The Addiction Podcast-Point of No Return

Drug addicts are stereotyped as poor (and how you could be poor and do drugs is a mystery); illiterate and amoral. While morals may be an issue in that addicts make decisions that are questionable as regards morals, it doesn't matter what someone's income level is, their education level, their intelligence or their religion - they can become addicted to drugs. And while there are faith based programs out there - in fact, most 12 step programs are faith based - Narconon Suncoast is different because it is based on an exact rehab technology which works every time when exactly applied to someone willing to become sober and stay sober. If you're thinking that someone in thus and such religion would never become addicted to drugs, you need to listen to this podcast.

If there's one conversion you have to have with your children it is about drugs. It is about the prevalence of drugs in our society and that it's not enough to avoid the man on the street corner selling cocaine and heroin. You have to NOT take the highly addictive pain killers and anti-depressants and mood enhancers prescribed by your friendly family doctor. People are walking out of the dentist's office with prescriptions for Oxycontin which is a highly addictive opioid. People don't start with heroin. They start out with pain killers and when the pain killers don't do the job, they move on to heroin. Narconon Suncoast has 36 people there now going through rehab. They all came in addicted to heroin and they all started on opioids. It is an epidemic in our country and across the planet but you have to educate your kids on the dangers of drugs and why to avoid them. Do you know what a drug is? Can you explain it to your child? If you have even a hint of a doubt, listen to this podcast.

If you're an addict and you need help, sometimes what you get from your friends and family is more enabling than actual help. And if you're the friends and family of an addict, you want to help but may not always know how to do that. As always, this podcast gives help and hope to addicts and those who care for them. There is help available and if someone you know is an addict, you should never ever stop helping. But giving him or her money or allowing them to take advantage of you is not helping, it's enabling and it will result in the death of the addict. You need to know the difference.

This is the story of Derek - a handsome and friendly young man. He started on drugs at age 12 when he was introduced to marijuana. He was an athlete - a wrestler - and a good student. He progressed throughout his high school year to heroin via Percocet and Oxycontin. He went to college on wrestling scholarship but lost it due to repeated injuries. Began using cocaine and more heroin after several rehab attempts. Finally he tried to end his life and at that point he finally agreed to going to Narconon in Louisiana. Now he is an interventionist for Narconon and a counselor. He uses his experiences to help other addicts reach the point of wanting the help that Narconon offers. If you're an addict, this podcast is for you. If you aren't sure if you're an addict or not, this podcast is for you. If you are the mother of an addict, this podcast is definitely for you.

The current mentality and methodology for treating drug addiction is to substitute a "less dangerous" drug for the one addicted to. It's a "drug for drug" mentality and it's stupid. We don't mince words in this podcast. If you think you can handle addiction to heroin by switching to methadone or suboxone, you are dreaming or delusional - take your pick. Drugs are not the problem. Drugs are the solution to whatever problem the addict can't quite face up to, so to just substitute one drug for another doesn't get at the underlying problem for which the drugs are the solution. Opioids are killing more people that guns these days. That's an amazing statistic and scary at the same time. If you are an addict, if you think you might be but aren't sure, if you know someone that you think might be abusing drugs - this is the podcast for you. You need to be educated and learn the tough truths about addiction and treatment.

The standard 28 day rehab program often fails. When you consider that someone did not become addicted in 28 days - it took years upon years of scaling up to full on addiction - it doesn't make sense that a person can become clean in 28 days. However, 28 days is what insurance will pay for and so standard rehab programs are 28 days. When parents and loved ones come to Narconon for help, they often ask if rehab works. But trying to compare this program to the standard 28 day program is like comparing apples to zucchini - doesn't work. How Narconon does intervention with addicts who aren't yet up to realizing they need help. This podcast covers how it's done. People with addiction need help. This podcast helps to give hope to those in need and their loved ones.

A large percentage of people addicted to drugs started on pain killers for some sort of pain. The thing is that the drugs can exacerbate the pain and add to it and cause it to get worse. Listen to the stories of how the Narconon program helped people overcome not only drug addiction - but the pain which started the whole "drugs as a solution" cycle. One woman was suffering from fibromyalgia pain and now is pain free. Another suffered from muscle tics and now no longer has them. The thing is that many of the drugs that are prescribed for pain ending up causing way more pain than the physical condition. Once the Narconon program eliminates the drugs from the person's system, the pain disappears. While some may consider Narconon the "alternative treatment program", Narconon should be the standard. This podcast discusses why Narconon is different and ultimately why it is so successful.