Drugs and Their Effects

Last week, the discussion topic was drugs and their effects on an individual. If you missed last week’s topic, please read the blog before this one and then you will be caught up. Just as a summary of last week, someone can stumble onto a problem and not have the correct solution. That person deciphers what to do and sooner or later, that person finds drugs or alcohol as a quick fix to that specific problem. However, the problem is not gone; it’s masked by the effects of drugs or alcohol. Until the person confronts that problem and doesn’t run, then the problem will still be there.

Let’s move on to this week’s subject and we are going to talk about drugs and their effects on the mind. Drugs are essentially poisons or toxins to the body. If you don’t believe so, let’s briefly touch on the effects of drugs. Meth will make you loose your teeth, alcoholism will cause liver damage, and we could go on. The bottom line is a drug is a poison to the body. There are different proportions of drug intake that affect the individual such as a small amount acts as a stimulant, a great amount acts as a sedative, and a large amount can kill you. To understand how drugs affect the mind, you must know that drugs can kill you and they are a poison to the body. Another tidbit is to know that the mind is a communication and control system between the individual and his environment. We all experience mental image pictures. The perfect example for this information is to close your eyes and what do you see? Some people see blackness and other people see pictures. Other examples of mental image pictures are the impressions from past activities. I can remember when I was very young and my grandfather would pull me in a wagon attached to his lawn mover.

Move this information to someone who has taken drugs, retains mental image pictures of those drugs and their effects. Even in college, I can remember someone recollecting their stories when they were high, drunk, or shooting up. Also, go ask someone who has almost overdosed and see if they can tell you their incident. It’s the mental image pictures the mind remembers that will lead to the next week’s topic, restimulation.

In summary, we are discussing how drugs affect the mind and overall finding a correct and effective solution for drug and alcohol rehabilitation. The next blog, we will touch on restimulation and finish up the portion of how drugs affect the mind get into how you can help someone get off drugs. Until then, if you need more information or help, log onto www.stopaddiction.com or call Narconon Arrowhead at 1-800-468-6933.

Finding Solutions

A solution is defined as the answer to a problem. A simple solution to the math problem 2 + 2 is 4. Four is the solution or answer to that specific situation. Let’s apply this basic principle to the rehabilitation process. What is effective rehabilitation? Is there an effective solution to the rehabilitation process? Let’s look at some information and we will find the solution. What is the reason for someone to do drugs? Let’s use this example…Have your bills been so overdue that you have collection agencies calling you every single day? Are you struggling to keep food on the table to give your family proper nutrition? These are common problems that are prevalent throughout America. Instead of finding a proper and correct solution for these problems, they use a quick fix, drugs and alcohol. People think that drugs and alcohol are supposed to do wonderful things, but in reality all they do is ruin or destroy a person’s life.

People think that just because a person stops taking drugs or alcohol, then all problems are ceased. This is not the answer…the effects are accumulated and can impair a person both physically and mentally. Let’s go deeper into the word impair. Most people think of impair as a disability, but according to Webster’s impair means to decrease in strength. Addiction lowers the strength of the addict. If you have never tried to talk to an addict, pay attention to how they communicate. Hardly any addict will confront you and look you in the eyes and that is due to the lack of ability to confront life situations and that’s why the look for a quick fix to problems with drugs and alcohol. Keep in mind; we are searching for a solution to effective drug and alcohol rehabilitation. I’m going to make this a series on the components of the correct solution to effective drug and alcohol rehabilitation. If you want results, check out the Narconon Arrowhead website, www.stopaddiction.com or call 800-468-6933 and get the help you need.

The next part of this series, we will dig deeper into the reason behind having a drug problem and talk about how drugs affect the mind. Also, check out my friend’s blog at www.brittshaye.blogspot.com. It’s a very relaxing and inviting into the world of a young woman who loves helping people!

