2002’s Equilibrium is about a government regime seeking to solve society’s problems by eliminating human emotion from day to day life. The idea is that human emotion causes instability and instability amongst people causes conflict. The members of society are stripped of their individualism and no longer able to think and behave as themselves. They […]
Pretend you know nothing about drugs or medications. Pretend you know nothing about addiction or rehabilitation. Just for a second. Look at something from a different point of view. Joe has a problem: He doesn’t like the way he feels. He discovers when he puts a substance into his body, it changes that feeling and […]
Environmentally triggered cravings are similar to chemically triggered cravings except the drug related memories or mental image pictures are environmentally triggered. (Click here to read Chemically Triggered Cravings blog) That is, the person suddenly recalls past events of times they used drugs which are triggered by events in their present environment. This results in their craving the […]
A drug is any substance which when taken into the body, may modify one or more of its functions. Drugs are essentially poisons. The degree they are taken determines the effect. A small amount acts as a stimulant. A greater amount acts as a sedative. An even larger amount causes death. Each drug has a […]
Drug Cravings and Relapse; Addressing Chemically Triggered Drug Cravings and Environmentally Triggered Drug Cravings (Part 1 of 3) A person who has drug cravings will continually find themselves desiring to use drugs and remembering times they have used drugs in the past. This experience of craving drugs is sometimes just a passing thought of using drugs by […]
Regardless of why someone started using drugs or alcohol (usually it was simple curiosity), those who continued using or abusing some substance did so because the drugs “solved” a problem (or problems) for them. Example: the parents of a child 5 or 6 get a divorce, then daddy doesn’t live there anymore. This is a […]
When I first got to Narconon, I was scared. I was tired of the way I was living. I went from being happy to miserable and unhappy and losing everything. All because I chose the bottle over myself. I lost the desire to survive. I lost my self-respect. I didn’t care about life anymore and […]
I’ve gotten a ton of gain from the Narconon program. When I started I was not sure whether or not I could live a happy life without drugs. Now I know I can and be much happier being clean. This is because the program focuses more on teaching a person how to live a happy productive […]
When I first went to Narconon, I had a lot of reservations about whether the program would work for me. I had been using drugs for over ten years and didn’t really know a better solution to handle my problems. Throughout the program, I was skeptical about the methods used but time and time again they […]
I was a professional fisherman for 28 years in Alaska. During that time, I became a professional in other areas. I became as professional a cocaine addict as Michael Jordan is a basketball player. I was a professional womanizer, making more moves cheating on women than Bruce Lee in all his movies. And above all […]
