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A Teenager Confesses How Her Drug Dependence Drove Her Across The Continent In Search Of Heroin, And How Narconon Brought Her Back From The Brink Of Oblivion

For more than 40 years thousands of addicts have been given their life back through Narconon – people who had submitted to their addictions found new hope and a new life.  Indeed, that is how Narconon started four decades ago when an incarcerated heroin addict, William Benitez, decided that he had to try something new to save himself from his addiction as well as to help other similarly afflicted friends. He requested permission from Arizona state prison officials to start a drug rehabilitation program with 20 addict inmates, but was at first denied. Thankfully, he persisted because on February 19, 1966 he was finally granted permission and founded what he called Narconon, meaning NARCotics-NONe.

The program Mr. Benitez founded grew and, in 1971, the first Narconon center outside prison walls opened in Los Angeles. Today Narconon’s services are available at 39 drug rehabilitation and drug prevention centers in Canada, United States, Mexico, Colombia, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, France, Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Holland, England, Russia, New Zealand and South Africa.  It is officially recognized in several countries as the most effective drug rehabilitation available and receives government funding in a number of nations. Narconon has an unsurpassed success rate, according to independent studies, with up to 72 percent of its graduates still off drugs after two years.

She started using drugs as a teenager and rapidly escalated from marijuana to heroin. Within two years she was emotionally dead, not caring about friends or family.

In this interview 26-year old Sabrina Andrews provides her personal testimonial of Narconon’s effectiveness.  She started using drugs as a teenager and rapidly escalated from marijuana to heroin.  Within two years she was emotionally dead, not caring about friends or family.  This is her story, one that gives hope to countless teens who suffer from addiction.  She did the program at Narconon Trois-Rivieres in Quebec, Canada.  And like William Benitez and many others she got her life back.

What were you doing before you did the Narconon drug addiction rehab?
That was 10 years ago: I was about 16 years old and living on the streets.  I ran away from home and was doing drugs.  I lived mostly in Montreal but moved around a lot including Toronto, Calgary and Vancouver.  I lived like this for about two years.  Before that I was going to high school and living with my parents.

When where you first introduced to drugs?
In high school there were many students using drugs, including pot smokers.  I pot with them (I was hanging around older students) but idn’t like the “buzz” at all.  There was also alcohol use but that was not a big item for me.

My idol was the rock band Nirvana and Kurt Cobain (the lead singer) and he was doing heroin.  So to me that was really “cool,” or at least that’s what I thought then.  I admired him a lot and for some reason I adopted the idea that anything negative and destructive was really cool and if you looked horrible, well that was cool too.  In fact it was “aesthetic,” in my viewpoint at the time.  So that’s what I went after.

Were you attracted to drugs from the beginning?
Initially I didn’t want to do any drugs, as my father had already given the “the talk.”  I refused to do drugs mainly out of fear because he had his own drug history – although he was clean since my birth – and I knew that he would be able to spot it.  As there was no way to “get away with it,” I stayed away from drugs.

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