The key is to never let an addiction problem go. By the time teenage prescription abuse has gone on for a few years, it may now be a situation of adult addiction instead or the drugs may cause death to the user which is something that cannot be undone.

When it’s just teenage drug abuse, there may be repercussions in terms of lower grades, small crimes like stealing prescriptions from people’s homes or petty theft to be able to buy drugs. When a person becomes addicted, the losses begin to mount up. Marriages may be broken, children may be taken away, all of one’s possessions may be lost. Jail time may result, jobs or businesses may be lost. It’s a much more serious matter.

Addiction Recovery Takes Time Thorough Detoxification And New Life Skills

Sometimes when a person becomes addicted to prescriptions himself or his family may select a short-term rehab program for recovery. There are a few highly motivated people who have not yet lost their basic skills for living who can make a recovery in a short-term program. But when a person has been addicted for years or for decades, it takes much longer to recover the ability to live drug-free. A short term program of 28 or 30 days will not be enough for many people. The success rate of these programs may just be between 20% and 30%.

When addiction has been severe enough for a person to have lost everything or almost everything, then a more methodical, thorough program is needed. That program needs to address the specific types of damage created by addiction. He or she needs to have a way to reduce cravings. There needs to be relief from the guilt and depression that accompany an addictive drug habit. And it would be better if it did not take years to complete.

A year or two is not an unusual length of time for a Therapeutic Community model drug rehab. In this type of rehab, a person lives with other recovering addicts and the peer pressure between them is much of what enables a person to rebuild his value system. But this model of therapy may involve confrontational meetings intended to tear down a person’s resistance to recovery and his realization of his own responsibilities. The other downside, of course, is that such a long period of time must be devoted to this method of recovery.

Narconon Drug Addiction Rehabilitation Offers Another Alternative

The Narconon drug addiction Arrowhead program in Oklahoma offers a viable alternative to these other choices. The usual length of this program is three to six months – each person completes each step at his or her own rate. Even if it takes longer for a person to finish the Narconon program, the cost is the same.

Each person proceeds through this system of recovery, learning the life skills that will enable him to make drug-free decisions, recovering his own self-esteem, refreshing his own sense of morals and values. By the end of the Narconon drug addiction program at Narconon Arrowhead, each person has had the opportunity to build the foundation for a drug-free life. And in seven out of ten cases – one of the best success rates in the field – he or she goes home to remain sober after graduation.

The Narconon network of rehabilitation centers like Narconon California and other locations as well as drug prevention groups are led by the staff and executives at Narconon International in Los Angeles. For more than forty-five years, the Narconon program has been returning sobriety to addicts around the world. Find out how Narconon drug addiction rehab can help someone you love return to sobriety too. Call 1-800-468-6933 today.

References:

http://vancouver.ca/commsvcs/socialplanning/initiatives/alcohol/pdf/TherapeuticCommunity.PDF

Using heroin will give a person a mellow, laid-back feeling. They may look happy but at the same time, dopey and slow. If you ask him or her a question, the answer may be slow in coming.

The heroin user may nod off from time to time and act dreamy while they are awake. Their pupils will be very small.

Some people smoke heroin which can lead to lung irritation and coughing or similar symptoms. A person who injects heroin can develop marks on their skin from the use of the needle, and scars if these points become infected.

One of the most obvious heroin abuse signs is the urgent need to find and use more heroin. This may show up as a sudden disappearance (when they go to get more drugs and smoke or shoot them) or as odd actions taken to acquire the money for drugs. They may sell or pawn items they actually need or there may be valuable items missing from the homes of family or friends. There is no morality when a person needs more heroin. To him or her, heroin is needed as badly as air. The compulsion to use the drug is so strong that any other considerations take a back seat. This is how and why an otherwise honest, upstanding person can lose all self-respect and integrity.

If the addicted person tries to quit using the drug, the heroin abuse signs become very obvious. They will feel like they are severely sick with a terrible case of the flu that goes on and on. They will ache, have muscle spasms, throw up, be unable to sleep and will be agitated and nervous.