Prescription Drugs

I will start out by asking what is drug rehabilitation? Rehabilitation means to restore a person to a former capacity is before someone started drugs. If that's so, then explain to me how someone could ever treat a drug addiction with another drug? After watching the Discovery Channel, they aired a special edition on cocaine. What a shock to find out that Sigmund Freud a highly thought of psychologist was hooked on cocaine. The Discovery Channel went on to say that after prescribing cocaine, Freud become the person who discovered the interpretation of dreams expert.

My reply to that is who wouldn't try to interpret their dreams while being addicted to cocaine? Next question, what about treating methadone for heroin addiction? Is that effective? Why are people treating a drug addiction with another addictive drug? Let me tell you where this leads to. I have a friend that came from "another place" and they treated this person with benzodiazepine. This "other place" told this person they totally cleaned out the system of any drugs, but if that person was so cleaned out, then why when I was working with my friend for at least 2 hours of being upset because she was mentally withdrawing from drugs, but the other place said she was clean. Then, some people would say that she needs meds to treat her depression. When are we going to wake up? Is this the definition of effective rehabilitation?

When someone is treated with another drug and I have to comfort someone because their mind is withdrawing from the prescribed drugs that was used to cover up a drug addiction, then something is wrong! The bottom line is another drug will not rehabilitate someone, but put them further into the pits of drug addiction, which makes the person's life a living hell! How can someone go home and sleep at night knowing they gave a patient a drug knowing it wasn't going to help them? Are we shifting into a society of deceit and lies? If you don't have enough understanding, watch a person withdraw from methadone, benzos, etc. and see if it doesn't break your heart when you see them falling on their knees wondering why someone told them they would feel better and be clean but in reality become addicted to another drug!
If you want a holistic, drug-free program with over a 70% success rate, then check out stopaddiction.com. Narconon Arrowhead offers a way out of addiction without the deceit of treating a drug addiction with another drug. You want effective drug and alcohol rehabilitation, Narconon Arrowhead is the answer.

Disclaimer: This entry is based solely the author's own viewpoint and first-hand experiences.

Sincerely
Jason
Director of Public Promotions
Narconon Arrowhead
Phone: 918-339-5889
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National Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery Month

What is recovery? According to Webster's Dictionary, recovery is a return to a normal condition.

When we speak about recovery, it is a process of someone or something getting back to normal. I will give you some beginning information about National Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery Month coming up in September. Recovery month is set aside each year for people to celebrate their loved ones being normal once again. The lesson to recovery is to understand and recognize that addiction can be overcome. You don't have to be an addict your whole life! You can find your old self again and the nation is about to begin celebrating the people who have changed their lives. This is going to be one blog entry in a full set about National Recovery Month.

If you want to know how to get involved in recovery month or get help for your loved one, then give Narconon Arrowhead a call, I guarantee you won't be dissapointed that you called. We offer free information and we do free lcoal referrals to rehab centers right in your own town.

Call 1-800-468-6933 or visit www.stopaddiction.com. Also, use that number if you are interested in how to get your community involved in National Recovery Month that starts in September.

I want to end this weeks' blog with a quote from an Administrator of SAMHSA, Charles Curie. "The journey to recovery can sometimes start from just one phone call."

Go ahead and make that call and see how it can change your life.

Children Need Knowledge About Drug and Alcohol Abuse

As I sit here and write this blog looking back when I graduated from high school in ’94, I think about the different opportunities I have created for myself. If someone told me that I would be working in the field of drug and alcohol rehabilitation, I would have told them they are crazy! Today, here I am writing a blog about Narconon Arrowhead, one of the largest drug and alcohol rehabilitation centers in the world. I think about the good and bad times I have experienced working at this job and the good outweighs the bad by far! Enough about me, let’s go into my “win” for the week.

