Drug Addiction Stories & Info

You might think this title to be odd for a tale, especially one week before Mother’s Day. However this story, brought to you by Narconon Trois-Rivieres, has an happy ending. It shows that the love of a mother is more powerful than addiction.

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The most wonderful thing that has ever happened in my life was born on Oct 17, 2006. She had a head of full, dark hair and the bluest eyes I’d ever seen. I named her Atiya. I’d never known such joy in all my life. Being a single parent was tough, and I had my share of hard times, but she always made me smile. Always. I couldn’t bring myself to go back to work until she was 4 months old. I cried that first day back.

We were so close. We made each other laugh, and her smile was the most beautiful thing I’d ever seen. We loved going to the park, and getting ice cream. She’d say, “we’re buddies, huh mom”. Life was sweet for the two of us until the car accident. A drunk driver clipped us while we drove to the park. I remember waking up and the first thing I said was “Is Atiya Ok?” Thankfully, she was bruised and had a few cuts, but I was able to call my Mother to come get her from the hospital. I had to mend a bit before I went home.

Four days after the accident, I and my cracked rib went home to be with my precious baby. It hurt like hell, but they gave me some Oxycontin for the pain. I couldn’t lift Atiya up, but I could still be with her. Atiya didn’t leave my side for days after I got home. She was like a little mama the way she showed concern. She would even go to the refrigerator and get me a soda. It took a while getting used to the Oxycontin. At first, it made me sleep, but it eased the pain, and in a way, made me feel incredible. After a few days, I didn’t sleep as much, but the pain was so bad, I started taking two pills instead of just one. It felt good to relax and also to have the pain lessened.

Atiya and I would read and play games, but I had a hard time keeping up with her. I would call my Mom to get her quite often, which I never used to do. She used to say I was “hogging” Atiya because I never wanted to let her go anywhere without me. Mom loved having her at her house, and Atiya missed me, but she had fun there. Meanwhile, I enjoyed taking my Oxy and relaxing. I still couldn’t work, so I pretty much had all day to do what I wanted. I did have to go to my doctor for more pain medication. Since the rib hadn’t healed, he wrote a prescription right away.

I’m not sure what happened, but one day, I lifted something I shouldn’t have, and my rib just hurt SO badly. I went to the Emergency room, but I hadn’t done any damage. They gave me more Oxy and sent me home. I was truly in pain…a LOT of pain. I ended up chewing the Oxycontin instead of taking it whole. I cannot describe how fantastic I felt. The pain went away, and I didn’t have a care in the world! Since I hadn’t been able to work, I had begun playing computer games to pass the time, especially when Atiya was at my Mom’s house. Chewing some Oxy and playing games became routine.

Atiya would come home, and I’d read to her, but really all I wanted to do was be alone and enjoy my Oxy and my games. She was cute, I’ll give her that, but I just didn’t want to be bothered. I’d end up calling Mom before the day was out to have her pick up Atiya. Mom started to get worried, but I told her I’d be fine after the rib healed. She commented that it should already be healing, but I brushed it off. I had moved up to chewing two Oxycontin every couple of hours, but the doctor was starting to hesitate prescribing more. So, I went to another clinic and got more.

That went on for months. I became like a zombie. All I did was play my computer games, talk on the phone with my friends, and little else. Atiya rarely came home anymore, but she called every night. It probably would have continued like that except for one pivotal moment. My Mom brought Atiya over, unannounced. She wanted to play a game with me, but I told her I was tired. She turned to my Mother and said something I will never forget…”Grandma, why doesn’t Mommy like me anymore”. In that moment…I don’t know…I had a glimpse of the past and I saw us together as we once were. Laughing, playing, just being “buddies”.

For the first time in months, I looked, I mean really looked at my baby girl. I saw her tears and my heart sank. I wanted to run into my room, chew some Oxy and forget, but my Mom said; “Your Mommy loves you, Atiya. And to prove it, she is going to get help”. Thank God I walked out that door with my Mother and my little girl to go to rehab. Otherwise, I don’t know that I ever would have gotten back my relationship with my beautiful daughter. How could I have given all of that up for a drug? I still can’t answer that, I just know that Oxy almost cost me the most precious thing in my life, and I’m glad it didn’t. Read more…

Narconon Trois-Rivières offers a unique program for OxyContin addiction recovery – and by recovery, Narconon means completely drug-free, and free to live your life, without addiction.