Narconon Drug Rehabilitation Provides An Escape From These Miseries

A person addicted to heroin may feel like they have no way out of this situation. That is, until they experience Narconon drug rehabilitation.

At the Narconon Arrowhead drug rehabilitation facility in Oklahoma, it’s routine for heroin addicts to recover their sobriety. In fact, seven out of ten people addicted to ANY drug find lasting sobriety as a result of Narconon drug rehabilitation. This long-term residential program at Narconon Arrowhead has a unique way of walking a person through all the steps of repairing the destruction of heroin addiction and teaching the life skills they need to stay sober.

This goal is not accomplished in 28 days, however. It takes longer than that to bring a person back from the near-dead. But in three to five months for most people, addiction can be conquered.

Narconon drug rehabilitation starts with a tolerable withdrawal process that can give the recovering person hope, right off the bat. Nutritional supplements and gentle relaxation and re-orientation exercises calm the distress of withdrawal. A person can begin to gain hope right here that this experience is going to be different from earlier rehabs.

The Narconon drug rehabilitation experience continues with a thorough sauna-based detoxification. As a result of this detox that uses a low-heat sauna, nutritional supplements and moderate daily exercise, each person flushes out old drug residues, leaving them more able to think clearly and feel free from the severe cravings of their earlier addictions.

When they learn how to recover their own personal integrity, how to avoid dangerous associates who may trigger their old drug habits and many other sober living skills, they can face life without turning to a drug or alcohol for false support.

Find out how the Narconon drug rehabilitation program can help someone you love. Call today: 1-800-468-6933.

References:
http://www.easyread.drugabuse.gov/heroin-addiction-signs.php

With this new type of test, a company can administer a drug test for cocaine, methamphetamine or marijuana with just the use of a fast, inexpensive saliva test. An applicant just holds a cotton swab in his or her mouth for a new minutes and then the swab goes into a detector box. Within minutes, the tester has their positive or negative results.

Before this, a person would have to submit a urine or blood sample for hiring purposes. This is faster, cheaper for the company and less invasive for the applicant. If a positive test result shows up, the company that makes the tests recommends a second, more sophisticated test to rule out a false positive.

But now more than ever, companies need to screen employees for drugs before hiring. Positive test results are on the rise in the workplace. Quest Diagnostics, a company that does employment drug tests, reported that cocaine and amphetamine results are up 8% and nearly 17% respectively, from 2010 to the present.

People Who Can’t Stay Sober

Just looking at the definition of alcoholic or addict can explain what the problem is with staying sober for an employment drug test. Addiction to either drugs or alcohol includes the factor of compulsive use of the substance, despite the harm that is being done. An addict to either alcohol or drugs can’t control their usage. It’s as though the cravings themselves were making the decisions.

Even when it comes to taking care of their children or keeping a job, most addicts who have not yet received help can’t keep themselves from abusing whatever the drug is that they are addicted to. A person standing by and watching this behavior probably can’t understand why they just don’t stop using the drug that is causing so much trouble. But it’s not that simple.

Narconon Drug Rehabilitation Makes It Simple Again

When the cravings have been reduced, when a person’s personal integrity has been restored, when they understand how to solve problems in life without resorting to drug use, then, it can start being simple again. Narconon drug rehabilitation takes a comprehensive approach to resolving addiction.

To result in stable sobriety, a rehab program must address the cravings, the guilt and the depression that are always present in the addict’s life. Without relief from these three factors, sobriety will be a daily battle. But when cravings are relieved, integrity is restored and drug-free decision making skills built, life can be enjoyed once more.

As so many families have discovered, the Narconon drug rehabilitation program helps each addicted person through these three essential types of recovery.

The Narconon New Life Detoxification Program helps greatly, by report of those completing it, with cravings. The combination of time in a sauna, moderate daily exercise and a strict regimen of nutritional supplements helps flush out old stored residues of drug use. These residues have been shown to be involved in the triggering of cravings, even years after drug use stops.

The Personal Values and Integrity Course, part of the life skills component of this rehab program, teaches each person how to recover his or her integrity, and how it was lost in the first place.

