Drug Rehab Help for North Dakota
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North Dakota is in a difficult predicament. On one hand, the discovery of the Bakken oil patch has provided thousands of jobs and a huge influx of cash into the state. On the other hand, where there is money, drug dealers will show up with their wares. As one North Dakota law enforcement officer explained, ninety percent of the people coming to North Dakota for jobs are good people; the other ten percent are the problem. But the community and even the larger region suffer right along with that ten percent.
Oilfield workers are on the job for long hours and the work is hard. Methamphetamine can look appealing to a person who is having trouble keeping up. And it’s a fairly cheap drug. But meth can over simply take over a person’s life. The user loses ground morally, physically and mentally. Meth use breeds aggressiveness and paranoia—fights with coworkers or bosses may follow. When the job is lost due to arguments, fights or accidents, the future can turn into a dwindling spiral for the meth user.
These days, the meth coming into North Dakota is mostly brought up from Mexico. In years past, it was often cooked in small local labs. Law enforcement action and changes in legislation drove these labs out of business. Mexican drug cartels began setting up their own Superlabs capable of producing high quantities of methamphetamine. It began to be shipped to North Dakota to be distributed by the many new arrivals to the state. Recently, heroin has begun to be trafficked right along with it.
Crime Follows Drugs
Law enforcement agencies in North Dakota are overwhelmed with the greater need for police services. In addition to trying to locate and prosecute drug traffickers and dealers, police must try to revive those who have overdosed on heroin or methamphetamine and solve crimes committed by those desperate to get their hands on more drugs.
In one tiny city 30 miles from one of the drilling sites, calls for police service jumped astronomically. There were just 41 calls for help in 2006 and in 2011, there were nearly 4,000. Assaults no longer consist of a couple of fellows having a fight in a parking lot after too much to drink. Now, those trafficking drugs are heavily armed and may simply deal with their problems with a deadly assault with a weapon or a vehicle.
Social services agencies are also overwhelmed. In Grand Forks, requests for social services rose from 17 in July 2013 to 198 requests in December 2015.
Effective Drug Rehab Must be Available
When a person realizes he is losing everything to his (or her) addiction, it’s one of the loneliest times in a person’s entire life. He has ruined his relationships and usually lost all jobs, businesses or careers. His hope is gone and his health is going fast. If there were children, they have usually gone to other family members by this point. Despite this misery, even this person can recover the brightness of life on the Narconon drug rehab program.
When a person arrives at a Narconon center they begin with the drug-free withdrawal phase. This is begun only after any medically required step down is completed with the medical detox services we work with. The drug-free withdrawal at Narconon then uses a generous amount of nutritional supplements specifically designed to help with deficiencies created by drug and alcohol use, along with special techniques to help alleviate the pain and discomforts associated with withdrawal.
Further Detoxification to Fully Address Long-term Effects of Drugs
When methamphetamine, alcohol, heroin or any drug is used, the body goes right to work to eliminate these toxic substances. The original drug is broken apart so it can be harmlessly eliminated. Not all of the drug makes it out of the body, however. Residues from this process remain lodged in fatty tissue where it is harder to get contaminants washed away. The New Life Detoxification—the first step of the Narconon rehab program—is a solution to this problem of lodged residues.
On this special detoxification step, each person spends time in a low-heat sauna, exercises moderately and takes a very strict and supervised regimen of nutritional supplements. This combination activates the body’s ability to flush out these toxins. What results from this detox? A brighter outlook, clearer thinking plus many people talk about how their cravings are reduced or even gone. This prepares a person to succeed in the remainder of this program.
Out of the Past and Into the Present
Once detoxification is complete, the next step is the objectives. This consists of a series of actions that gradually draws a persons attention from the past and brighten their ability to perceive the current environment. The pain, loss, and fear of addiction is in one’s past and can restrict one’s choices and decisions. When the current environment becomes brighter and more vivid, it is easier to make one’s choices based on factors in the present, not in the past.
Gaining an Education on Sobriety
If a person were to go home after this detox, she would not be prepared for the challenges that come up in everyday life. For the past years or even decades, she has solved upsets and challenges by finding a substance to abuse. Now she has to build the skills to enable her to make sober choices, no matter what.
These vital skills are taught on the Narconon drug rehab program. She first learns how to differentiate between those who would wish her harm and those who have her best interests at heart. After all, trusting the wrong people is part of what led her down the road to addiction earlier.
Then she learns the basic principles of integrity and honesty—qualities that preserve one’s self-respect. She also learns how she can shed her guilt and pain and find true, heartfelt relief from the harm she has done to others. This is a deeply healing moment that enables her to begin to look forward to an enjoyable life in the future.
Finally, she will learn how to recognize when a situation needs to be repaired and how to approach it. When she knows how to overcome an obstacle or repair a relationship, she is greatly strengthened in her sobriety. If something goes wrong, she has a solution that does not involve a drink, a pill or other drug.
She will put these lessons to use while she’s still at the Narconon center and they will be invaluable when she gets home and starts rebuilding relationships with family and friends.
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Offering the People of North Dakota a Path Back to Sobriety
With the multiple layers of drug trafficking and use going on in the state, it’s vital that North Dakotans have choices for drug rehabilitation programs. After all, the people in this state are struggling with multiple serious drug use situations.
Adding to these problems is the recent legalization of marijuana for a limited number of medical conditions. Whether that is good or bad remains to be seen—North Dakota already had a higher-than-average proportion of people seeking rehab for addiction to pot. Helping people back to sober lives—no matter what drug they were using—has been the job of Narconon for more than 50 years.
For those in North Dakota, the Narconon center in Albion, Michigan is the closest facility to offer this effective solution to addiction. A short flight south would bring one to the large Narconon facility near McAlester, Oklahoma. There’s other choices in Colorado, Texas, California, Nevada, Louisiana and Florida.
Wherever you might choose to go for drug rehabilitation, don’t wait a single day. Call Narconon to reserve your place and start on the road back to a productive, enjoyable sobriety.
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