Drug Addiction Stories & Info

An unlikely bond – between Eminem and Elton John – that started with them singing together at the 2001 Grammy Awards, and led to Eminem crediting Elton with getting him off drugs.

Elton now over 60, a rock singer in the popular genre, by his own admission, as a young person, used to overindulge in drugs, yet managed to overcome a drug habit of sixteen years to remain clean and sober today.

Elton is a survivor in a world where fantasy, fame and fortune is so often connected with drug abuse, failed rehab and overdose.

In the ups and downs of the show biz world, Elton is regarded by many as a “rock”, a friend and counselor ready to help when the going gets rough. Elton has his critics, who accuse him of interfering – but as Elton says it is never his intention to intervene, if a person does not want any help. You cannot help a person until they are ready.

Elton himself can remember his own denial about drug use, and the rejection of friends because they told him that he was being an “idiot”. Elton regrets the years lost to drugs, saying intially it was fun, but that it ended up being incredibly depressing.

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Rapper Eminem, of Slim Shady fame was born in 1972, began performing at the age of 14, using mainly prescription drugs as he hit the big time, to cope with the stress, to maintain peak energy for exhausting, but exhilarating live on stage performance. His albums Relapse, and Recovery reflect his struggles to overcome drug addiction. In 2005, Eminem cancelled a concert tour, saying that he had gone into rehab for sleep medication dependency.

 In 2008, an autobiography revealed Eminem’s lifelong struggle with depression and drugs, poverty and fame. It was to Elton John that Eminem turned for help with his drug addiction problem around 2008/09, facing a downward spiral into increasing use of prescription drugs, painkillers and sleeping pills.

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 In 2010, Eminem announced to fans that there would be no Relapse 2 album, but released instead Recovery, as being more in tune with his feelings. Perhaps Recovery is what the world is in need of – the Recovery album is the best selling digital album ever, selling over 3 million copies in the USA.

 Elton John as a mentor to Eminem follows the age old tradition of peer counseling and support, in which more experienced folk who have been there and done it, can give the benefit of their experience to others, perhaps help them avoid the pitfalls, overcome the hurdles.

 For Elton John and Eminem there has been a successful outcome.

For many top rating musicians and performers outcomes have not been as happy. Recently there has been the tragic deaths of Amy Winehouse, and Michael Jackson, and many stories of celebrity rehab that has not been completely successful.

The therapeutic benefit of talking to someone who understands, who is non-judgmental has proved itself through the centuries to be invaluable support for people struggling to deal with personal problems and difficulties, who in many cases have turned to drug use as a solution.

 Entertainers find themselves in a demanding world of high achievement, scheduled performances, a life on the road, no time to stop, relax or slow down. Applause from the audience, the cheering of fans is said to be much like a drug, often leading performers to substance abuse so as to provide the energy to give consistent high performance, needing downers to get some sleep.

Today, people face more stress and tension than ever before, global connection has not necessarily improved interpersonal communication. Many people feel alone in the crowd, and in seeking purpose and identity fall into the trap of using drugs.

 Finding someone to trust, who has the answers to drug dependence and addiction need not be left to chance. An uncertain recovery, continued drug use, cravings and possible relapse can be completely avoided if you make the choice to use a comprehensive drug rehab program.

Narconon started in 1966, in a prison in Arizona, started by a long term heroin addict who developed the program from his own personal experience and insight that he gained gained from reading the humanitarian works of L Ron Hubbard., 

Over the years, the Narconon program has grown into a worldwide international presence that promotes drug free living, and complete drug addiction recovery, with residential rehab centers situated throughout the world, and drug prevention programs that are made available to communities and schools.

Mentoring is provided that is effective to bring about an improvement in life skills, and self esteem,  together with comprehensive drug free support, that includes complete sauna detox, based on scientific method.

Addicts who choose the Narconon program take the risk and uncertainty out of their addiction recovery.

It takes an average of 6-8 months – to become completely drug and addiction free using the Narconon program for alcohol and drug addiction recovery.  

People in North America,  with problems of drug abuse and addiction can contact:  Narconon Trois Rivieres. 

When you have made the decision to give up drug use, it is an important day in your life. Make sure that you know the facts. Don’t just choose “first cab off the rank”, for your drug rehabilitation.