And depression tends to lift when a person has goals they truly want to achieve and when they know they have the skills to achieve them.

Narconon drug rehabilitation is available at Narconon Arrowhead, centrally located in Oklahoma, easily reached from every corner of the United States. Call for the entire story on this holistic recovery program. Call 1-800-468-6833 today.

References:

http://www2.tbo.com/news/breaking-news/2012/mar/30/11/spit-test-for-drugs-speeds-hiring-ar-386551/

There are three factors that keep an addict trapped in addiction. They are guilt, cravings and depression. To explain this simply, every addict has committed harmful acts they are ashamed of, even if the only person who was damaged was themselves. In most every case, however, they have done harm to family and children, employers and coworkers, their community and their friends. When addiction is the prevailing motivation and lies and manipulation are the norm, somewhere in their hearts, addicts carry a heavy burden of guilt.

One of the distinguishing characteristics of addiction is the cravings. Some rehab programs cover up cravings with substitute medications or other drugs like benzodiazepines. But if these prescription drugs are discontinued, there is nothing to help the person with the cravings, which might drive him or her right back into drug abuse.

And depression goes hand in hand with guilt and cravings. Every addicted person suffers losses along the way  and these losses can contribute to the addict’s depression. With former goals far out of sight, friends lost, families alienated, it is no surprise that an addict will feel depressed. Add to this the usual terrible lifestyle and diet of an addicted person and you have a recipe for depression. Teenage depression and drug use can involve these same factors.

Which Came First

If a teenager is not particularly depressed but someone influences him or her to start abusing drugs, they may start to give up on earlier goals. In particular, controlled studies show that young people who use marijuana on a regular basis are measurably less motivated than those who do not. They are very likely to withdraw from family and family activities as they hide their drug use. They can definitely manifest signs of depression as a result of drug use. Alternately, their drug use can be caused by anxieties of growing up and unresolved upsets. Some teens who are abusing substances will need rehabilitation in order to restore them to a life they enjoy.

At Narconon Drug Addiction Yields To A Long-Term Holistic Program.

Before rehab, families are understandably anxious about their loved one, fearing an overdose or accident. If a young person is smoking marijuana, they may be concerned about their progressing to a stronger drug or the dangers that exist if they try to drive while stoned.

So the families of many young adults choose Narconon Arrowhead for their rehab, so they can help that person return to the family ready for a sober life.

At Narconon, drug addiction is addressed by repairing the damage that drug use does. This could mean the foggy thinking that results from use of strong drugs or extended drinking or marijuana use, the broken relationships, or the abandoned goals. Each person going through the Narconon Arrowhead drug and alcohol rehabilitation program learns the precise tools for clearing thinking, restoring relationships, and setting new goals. The Narconon New Life Detoxification Program, one phase of the overall recovery, helps each person find a bright new outlook and clearer thinking that helps with goal achievement.

Also at Narconon drug addiction is overcome by the restoration of personal integrity. Without this help, those in recovery may never feel that they deserve to be sober again.

Find out how to help someone you love with the rehab program at Narconon Arrowhead, located near McAlester, Oklahoma. Call 1-800-468-6933 today.

References:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0002486/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15833584
http://www.sentinelsource.com/news/national_world/pot-use-nearly-doubles-risk-of-collisions/article_f0ba1c8d-4ce0-53e3-a39e-f8d9822d8568.html

It might be good to say that abuse of prescription drugs like Ritalin, Oxy Contin and other prescription drugs is holding steady. But in fact, these drugs are addictive and sometimes deadly when just a little too much is taken or when they are mixed with other substances like alcohol. In this case, “steady” means that too many teens are still at serious risk of addiction and even death.

Are we doing enough to prevent adolescent drug abuse? If we were, then we would not have half of our high school seniors trying an illicit drug (or abusing a prescription drug) by the time they graduate.

When there is adolescent drug abuse, it is apparent that they lack the information on the addictive potential of the substances they are abusing, including Ecstasy, heroin, alcohol and even marijuana. According to the Monitoring the Future report on teen drug abuse, drug education of the young has to be done drug by drug as young people do not necessarily carry over the dangers of one kind of drug abuse to other substances. To curtail these increasing numbers, more drug education must be made available to all young people, specifically spelling out the problems with different drugs they may encounter.

