Heroin Addiction on the Rise

Nearly every state has seen an increase in heroin addiction cases as addicts are switching from costly and hard to come by prescription drugs to heroin.

Across the country heroin abuse and addiction cases are on the rise. While many people are aware of the country’s escalating prescription drug problem, heroin use, abuse and addiction problems have not received the same coverage. In Arizona, the increase in heroin overdose deaths has risen by ninety percent over the past decade. Prescription drug addiction is considered to be the present gateway to heroin addiction. This is because heroin is cheaper, and in some areas of the country easier to obtain. Due to prescription opioid medications being harder to obtain legally or on the street many addicts are making the switch to heroin to satisfy their addiction.

Heroin overdose deaths are claiming more lives with each passing year. The drug if often extremely pure or laced with other powerful narcotics and the user is often unaware of exactly what they are taking. Additionally, many overdose deaths have been connected with user’s having a low tolerance for the drug after completing rehab and unintentionally taking more than their bodies can tolerate. Addiction to this dangerous drug is happening all across the country. Middle-class suburban families who once felt “safe” are now struggling with the nightmare of their son’s or daughter’s heroin addiction.

The greatest increase in heroin addiction cases are among young adults between the ages of eighteen to twenty-five. In 2007, it was estimated that there were 373,000 heroin users in the United States. This number increased to 669,000 by 2012 and continues to rise. First time users of the drug nearly doubled over a six-year period (2006-2012) from 90,000 users to an estimated 156,000 users.

In Ohio, hospitals have experienced many “drive-up, drop-off” cases of heroin overdose victims. Users are dropped off at state hospitals where medical staffers have to work quickly to assess and treat the individual. Due to so many of these cases, staffers have become quick and efficient at delivering a dose of naloxone (an opiate-reversing drug) to patients. While many heroin overdose patients are revived, some have to be put on ventilators and there are those who do not make it; succumbing to death brought on by their heroin overdose.

Despite the fact that some states are so inundated with heroin addiction cases that they have a six month wait list, help is always available at Narconon Fresh Start. Our skilled staff members are able to assess and begin a treatment plan with you or your loved one and start the process of recovery. At Narconon Fresh Start, program participants overcome their addiction issues while regaining a sense of self-control, personal responsibility and the skills they need to end their addiction and be successful in their lives.

 

Patching Things Up With Family

A portion of the Narconon Fresh Start drug rehab program focuses on helping the recovering individual with their family and personal relationships.

“After being here at Rainbow Canyon Retreat for several months I feel more like myself than I have in years. I’m healthy for the first time and able to exercise and take good care of myself. The meals here are delicious and I’m gaining healthy weight. The skills I’ve learned have helped me to work things through with my family and they have welcomed me back to their home. It’s a huge step for them and one that I’m really happy about. To know that because of the hard work I’ve done here I’m going to get to have a safe place to live when I return home makes things so much easier for my continued sobriety. I think that they are even going to attend my graduation in a couple weeks! With my sobriety and new view on life I know that I can accomplish anything I set my mind to.”
P. T.
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Through the Narconon Fresh Start program in Nevada this client has been able to finally get clean and sober as well as rebuild their relationship with their family. While a lot of the recovery process focuses on helping the individual overcome their addiction problems, there is a portion of the program dedicated to helping reestablish family dynamics and personal relationships. This helps to pave the way for graduates to reenter their family environment in a way that is positive and beneficial for all members of the household, including the loved ones of the recovered individual.

 

 

Narconon Fresh Start Establishes Essential Life Skills in their Graduates

Narconon Fresh Start is a network of successful drug and alcohol rehab programs dedicated to helping addicts and their families recover from addiction problems.