Five aspects of the Narconon Drug Rehab program

that you might not know about, or have fully considered:

1. Narconon uses the Hubbard method of sauna detox that provides a complete and thorough detoxification from all kinds of chemical toxicity in the body, including drugs that you have used. The Hubbard Sauna Detox method is a complete protocol that prioritizes safety. It gently promotes the excretion of all harmful chemicals and their residues in the body.

Many people do not know that drug residues remain in the body and are stored in the body fat and other tissues. Drugs and their metabolites can remain in the body for years. The body also accumulates a range of toxic pollutants from the environment. Chemical residues lead to ill health and are also triggers for cravings, and possible drug relapse.

No one is really “clean” of drugs or free of the chemical bondage, unless and until they have completed the Hubbard Sauna Detox. That procedure is a key part of the Narconon drug rehabilitation program.

You will be using the same detox method that has restored war veterans, September 11 rescue workers, and Chernobyl survivors to good health and a new vitality when you come aboard the Narconon Drug Rehab Program.

2. The Therapeutic Training Routines (TRs) are an integral part of the Narconon Drug Rehab Program and assist the addict to learn better communications skills and increase their ability to face life situations. Very often drug addicts have not, in the past, found communication to be easy. People need confidence and skill to be able to handle conflict resolution.

The TRs help addicts to confront their difficulties, control their actions and reactions, and learn how to really communicate.

Better communication is the key to better relationships – and Narconon can help.

3. To support the body at a very basic level, in its quest for recovery of good health, the Narconon Drug Rehab Program uses the unique Cal-Mag formula. Cal-Mag provides to the body essential supplies of calcium and magnesium, under a form that can be easily assimilated by the different parts of the body that need them.

When calcium and magnesium are balanced in the body, it brings stability and calm. Cal-Mag restores the body to a condition in which stress and withdrawal effects can be better managed and tolerated by drug users in recovery.

Some have said that the Cal-Mag formula is evil tasting, a potent brew indeed – the very best beverage that there is to assist with drug recovery. Cal-Mag has no adverse side effects, and is used to support the drug-free Narconon detox program.

The Cal-Mag formula gets into the bones and marrow – with the power to undo the damage done by drugs like heroin, crack, and methadone.

4.  The Narconon Drug Rehab Program uses high potency niacin supplements that assist with nervous stability, and promote the repair and restoration of healthy nerves and tissue, particularly in the brain and central nervous system that is very often severely damaged by the effects of drugs.

High potency niacin also helps the body to mobilize fat – it is in body fat that toxic chemicals and drug residues are most commonly stored. The Narconon program is comprehensive, and scientifically managed, to get the system kick started again, after depletion from drug use.

There are no adverse side effects when high potency niacin is used responsibly, as a supplement to good health and improved body metabolism, as on the Narconon Drug Rehab program.

5. As part of the Narconon Rehabilitation program is the Learning Improvement Course. Not being able to read, understand and apply written materials is one of the biggest barriers to self confidence, and to being able to get on in the world.

Often drug addicts, through no fault of their own, have failed to complete school and get an education. Narconon teaches people how to study and evaluate new ideas and information. These learning skills are essential when it comes to making important lifestyle choices.

Many students of the Narconon program, when they graduate, decide to go on to complete their education and study for trade certificates, diplomas and degrees. Narconon helps drug addicts to get the education they need, by giving them the technology and the skills on how to study any subject.

Narconon: A Comprehensive Rehab Program

Drug recovery requires a comprehensive approach to enable the body and mind to get back to a state of good health and equilibrium.

People are often surprised to find that there is still more to the Narconon program – Narconon helps with mental and emotional recovery from drug abuse and addiction.

People restored to fitness and health by using the Narconon protocols work with a series of courses.

The Narconon courses – 8 books in all, deliver a package that helps people to see, confront and overcome issues and problems that keep happening in their life.

Control of the body, control of the mind, and complete recovery from drug use is the aim and intention of Narconon for every one using the program.

People optimize their chances for success and full recovery from drug dependence when they put their trust in the fully comprehensive Narconon Gateway Drug and Alcohol Rehab Program.