Drug Education Or Drug Rehab

Among those going to rehabilitation services, far too many people are under 18 years of age. In 2009, there were more than 155,000 people under 18 in rehabs. The biggest drugs of abuse for this age group were marijuana, alcohol, hallucinogens like LSD and PCP, stimulants (such as Ritalin), and inhalants.

Improving drug education among the young can help reduce the number of young people abusing these drugs and also reduce the numbers who need rehab.

Education to counter prescription pain relievers takes a high priority, as so many people, young and otherwise, who abuse these drugs, get them for free from friends or relatives. Especially among chronic abusers, this method of getting their drugs was fairly common.

In many cases, these drugs are taken without permission from unsecured supplies, for example, pill bottles in the medicine chest or in purses. This is the reason for “Drug Take-Back Days” where law enforcement personnel accept people’s unused prescriptions so they can be destroyed.

It’s estimated that seven million Americans abuse pharmaceutical drugs. Accordingly, the number of overdose deaths just from oxycodone (Oxy Contin) alone has tripled between 2005 and 2010. It’s also estimated that one in seven teenagers abuse prescription drugs.

Narconon Drug Help Assists Many Young Adults to Reclaim Lives

At Narconon Arrowhead, Narconon California and other drug rehab centers that are part of this network, young adults who have derailed their lives with substance abuse are finding that they can get back on track.

At the Narconon Arrowhead facility in Oklahoma, young adults can go through a tolerable drug withdrawal, supported by one-on-one work with the staff and generous nutritional supplementation. The nutrition component of this withdrawal process has proven to help calm the pain and sickness of withdrawal.

Each one then goes through a thorough detoxification process that has been shown to help with cravings, and then learns the life skills they need to make drug-free decisions in the future. When people begin abusing drugs at a young age, they often don’t develop life skills beforehand. So especially in this case, the skills to confront the consequences of one’s own actions, development of personal integrity and other personal growth is necessary to set these young feet on a sober path.

But the Narconon drug help that works for young adults works for anyone in need to rehabilitation. To find out how the Narconon drug help at Arrowhead can help someone you care about, call today to 1-800-468-6933.

References:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/25/usa-healthcare-drugs-idUSL2E8FOG4M20120425
http://monitoringthefuture.org/pubs/monographs/mtf-overview2011.pdf

Why is this? As laws changed in state after state and as prescription monitoring programs were implemented, it became harder to acquire prescription drugs. Some people have resorted to ordering these drugs from internet providers but these drugs, often shipped from overseas, were uncertain as to quality, reliability and even as to whether or not they had the right ingredients.

Other people just went to the streets and found a dealer. Of heroin. This is now being seen in Minneapolis, Seattle, Tennessee, San Diego and Michigan. If the trend continues, it will be seen across the country. In Florida, Kentucky and Tennessee, prescription opiates were heavily abused and so these areas may be heavily hit with the switch to heroin abuse in the future.

Yes, heroin is often adulterated with other substances that can be damaging. These ingredients can clog and damage the liver, kidneys and lungs. And yes, the dosage is completely unpredictable. This can lead to overdoses.

But when opiate addiction drives one mad with cravings, it is more important to calm those cravings than anything else. Or so the addict suffering from opiate addiction feels.  Any opiate is better than no opiate.

Is Methadone A Solution

There are still methadone program out there that provide daily doses of long-lasting methadone, a replacement for heroin or OxyContin. It does help people live lives without crime but the withdrawal from methadone can be far more lengthy and difficult than the withdrawal from heroin.

The better solution is sobriety with a program that enables withdrawal to be tolerable, cravings to be greatly reduced or eliminated and sober life skills to be thoroughly taught.

This is the result of using the Narconon program for recovery from opiate addiction.