A win is defined as something you intend to do and do it or something you intend not to do and don’t do it. I had a huge win this past week in the field of drug and alcohol addiction. Narconon Arrowhead believes that education is the prevention to having addictions. We have a drug education department that educates the youth on alcohol and drug addiction. Steven, the drug education specialist, and I went to Camp PLEA, which is a camp for disabled children. Part of the camp was for us to go to the camp and educate the children on drug and alcohol addiction. When Steven asked the children if they have ever heard of or seen someone who was high on drugs or drunk from alcohol, almost every child raised their hand. That really broke my heart when today’s youth at the young ages of 8-13 has seen a family member high or drunk. These children were reaching out to Steven and myself because they were scared of what they saw and didn’t understand it. Steven did a fantastic program for the children and they understood and learned about how drugs affect the mind and body. We gave them T-shirts and little booklets and the counselor mentioned that the children acted on their best behavior for us and I saw 30 smiling faces as I left the camp. Our children are starving for direction in their lives. Everyday, I read on Google News how children in households test positive for meth because their parents operate a meth lab. I read children getting abused because his/her parents are on a 3 day binge of cocaine. I read houses going up in flames with children that were burned due to meth lab explosions.

When are we going to open our eyes and see that our children are gifts and we need to protect them as such. I have 2 nieces and a nephew and a lot of friends with children and I treat them all as my family. I know that our children are leaders of tomorrow and instead of feeding their minds with visions of people being high and drunk, we should fill their minds with love, laughter, and adventure. When we decide to love our children as our parents loved us as we grew up, this will suppress the huge problem that we have with drug and alcohol addiction.

In conclusion, I really enjoyed putting smiles back onto the youth at Camp PLEA and as I go back and reminisce after I graduated from high school, I have to say working at Narconon Arrowhead is one of the most rewarding jobs I could ever have. Knowing that I’m helping save lives from drug and alcohol addiction, I can rest peacefully at night! If you need help and want to make a difference in your life and your community, contact Narconon Arrowhead at 1-800-468-6933 or visit www.stopaddiction.com and together we can make a difference!

Drug Free

It's great to work and help people become drug free. Narconon Arrowhead, the largest drug and alcohol rehabilitation center in the world, is doing just that. I greatly enjoy doing radio interviews on drug education topics such as How Drugs Affect The Body, Family Intervention, Meth Labs, etc. See how you can help save a life... call Narconon Arrowhead today at 1.800.468.6933 and become a Community Involvement Specialist or get the information you need to help your friend or family member!

Summer

Summer is around the corner and drugs and alcohol will play a major part with a lot of people. Kids will be out of school and college and this will be the time that their responsibility levels will drop. When this happens, the younger generation begins to experiment with drugs and alcohol. This sense of boredom and doing something different could lead someone you know into the trap of drug or alcohol addiction. As a few tips, parents, help your child become involved in community activities. Know where they are and who they are with at all times. Teach them responsibility and educate them on what is out there and how drugs and alcohol can affect them. There are thousands of opportunities for our youth to be involved in their local community.

If something does happen this summer to your friend or your family member, there is someone who is always here to help. Narconon Arrowhead is the most effective drug and alcohol rehabilitation center in the nation. We have a great group of counselors that are always ready to give advice to family members or someone who is addicted to drugs or alcohol. We can find a rehab in your local area or just give you information about drug or alcohol addiction. Call Narconon Arrowhead today and help save a life! Call 1.800.468.6933.

Community Involvement Specialist

Thousands and thousands of people in the U.S. are reaching for help to battle against drug or alcohol addiction. I work for Narconon Arrowhead, the largest and most successful drug and alcohol rehabilitation center in the world. We are saving lives and reuniting families everyday. I feel very privlaged to work here. If you want to become active in your community, then I have an idea for you. Sign up with us and become a Community Involvement Specialist. You can let people know that you are there to help your community and make a change in your area. If you want to help someone overcome drug or alcohol addiction and want to be active in our community, contact Narconon Arrowhead at 1-800-468-6933 and become a CIS. Make a change today and help someone in your area!