As a group of individuals who have banned together to eradicate drug addiction and alcoholism, Narconon Fresh Start’s staff is dedicated to helping addicts and their families restore what has been lost through substance addiction. Over the decades, thousands of Narconon Fresh Start graduates have successfully recovered from their addiction problem and gone on to live healthy and productive lives. This program’s ability to completely turn a person’s life around is why so many individuals struggling with addiction problems have found lasting sobriety and success. Choosing to use alternative holistic methods of rehabilitation, Narconon Fresh Start does not use drug substitution to help their client’s overcome drug addiction. That would defeat the purpose of true addiction rehabilitation. Instead, the Narconon Fresh Start drug rehab program helps get addicted individuals off of drugs or alcohol safely and naturally.

Essential life skills are part of Narconon Fresh Start’s rehabilitation program. As the program participant acclimates to their time in Narconon Fresh Start’s rehab program they become more like students than clients. Through the Life Skills Courses they learn vital skills to help them achieve sobriety, improve their quality of life and become valuable contributing members of their families and society. Skills Narconon Fresh Start graduates develop during their time in rehab include:

• How to differentiate between a dangerous associate who will lead one back into drug abuse and a friend who can be trusted
• How to recover and maintain one’s own personal integrity and self-respect
• How to solve problems in life and not be unstabilized by setbacks or disappointments
• How to make the right moral choices, based on an understanding of the way that good survival creates true happiness for self and others.

Help for Drug Addiction

If you think you have a problem with drug addiction, there is a lot of help out there for you. You have already taken the biggest step to recovery–admitting there is a problem. The next step is figuring out how to beat the addiction. The first thing you should do is get your addiction assessed. Every person is different, and every addiction is different. In order to ensure that you attend the right type of program to meet your recovery needs you should speak with an addiction counselor. Locating an addiction counselor can be accomplished by contacting your insurance company, conducting a search on the web, speaking with your primary physician for a referral or even contacting a prospective drug rehab program you are considering attending. When you speak with the counselor it is imperative that you are forthcoming with the details of your drug use. You will have to describe any and all effects the addiction has had on your life and the lives of others. This can be a very intimate and revealing process, but it is essential to making your way to recovery. This helps the counselor to make an accurate judgment as to what level and duration of care is necessary to help you end you cycle of addiction.

Narconon Fresh Start Can Help

We here at Narconon Fresh Start understand what a difficult situation you going through. We know that you have tried and attempted solutions within the family to end the addiction, we know you have been through a lot and have different feelings about what to do and how to go about doing it. As one of the most successful drug rehab programs in the country we will help you change this movie that has been playing for too long now and transform it to a better movie for you and your family that does not have the addiction cast into it. Many of us have been through and overcome addiction ourselves. We want you to know, while every person and family is different, there is one thing you all have in common – you can have your life back and we will help you get there. Contact us today to speak with our addiction counselors and see how our program will help you achieve sobriety.

Our programs are considered the most effective form of addiction rehabilitation, with a high number of our graduates remaining sober after their graduation. Narconon Fresh Start drug rehab centers are residential, long-term, drug-free, holistically based rehabilitation programs able to address all forms of substance abuse and addiction. Clients enter our centers addicted to all different substances including alcohol, meth, heroin, cocaine, marijuana, prescription pills, over the counter medication, synthetic drugs (spice, bath salts, etc.) and are able to fully recover from their addiction and go on to live the life they imagined for themselves before their addiction took hold.

Handling More Than Drug Addiction Rehabilitation

There are a variety of different drug rehab programs available today. Some offer additional help dealing with issues common to addicted individuals such as dual diagnosis (co-occurring disorders), DUI or DWI rehab, detox, teen drug rehab, or court ordered treatment. For a person addicted to drug or alcohol the ability to make a full recovery means addressing all the areas in their life that contributed to their substance abuse as well as those that could lead them to relapse. New life skills and tools are needed to help the recovering person handle real life situations once they complete treatment. Factors such as encountering someone from their days of using, returning to the same environment and places, or even small things such as smells and objects trigger memories which can create psychological stress. This can hinder the recovering individual’s goal of complete recovery, thus not allowing the addict to permanently regain control of his or her life. Successful drug rehab programs like Narconon Fresh Start offer hope to men, women, and their families who are struggling with the devastating consequences of drug and alcohol addiction.