Narconon Locations In All Parts Of The U.S. Can Provide Help

Fortunately, there are Narconon locations in every corner of the US. People in Michigan, Florida, California, Texas, Nevada and other states have Narconon locations that help those who are addicted to heroin or any drug. Centrally located is the premier Narconon location near McAlester, Oklahoma. This is the largest Narconon center and is staffed by experienced people who have been delivering this drugless, holistic program for many years, sometimes for decades.

At this beautiful rural location, Narconon Arrowhead helps addicts find freedom from the addictive drugs that imprisoned them. It takes just three to five months for most people to work through all the steps of this program. These steps address the reasons the person first began to use drugs, helps him or her repair the damage, and puts each person through a detoxification process that eliminates residual drugs that become lodged in the fatty tissue of the drug user. Even years later, these residues can help trigger cravings. When they are gone, a person can think more clearly. And those completing this step say their thinking is clearer.

Learn about all the steps of this program that has a 70% success rate, meaning that seven out of ten graduates stay sober once they go home. Don’t delay, call now for Narconon locations at 1-800-468-6933.

References:
http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2012/01/30/heroin-opiate-abuse-in-metro-reach-record-high-levels/
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2011-10-13/pill-mill-drug-trafficking/50896242/1

Ambien (zolpidem) and Sonata are drugs similar to benzodiazepines. They are central nervous system suppressants. Therefore if they are taken at the same time as alcohol, heroin, prescription pain relievers or other substances that suppress the central nervous system, breathing and other processes may be slowed to the point of death.

These drugs are supposed to only be prescribed for a couple of weeks to help a person break a habit of sleeplessness or get through a stressful time. But in too many cases, people are given these drugs for years and continue to take them so as to not experience renewed problems with sleep.

But there are problems with severe side effects for some people and then many if not most people will wind up addicted if they take the pills for months at a time.

For example, some people who take Ambien take actions that they do not remember. They may even drive or operate equipment without knowing they are doing it. They may talk, cook, eat or have sex and not remember it.

Addiction can be a problem, with some people acquiring the drug and abusing it in higher dosages than a doctor would prescribe. Other people may just continue taking it for years, never trying to stop and so never realizing that they are addicted.

Abuse and Addiction Finally Become Obvious

When a person abuses Ambien, they do it for the drug’s ability to create a sedated, hypnotic effect. They may try to quit and then run into withdrawal symptoms which can include suicidal tendencies, according to the State of Connecticut. At this point, it is completely obvious that the person is addicted. Many people need rehab right at this point so they do not abuse this drug, get caught doctor-shopping to get more supplies  of the drug or gravitate to other, stronger, drugs.

If a person has been drinking and then takes Ambien when they go to bed, they risk life-threatening slowing of breathing and other body processes. They may require emergency medical care to prevent damage or death.

Being caught shopping at various doctors to get enough pills to support the addiction or winding up in the emergency room are probably enough to convince a person that it is time to get help.

When addiction presents dangers, Narconon Arrowhead near McAlester, Oklahoma can help. Just like in other Narconon centers like Narconon Georgia and centers in Montreal and Northern California, Narconon Arrowhead centers offer effective rehab to people who are addicted to Ambien or other drugs. This long-term program is holistic, which means it addresses the whole person, the reasons he began abusing drugs and the problems he wished to avoid by doing so. To prevent relapse, the life skills of this person must be strengthened so that when life presents challenges, the person can make the right choice: remaining drug-free. It is not necessarily easy and does not happen overnight. For most people it takes three to five months to learn how to create a life without drug or alcohol abuse. But it can be a short period compared to the resulting lifetime of sobriety.

Narconon reviews by families and those who take the time to look at the whole program verify the stated success rate: seven in ten recover their sobriety for the two-year monitoring period after graduation.

For information on the Narconon program, contact Narconon International at 1-800-775-8750.

References:
http://www.justice.gov/dea/concern/benzodiazepines.html
http://dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/dailymed/archives/fdaDrugInfo.cfm?archiveid=5916

But time after time, we see the wreckage of this industry laid out in front of us when the newspaper headlines announce the death of yet another celebrity to drugs or alcohol or both.