At Narconon people understand what drug addiction is all about. You didn’t mean to get addicted, you don’t want to be addicted, yet you feel powerless to change. Drugs that at first made you feel powerful and in control, now control your life.

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First Steps: Drug-Free Withdrawal and Detox

The first step in the Narconon program is detoxification from the addictive drug, a precise and supported process that empowers and enables you to face and get through drug withdrawal with no substitute drugs, or tapering off, that would impede recovery. With natural methods for pain relief, nutritional supplements, dry heat sauna, good food, good sleep and exercise, people will clean their body off the drugs and their toxines, and their body and mind will feel relax – much of the pain of drug withdrawal is exacerbated by drug residues traped in the body, by stress and tension.

Research has shown that most people seeking therapeutic exercise, such as for weight loss or illness recovery, benefit most, and enjoy exercise with a group. Addiction recovery is very much about:

• becoming more open to new experience
• changing your ways of thinking
• Free yourself from the negative ways of drug use, towards a new enthusiasm.

Sharing that experience with other people can be very rewarding, and beneficial to recovery.

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The Rehabilitation Part of the Narconon Program

After drug-free detox the next part of the Narconon program is a series of courses that gives tools for successful living without the need of drug or alcohol. This rehabilitation part of the program is covered with 6 separate books or courses. Each book deals with a particular topic of life enhancement skills – people will feel more positive the more they understand about themselves, and how to deal with the different people and conditions of life.

The Narconon program is a challenge to old ways of thinking, and negative, depressive attitudes that hold people back from making the best of themselves, and making the best of life. Narconon methods enable people to sort the wheat from the chaff – and give up old patterns of thinking and feeling that are unhelpful to a positive future.

Part of the Narconon program is about self-education – teaching people strategies and methods to resolve problems, methods that can be applied to any new task that a Narconon graduate sets out to accomplish in life. People are individuals, each with their own strengths and interests, and areas where they might need more help or support to overcome negativity or depression.

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Problem with Drug Addiction

Part of the problem with drug addiction is that toxic drugs have interfered with the ability of the brain and the body to produce the natural balance of bio chemicals that are needed to enable good health, and for people to feel happy. Particularly with opioid use, such as with OxyContin, the feel good chemicals in the body have been depleted – people need lots of energy from nutrition and human interaction to regenerate their natural feelings of vitality and optimism.

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Hope and Belief

Much surprise occurs in the medical profession when placebo effects help people to overcome and recover from illness and disorders. Hope and belief in a better future often appears to be sufficient to generate better health. If people are given help and support for their hope and belief – then anything is possible, even recovery from oxy addiction. If you are addicted to OxyContin it is not the end of the road, provided that you make a decision to turn your life around and make the move away from drug use and addiction towards a positive new life.

For more information about Narconon being an answer to prescription drug abuse, please call 1-877-782-7409 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 1-877-782-7409 end_of_the_skype_highlighting.

To get an idea on how people get addicted to OxyContin, read this  painkiller addiction story from Narconon3r.

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As odd as it may seem, my OxyContin addiction began with the words “make the pain go away”. I said them to a doctor in the emergency room when I broke my leg in two places. If only I knew then what I know now, things might be different. Well, the doctor prescribed OxyContin to ease the pain and told me that the pills were time released, so they should work for up to twelve hours.

I do remember that when taking that first OxyContin, the pain was eased dramatically. I also noticed that, well, it just made me feel good. I felt relaxed and had this overwhelming sense of well being. Yeah, my leg was broken…but when I took that Oxy, I just couldn’t care less. Well, the first problem was that since it masked the pain (and the problem); I started overworking the leg, which took it longer to heal. As inconvenient as that was, at least I got more OxyContin. I thought all of my problems were solved. Wrong. Read more…