narconon program is a great assistance to the person being tormented by cravings.
This detox consists of a strictly controlled regimen of nutritional supplements, moderate daily exercise and closely supervised time in a sauna. These three elements activate a body’s ability to reach deep into the cells and release toxins from past drug abuse. Otherwise, these residual toxins can remain for years, continually affecting one’s thinking and mood.
Completing this step helps each person break free from the worst of the cravings. Their thinking is finally clearer. Their outlook is brighter. Now they can focus on learning the life skills that can enable them to stay sober in the future.
A Roster of Life Skills Training
For a person to resist the lure of drugs in the future, they must know how to cope with life when they are thrown challenges. A person in recovery had the habit in the past of hiding from challenge in drug or alcohol abuse. Now they must learn to stand strong in the face of temptation.
When they ally themselves with people who wish them well, they have a better chance of remaining sober. If they looked in their pasts, they would find people there who didn’t care if they lived or died as long as they bought drugs from them or shared their stash with them. Being fooled into helping these untrustworthy people damaged them in the past and they must learn how to avoid association with them in the future.
They must also find relief from that crushing burden of guilt and recover their own self-respect. And finally, they must learn how to surmount problems and obstacles. In their pasts, being hit with a setback or problem would send them back to drugs.
As they learn these principles and start putting them to use in their lives, they can feel their burdens lift. The future begins to look brighter. They realize they deserve a chance at happiness. That’s the beginning of their new, lasting sobriety.
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Pot and Synthetics also Plague Maryland Residents
There is no shortage of marijuana in the state. Some are trucked in from Mexico but an increasing amount is grown in-state. In 2015, 700 plants were seized from an Eastern Shore growing site. Some industrious growers took over an abandoned property and set up a grow valued at $1.45 million then left a pit bull behind to protect it.
Opioids and marijuana have been joined by Spice—a synthetic drug likely to cause hallucinations, psychosis, and addiction. PCP is another synthetic drug that often causes violence and delusions. In most of the country, use of this drug has dropped but around Washington, D.C., it’s still popular.
There needs to be a safe haven for a person struggling with addiction—for tens of thousands of people, that haven has been Narconon. Since 1966, this organization has been helping the addicted build strong, sober lives.
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