The most recent tragedy was Whitney Houston on February 12, 2012. Her autopsy showed that heart damage related to cocaine abuse contributed to her drowning death. In the prior couple of years, we had also lost Heath Ledger, Michael Jackson, Anna Nicole Smith and Amy Winehouse, all to drug abuse or complications of heavy medical drug use.

In the case of Heath Ledger, his use of multiple drugs intended to help him sleep caused his death. It was a similar problem in a different setting with Michael Jackson.

Earlier than that, it was John Belushi, River Phoenix and Chris Farley who died of a combination of illicit heroin and cocaine. Kurt Cobain died of suicide but famously struggled with heroin addiction before his death. And Elvis is also included on these lists as his heavy abuse of prescription drugs was involved in bringing about his death.

People Trying to Use Drugs to Blank Out Stress Miss The Dangers

The slightest misstep with cocaine, heroin or prescription drugs can trigger heart and central nervous system problems that can result in death. A person can also drink himself or herself to death, as it appeared Amy Winehouse did. They may be unaware of the stress or life situation when they are passed out drunk or nodded off from use of an opioid, but the drugs or alcohol do nothing to solve the problem.

Ultimately, a person will have to learn to deal with the situations and problems that caused them to abuse drugs if they are to remain sober over a long term. This is a major focus in the Narconon Arrowhead drug and alcohol rehabilitation program.

For more than a decade, Narconon Arrowhead has been helping people find lasting recovery from addiction. This is the premier center of the Narconon network, a fifty centers around the world including Narconon California that have been providing recovery services for more than forty-five years. At its country location in southeastern Oklahoma, the Narconon Arrowhead center serves as many as 200 people at a time, helping them find sobriety without the use of any drugs or medications in the treatment program.

Instead, a sauna detoxification program helps each person flush out the residual toxins from past drug use. Life skills classes help prepare a person to make drug-free decisions once they get home. Narconon reviews indicate that it is a comprehensive approach that results in success for 76% of graduates.

Find out how this unique program can help someone you know recover their sobriety and not lose it to later stress or challenge. For more information on Narconon reviews call 800-468-6933 today.

References:

http://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/arh23-1/40-54.pdf
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1109/12/ddhln.01.html

You can see these photos at this website: http://www.facesofmeth.us/main.htm.

These photos provide a little insight into methamphetamine side effects. The reason people use this drug is for the escape, the high – at least at first. The drug is so quickly addictive that the reason for use quickly becomes subduing the awful, driving cravings. This is the case with all the addictive drugs – cocaine and crack cocaine, heroin, prescription painkillers, alcohol, Ecstasy and others but methamphetamine may be a little quicker and more severe than some of the others.

Methamphetamine Does More than Just Damage the Body

Methamphetamine side effects have a profound effect on the person’s mind and behavior. One of the most noticeable effects is that methamphetamine takes over the normal functions of the body, replacing the hormones that the body produces when pleasurable actions are undertaken. After using methamphetamine for awhile, a person very often loses the ability to experience pleasure unless he or she is high. He may fear that life will never again offer pleasures unless he is high. This fear drives further use of the drug.

More than this, methamphetamine often causes delusions, paranoia, hallucinations and violent aggressiveness. Meth users may turn to various types of crime to support their ability to buy the drug, often focusing on identity theft and fraud. They can be dangerous to be around as they may think that someone is spying on them or trying to harm them, due to the paranoia. So they may lash out at someone who is completely innocent of any wrongdoing.

Children of a methamphetamine addict are usually poorly cared for, sometimes are not fed because the meth addict is not hungry. They may be abused and in fact, the meth addict may not even know they are abusing their child because of the delusions and hallucinations. This alone helps qualify methamphetamine as one of the most dangerous addictions of all.

What Makes a Dangerous Addiction?

It is one that takes hold quickly and utterly disables a person from protecting life around them. Methamphetamine falls into this category. Everyone around a methamphetamine addict will be safer as soon as recovery can be achieved.

