Minnesota Residents Need Effective Routes Back from Addiction
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Imagine you’re walking down a suburban street lined with pleasant houses. You notice that one has a purple ribbon around a porch column. You don’t think much of it until you see another house on the next block displaying a purple ribbon. Around the corner, there’s another. What’s the meaning of these ribbons? If you’re in Minneapolis, it indicates that these homes stock naloxone, the opioid reversal drug.
That’s a sign of how hard the heroin epidemic is hitting this region. In an attempt to save lives, these families let others in their neighborhoods know where go if an overdose strikes. When naloxone is administered, it can bring a person back from an otherwise deadly overdose.
In Minnesota as with many other states, the heroin problem started with the over-prescription of painkillers. Aggressive marketing in the mid-1990s convinced doctors that painkillers were not likely to cause addiction and so they should be used to alleviate all kinds of pain, not just severe pain that could not be relieved any other way. When the pills were given for weeks or months, many people became addicted and began to struggle with an urgent need for more drugs, every day and every night. When money ran out or doctors refused to give more pills out, these people often turned to heroin.
In Response, Heroin Overdoses Climb Rapidly
In 2008, there were only a minimal number of heroin overdose deaths in the whole state—ten or less. By 2014, the number was more than 100. By the numbers, most of those dying were white, in their 40s or 50s, and male. But the rate of deaths was much higher among Native American and African-American populations. Native Americans died at a rate five times that of white Minnesotans.
A report from Minneapolis Public Radio noted that across the country, the number of deaths resulting from all types of opioids including painkillers and heroin increased 355% between 1999 and 2014. In Minnesota, the deaths increased 531%, from 60 to 319.
In 2017, the danger of using opioids hit a whole new order of magnitude when carfentanil was found in drug supplies. This is a drug only approved for use with large animals—think elephants. In a human, a fatal dose of carfentanil is the size of two grains of salt. Law enforcement personnel who might encounter the drug must wear hazardous materials suits to deal with this deadly substance.
Narconon Offers a Drug-Free Solution
When a person is trapped in the daily use of any drug, there must be a way to return to sobriety. At some drug rehab centers, the idea of recovery includes the administration of other drugs. In other words, to get a person off the drug they were addicted to, they are given a new drug. For opioids, the latest drug is Suboxone which is addictive like heroin and painkillers are. For alcoholism, the drug given might be disulfiram with its potential to cause liver damage.
At Narconon, recovery is always 100% drug-free. Instead of medications, we support our clients with nutritional supplements that help calm symptoms during withdrawal. Again during the New Life Detoxification, nutritional supplements are used—along with moderate daily exercise and time in a low-heat sauna—to enable a body to flush out old, stored drug toxins. These toxins have been shown to stay in the body for years after drug use stops. Washing these residual drugs away with the sweat produced in a sauna gives a formerly-addicted person a fresh new outlook. Many people say their cravings are much reduced or are even gone.
Then it is time for each person to learn how to maintain their new sobriety. The transformation starts with the objectives—a series of procedures that bring a person out of the past and into the present. Gradually, day by day, these procedures freshen a person’s perceptions of the present. He regains control over his actions, emotions and decisions.
Teaching New Like Skills While In Drug Rehab
The final improvement gained at a Narconon drug rehab consists of the most important skills a person needs to make the right choices to stay sober. A person needs to know how to choose the right people for business associates and friends, ones that will support his sobriety and success. He needs to know how he lost his own self-respect and how he can restore it and maintain it. He also needs to understand how to deal with difficulties in life. When he knows how to solve problems and overcome barriers, he won’t be blindsided by setbacks in life and will not desire drugs to hide from the decisions he must make.
With these skills in hand, a person is greatly protected from relapse.
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Heroin and Painkillers Are Not the Only Drugs Harming Minnesotans
While opioids are in the headline, alcohol is actually Minnesota’s primary drug problem. Alcohol is, by far, the top drug sending people to rehab. It’s estimated that every year, the cost of alcohol-related illnesses, accidents and other incidents comes to $5.06 billion. That’s seventeen times the amount collected in tax revenues. Each person in Minnesota bears the cost of this excessive drinking. And that is only the dollar cost – a high cost in human pain and death goes along with excessive drinking.
Minnesotans have also are subjected to high levels of synthetic drug distribution and use. In one case, a 17-year old girl died hours after ingesting a synthetic drug called 25i-NBOMe. Five teens were arrested and charged in her death.
The only safety is in sobriety. For more than fifty years, Narconon drug rehab centers have been helping the addicted recover a lasting sobriety. Tens of thousands of individuals and their families have benefited from this 100% drug-free path back to living and productivity. From Minnesota, families might select the Narconon center in Albion, Michigan, the one in Southeastern Oklahoma or one in Colorado Springs. There are other choices in Florida, California or Louisiana. Call today to learn how soon someone you care about can walk through our doors and start on the road to recovery.
Call Narconon at 1-800-775-8750 today.
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