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Narconon Arrowhead Drug and Alcohol Treatment Center Success Story

Wow! I never thought I would be 120 days sober, ever again in my life, but thanks to the Narconon Arrowhead Drug and Alcohol Treatment Center, this has happened. Furthermore, I look forward to increasing that number every day. Before I came here to drug rehab I was lost in a sea of hopelessness. I knew how to be an addict and that’s about it. I never admitted to myself that I had a problem. My family was slowly throwing me away. In a matter of three months, I did a 180-degree turnaround in almost every aspect of my life. I’m comfortable in my environment and with myself. I’m able to communicate and confront. Best of all, I know how to stay sober. I am so excited about my future here and with my family and friends. I have my dreams back! E.V.

Alcohol Addiction

Alcohol Addiction
Alcoholism is the usual term applied to someone with an alcohol addiction. The physiological and psychological affects of alcoholism can be quite severe. At high levels of daily alcohol use the user can run the risk of severe withdrawal called delirium tremens which can be life threatening. Such alcohol addiction requires full medical supervision until the threat to life is reduced. Most 28 day traditional treatment programs are only able to affect a success ratio of 16% to 20% in achieving lasting sobriety. Cravings, guilt and depression are the three factors preventing long term success with alcohol addiction, or any other for that matter. These three points usually require a more thorough address than that received in the shorter programs.

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LSD and Addiction

LSD
LSD is one of the most potent, mood-changing chemicals available. LSD effects are extremely unpredictable. It could be a racing distorted high all the way to severe paranoid and suicidal low. LSD can create severe neurosis and psychosis which can sometimes become permanent. In the 1950’s the western intelligence community was experimenting with LSD as a possible chemical weapon with researchers noting that ‘LSD is capable of rendering whole groups of people, including military forces, indifferent to their surroundings and situations, interfering with planning and judgment and even creating apprehension, uncontrollable confusion and terror’. Experiments continued along these lines until LSD was banned in 1967.

 

Addiction Side Effects and Addiction

Addiction Side Effects
With most drugs there are short term effect, long term effects and addiction side effects which would actually be long term effects resulting from abusive use of illegal drugs and addiction to prescription drugs that can occur even at what is commonly considered ‘safe’ levels. Anti-depressants are a case in point. Many of these legal medications have serious side effects including increased violent behavior as well as suicidal ideation when taken at prescribed levels, especially in youth. Add in the fact that many of these drugs are taken at abusive non-prescribed levels as well as mixed with other prescription drugs and illegal street drugs. With the current trends in abuse and addiction inpatient medically supervised withdrawal is vital in most cases of addiction treatment.

 

Addiction Rehabilitation and Addiction

Addiction Rehabilitation
Is addiction rehabilitation possible without constant worry over relapse or reversion? The answer is undecidedly YES! The best chances for addiction rehabilitation that lasts is a long term, drug free, non-traditional approach. Narconon Arrowhead offers such services. Our program has no set time table; rather we operate from the viewpoint of obtaining results. An average stay is 90 – 120 days. We deal in drug free addiction rehabilitation as additional drugs to solve an already out of control drug problem just makes no sense. We are also non-traditional meaning we do not treat addiction as a disease one is stuck with for life but rather stress a life that is drug free and productive without false labels or stigma’s attached to someone.

 

Alcohol Abuse Treatment and Addiction

Alcohol Abuse Treatment
Alcohol abuse can be considered to set in when the use of alcohol is impacting the individual’s quality of life. This may be drinking on the job, arguments at home due to mild or severe intoxication, ignoring one’s responsibilities in favor of alcohol use, or any of the seemingly endless list of detrimental effects. One does not necessarily reach the stages of full blown alcoholism in order to benefit from alcohol abuse treatment. Alcohol abuse most often occurs as a solution to the cravings, guilt, and depression. These three points are key points leading up to and then continuing drug or alcohol abuse. When one is able to feel better and find more joy without the alcohol than with it, the need, desire, or compulsion to abuse it fades away. Alcohol abuse treatment in time can prevent the full blown miseries and possible death resulting from alcoholism.

 

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