The Narconon Arrowhead drug and alcohol rehabilitation program helps methamphetamine addicts recover from the destruction and damage of long-term abuse of the drug. An important component of this recovery is the detoxification process at Narconon Arrowhead: the Narconon New Life Detoxification Program. This process uses a moderate-heat sauna, daily exercise and a strict nutritional regimen to activate the body’s ability to flush out residues left behind after methamphetamine use. As these drug residues leave, the recovering addict feels more like his or her old self again. Perceptions clear and attitudes begin to return to normal. The muddy, foggy thinking of the addict clears and he or she can see, think and make decisions again.

After this, Narconon schools each person in life skills that they will need to face life without resorting to drug abuse again. Each person learns to face the past things they have done and gain the ability to face challenges without flinching. They learn communication skills that enable them to deal with people successfully. These and other abilities are all part of gaining the ability to stay sober for the long-term after graduation.

Find out how Narconon can help you or someone you care about. Call Narconon Arrowhead today at 1-800-468-6933 and learn how other methamphetamine addicts have regained their sobriety.

References:

http://www.facesofmeth.us/main.htm
http://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/infofacts/methamphetamine
http://www.justice.gov/dea/pubs/abuse/drug_data_sheets/Methamphetamine.pdf
http://www.nhtsa.gov/people/injury/research/job185drugs/methamphetamine.htm
http://www.mappsd.org/Signs%20%26%20Symptoms.htm

Not only does is PTSD alcohol abuse or drug abuse not a solution to the original problem, it creates new problems which can include addiction. In addition, the National Institute on Drug Abuse has stated that substance abuse helps cause more illness and death among those suffering from a mental condition like this.

People with PTSD are already suffering. It is bad enough when a person suffers from PTSD. The person experiencing PTSD alcohol abuse or drug addiction needs help as soon as possible.

The Family Burden May be Heavy When Addiction is Added to PTSD

Addiction is a very difficult condition to handle at home. For many people, it takes professional guidance to help a person recover from the harm addiction does. A person must have a way to address the cravings that keep him or her trapped in addiction. And with addiction goes guilt and depression. All these factors must be resolved for a person to have a good shot at lasting recovery from addiction.

By finding a residential rehabilitation service, a person can be protected from alcohol abuse while they are in recovery. The person who uses support groups or outpatient programs will continue to encounter stressors, triggers and opportunities to drink. Residential care allows a person to focus on their recovery and have the assistance of professionals around the clock.

But some rehab programs use other drugs to treat the addicted person. Anxiety or depression may cause drugs to be prescribed. In this situation the addicted person does not have a chance to recover their sobriety. The Narconon Arrowhead drug and alcohol rehabilitation program in Oklahoma never uses any drugs as part of treatment. The focus is totally on recovering the ability to live a fully drug-free or alcohol-free life.

Narconon Reviews by Families Show that Seven Out of Ten Graduates Stay Sober

At Narconon Arrowhead, each graduating person is monitored for a two-year period after they go home. The reports of family are used to verify the fact that graduates are doing well and staying sober. Narconon reviews by parents and spouses of graduates show that the program is effective in creating sobriety in seven out of ten cases.

The Narconon program has eight phases that provide workable solutions for the problems created by addiction: cravings, guilt and depression. As each person in recovery learns more about confronting his or her own life and using communication to solve problems; about a common-sense moral code that can guide one’s decisions; about recovering one’s own personal integrity – they gradually recover their ability to enjoy life again. Once again, they can focus on production, goals and future.

The Narconon program is not a solution to PTSD but may give the person who has veered into substance abuse a better shot at being in control of his or her life again.

If you care about someone who is struggling with PTSD, alcohol abuse associated with the condition, or drug abuse and addiction, contact Narconon Arrowhead to find out how this program can help. Call 1-800-468-6933 today for all the details.

References:

http://www.springerlink.com/content/nl871kl7232mrt18/
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/post-traumatic-stress-disorder/DS00246
http://yourlife.usatoday.com/health/story/2012-03-06/PTSD-veterans-prone-to-drug-addiction-get-risky-painkillers/53388510/1
http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/post-traumatic-stress-disorder-ptsd/what-are-the-symptoms-of-ptsd.shtml
http://www.nimh.nih.gov/outreach/alliance/alliance-report-july-2007.pdf