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November 30, 2009

Give your loved one the gift of sobriety this holiday season

Filed under: Riverbend — Tags: addiction, drug rehab, holidays, Narconon Louisiana, rehab program — admin @ 11:20 am

Addiction affects more than just the addicts themselves. Families, relationships, and friendships can all be destroyed in the face of substance abuse. This holiday season give the gift that will not only save an addict’s life, but your life as well – drug rehabilitation through Narconon Louisiana.

Narconon Louisiana, a long-term, inpatient drug and alcohol rehabilitation facility focuses on providing addicts with the ability to live their life the way they always intended. Addiction affects more than just the addict, it affects everyone the addict comes in contact with, unfortunately the holiday season can make it all too obvious that someone is in need of help.

According to a recent study, cases of depression, drunk driving accidents, suicide, even domestic violence all increase during the holiday season. The cause of this is simple, addicts, faced with the guilt and deception that the holidays bring along, cannot face reality. While everyone is rejoicing, spending time with loved ones, and preparing for the holidays, addicts are looking for any way to escape them.

Opened in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Narconon Louisiana is no stranger to the increased amount of calls received during the holiday season. “Every year at about this time family members begin to really see that addiction has taken over their loved one,” explains Jeff Lukas, Executive Director of Narconon Louisiana. “For the most part families can be basically tricked by the addict or affected emotionally by the time of the year to wait to get the person treatment until after the holidays.”

“Usually the holidays are a time where families get together and it becomes apparent that the individual is in desperate need of help and at the same time the addict will tend to use more because of the guilt, cravings and depression associated with the addiction,” he adds. “The answer is getting the person into effective treatment.”

In a field where the average success rate for drug rehab programs is between 12-20% Narconon Louisiana far surpasses that with a 75% success rate for permanent recovery. One way that the Narcono program does this is by using a unique detoxification method that rids the body of drug and alcohol residues. Left unhandled, the addict can continue to struggle with cravings and relapse, the most common downfall of sobriety.

Along with detoxifying the body, Narconon Louisiana does not subscribe to the idea that addiction is a disease. The final outcome of the rehab program is that the individual realizes what problem drugs were a solution to, and handles that problem, therefore eliminating the persistent and overwhelming need to get high.

While the holiday season is a time of joy and togetherness, it can also be a time where the cycle of addiction can take control of the entire family.

But the good news is that drug addiction does not have to go unhandled. If you or someone you know is in need of help call Narconon Louisiana at 866-422-4650. The holiday season can become the start of a brand new life for you and your family.

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November 10, 2009

Heroin Abuse Rising Among Youth

Filed under: Riverbend — Tags: heroin abuse, heroin addiction, heroin rehab, Narconon Riverbend, prescription abuse — admin @ 1:09 pm

Prescription opiates are attributed to creating the increase in the number of new heroin users in America seeking rehab help.

The exponential growth in the number of people battling prescription painkiller abuse in the country has led to what many in the addiction treatment field predicted – a rise in heroin addiction and subsequent heroin rehab admissions. The reason is that once someone becomes dependent on these drugs they wind up needing more of the drug to achieve the same effect – tolerance builds. Heroin is generally stronger and cheaper than commonly abused prescription opiates such as OxyContin, Vicodin, Percocet and others. Therefore, it becomes more “attractive” to opiate addicts and that is how you find people who never thought they would ever be doing heroin now snorting or injecting the drug.

A CBS report recently highlighted a town in New York where teenage heroin overdose deaths sparked school officials to hold a mandatory heroin abuse education forum in order for students to be allowed to attend the prom. Nassau County, NY has seen a 75 percent increase in heroin overdose deaths in the last year.

Health officials in Massachusetts released a special committee report stating that heroin and OxyContin addiction in the state have reached epidemic levels. The report indicated that between 2002 and 2007, 3,265 people in Massachusetts died of opiate-related overdoses. By comparison, Massachusetts lost 78 soldiers in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq during that time. Meanwhile, in Jefferson County, AL the number of heroin-related deaths has tripled since 2007.

Unfortunately, the uniform lack of success in the heroin addiction treatment field has left many opiate abusers and their family members feeling hopeless. In recent years one of the emerging leaders for helping people end addiction to drugs such as heroin has been Narconon Riverbend Retreat in Louisiana. It is a long-term inpatient drug rehabilitation program with a success rate of more than 70%.

“There are several key components to our rehabilitation program,” comments Executive Director Jeff Lukas, “One important aspect is the extended physical detoxification process we use that eliminates the opiate residues from the tissue of a person’s body, which helps to significantly reduce cravings for the drugs.”

Lukas, who was also a former heroin abuser many years ago, comments that the second part of the program, “helps people to become more responsible for themselves and their actions and puts them back in control of their lives.”

Despite being in Louisiana, people come to Narconon Riverbend Retreat from all over the country, including places like California and Florida, which have many well-known treatment centers to choose from.

For more information or to get help for a loved one in need, call 1-866-422-4650 or visit the drug abuse solution website.

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November 2, 2009

Could a Vaccine Replace Effective Drug Rehab?

Filed under: Riverbend — Tags: drug addiction, drug rehabilitation, Narconon Louisiana, vaccines — admin @ 8:32 pm

The Federal Government invests tax dollars in pharmaceutical testing for addiction vaccines.

In a recent article published by the Reuters news agency, the director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) was quoted as promoting scientific research into vaccines for addiction to drugs. In fact, $10 million in taxpayers’ money was recently given to a pharmaceutical company to conduct clinical trials on a vaccine for this purpose, hoping that it would lead to something for other drugs as well.

In case you haven’t noticed, vaccines are big business right now. There is the swine flu vaccine, HPV vaccine, and many others that are very widely promoted.

One of the main problems with developing chemical compounds to treat addiction is that nothing to date has ever produced any cure rate for addiction from the pharmaceutical industry. In addition, there are often very heavy and severe side effects that go along with these toxins. When dealing with addiction, adding more toxins to an already toxic mind and body should be the last thing that is tried in an effort to achieve lasting sobriety.

Rather than spending so much money on far-fetched inoculations to alter brain chemistry, more money should be spent on helping people get into drug rehab programs that already prove they can and do work. For example, Narconon Riverbend Retreat in Louisiana is one of the most successful rehabilitation facilities in the country. It stably helps roughly 75% of its graduates, who come from all over the nation, achieve a drug-free life.

Based on the late American author and humanitarian L. Ron Hubbard’s research and developments in the field of drug rehabilitation, Narconon Louisiana uses an open-ended approach that provides permanent solutions for ending drug abuse that include a thorough body detoxification program and a series of life skills courses that help people regain control over their lives.

“We have had many clients who have tried anything from prescriptions to injections to implants to try and overcome their addictions, but the bottom line is that if the person doesn’t have his abilities raised and self-determinism restored then any amount of chemicals offered as a temporary solution are only going to make successful recovery more difficult,” says Narconon Louisiana Executive Director Jeff Lukas. “We continue to demonstrate that we can and do help people get off drugs and alcohol for good, and it doesn’t take millions of dollars in research to figure that out.”

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