The Addiction Podcast - Point of No Return

Substituting one drug for another only leads to more problems and doesn't solve the problem for which drugs or alcohol became the solution. Life happens. Deal with it.

Gone are the days were addicts were homeless in cities, dirty and shooting up in alleys. Now they are young and old people in very nice neighborhoods. With good educations and means of support. We have become a country of pill poppers and it's showing in the number of opioid related deaths on the rise. If you suspect someone you know is addicted to opioids, you need to listen to this podcast.

We've got no beef with medical marijuana but legalizing it for recreational use?  Not a good idea. Just look at Colorado and all the problems they are having with it.  Marijuana is addictive.  People are contacting Narconon who are addicted to marijuana.  Wake up!  Marijuana is a gateway

Aydin's Story

This mom's son started with alcohol in high school and moved onto other drugs such that this mom found her son unconscious.  She contacted Narconon and her son is now fully recovered.  Her story is for those who have loved ones that they suspect are addicted or who they know is addicted.

It is a disservice to call someone an addict.  That, in fact, labels the person and also puts a stigma on the person.  What do you think of when someone is referred to as an addict?  Do you see the dirty, decrepit person down on the street corner shooting up? Well, the reality is that addicts today are from well to do families.  They are the high school students, college students and co-workers that you think are perfectly happy and drug or alcohol free.

There is so much attention on opioids now with the deaths occurring on a regular basis, that crystal meth is being ignored.  The problem is that the use of crystal meth is becoming more and more widespread with the easy access coming from Mexico. What to look for?  How to do drug tests on your loved one if you suspect that he or she is using.

Csira is a beautiful young woman who was an addict at 20. She's not only clean, but she's trained now in how to help others and she works at Narconon Suncoast. Her story may sound similar to someone you know and if so, go to www.narcononsuncoast.org and contact her.  This beautiful young woman's story is heartbreaking but in the end inspiring.

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.

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. 

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. 

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. 

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. 

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. 

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.