For more information about the this natural rehab program. Please call one of their addiction counselors at 1-877-782-7409

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It’s not easy to make a new start after addiction to drugs, and Matt was doing it hard. He’d been on methadone a couple of months and it was beginning to get him down.

 At first it had seemed like the answer, the answer to a prayer – to get your drugs free from the clinic and not have to worry about supply – but that as it turned out is the problem, at least it was for Matt. He was constantly frustrated, feeling strung out – but the doctor would not increase his dose.

True enough the doctor had adjusted the dose before, and now he was saying that it was about time that Matt got adjusted to the dose he was getting, and would not discuss it any further.

 Matt couldn’t relax, he felt unsettled, felt edgy all the time. He was starting to think he’d made a mistake getting into this methadone program – he wanted to break out and get really ripped – stay high for a week.

 His parents felt relaxed for the first time in years – their son was on the methadone program. Sure, occasionally he looked rough, failed to respond to conversation, but they had been warned that there would be times when methdone would not be enough to stop the heroin cravings, and that as a family they must bear it.

Matt was encouraged to take a course, to catch him up for entry into the workforce. Matt had dropped out of school, not studied at all, failed to sit for any exams. He looked at the courses, but none of them looked very interesting to Matt.

 Matt would have been happy to work for the council, attending to the parks and gardens, but his parents told him it was a dead end job – he needed to do the catch up course. Matt didn’t know how to tell them that study wasn’t his thing.

One morning at breakfast Dad asked Matt had he thought any more about the course, Matt said he didn’t want to study, he wanted to work in the parks, get a bobcat ticket, use a front end loader, get some exercise and work in the sun.

His mother said nothing at all and looked expectantly at Matt’s father, who simply said son, you already know my view on that. As you are on this methadone program, I’ll give you some more time to reconsider the course.

Matt felt like a pit in his stomach had opened up, felt like he was crying inside, his throat was all choked up. Matt felt compacted, compressed -  by what, he didn’t know.

 But all that Matt’s Dad saw was Matt’s rigid face, his fixed stare that looked towards the front door of the house, at the end of the hall.

 Matt stood up, he wanted some space, he wanted to feel free. Once out the front door, it was less than an hour before he’d contacted one of his mates from his heroin  days and got himself a fix. Once the effects of that wore off Matt fell into a heap. He stretched out on his bed at home. He simply wanted to die.

 Later that night Matt was prowling the house, feeling like a tiger in captivity, didn’t want to go out because he knew that if he went out, he would end up doing heroin. And something inside him said no.

 He got connected to internet – looking for a video – a song, anything to distract himself from thinking about the drugs.

And so by chance he googled up video gallery heroin – and on the page some words rivetted his attention -

                          a 12 year heroin addict – over the years, he got hooke……

Marc Murphy it was about, a musician, that Matt had never heard of .……but, he had been a heroin addict for 12 years  – what had happened to him?

Matt expected it would be an overdose death – that was the usual fate of artists and musicians that got addicted to drugs. Look at Michael Jackson.  Matt was in that frame of mind that truely, he was expecting and wanting to read a really powerful story about an addict who ended up dead.

Seeing the item, in some strange way brought a release of tension, a sort of satisfaction – Matt wanted to read about heroin, find out what had happened to Marc, so he opened it up.

Matt couldn’t relate to what he saw – a young lad just like him – no dead frontman from a band that he had never heard of, but a young lad who sounded just like him.    

 Heroin……Methadone…….What he was given added more to the problem………. Narconon doesn’t use other drugs – to get people off drugs.

Yeah Narconon Matt thought.  What the hell was Narconon anyway, that this Marc had used.

Matt was still glued to the computer as birds began to sing, and for the first time in years, he felt inwardly relaxed.

He waited til breakfast, sat down at the table, said Dad I’ve got something to say to you – it’s about a drug program I found - it can get me off heroin, methadone, alcohol – off to a new start.

 Well, I don’t know, said his father – we’ve got you on this methadone program that seems to be working out fine… Matt stood up, walked round the table, took his father by the shoulders – said stand up and come to my room – I will show you, on the computer.

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 Matt is now clean, in a sort of way – he’s completely free of drugs – but his mother complains, with a big smile on her face about the aroma of diesel and cow manure that she has to wash out of his work clothes.