Narconon Drug Addiction News

– “Now I have a life. I am here and I am alive. I was fixable.”

We totally agree with the comments made by Mrs. Keller to CBC News,” said Ahern, regarding her dismay that she could find no public treatment available for her son and that lack of treatment beds has been a huge obstacle for years.

“We sincerely hope that Mrs. Keller will find a suitable program that will be able to help her son,” says Ahern.

Narconon Trois-Rivieres Drug Rehabilitation Center

We have so many letters of thanks from parents or others about the recovery of a loved one,” says Ahern. Quoting from just one letter sent to a Toronto newspaper just last week:

“My daughter lost her way while attending university in Toronto. She is beautiful, intelligent and very talented. A new love introduced her to cocaine and a nightmare was born.

“I was desperate to rescue my daughter and my internet search led me to Narconon…

“For 4 months, I had support from the Narconon [Trois Rivieres] staff and I was given as much information as I needed to calm my fears. I visited the center as often as I wanted…I knew she was getting tools for her to apply to her life and they would always stay with her…She was progressing, changing, and recovering.

“…I will always remain grateful to Narconon and their belief in aiding people to conquer their addiction. What a challenge! Today my daughter is clean and much better equipped to solve the ups and downs that life brings to us.

“Did Narconon save my daughter’s life? Of this, I have no doubt.”

L.S., Kingston, Ontario

Wow! This was a ‘Big One.’ Over the past 4 decades, I have been to several detox and rehab centers across Canada. I thought I was OK and ‘good to go’ but soon after leaving the centers, I was addicted again and in worse condition. I was lost, afraid, and expressed a lot of anger because of the pain. I felt that too much time has passed and perhaps I was ‘unfixable.’ In fact, half way through [this Narconon course], I discussed this with a Narconon staff member. I was assured that if I just followed the program and ‘let it happen’ that I was ‘fixable.’ This assurance helped a lot. Although I still had some reservations, I began to focus on where I was and what I was doing. You can only understand it once you do it… and it is amazing and incredible! This book has helped to change my life. Now I have a life. I am here and I am alive. I was fixable.”

The New Year is almost here and people are beginning to make their resolutions. It is much the same as any other year. However, it could be the most remarkable year ever if an addict decides to abandon their abuse and live a drug-free life. It is one of the most important and life changing resolutions that can be made, and Narconon Trois-Rivières can help addicts achieve that says Marc Bernard, Executive Director of the facility.

Not only the addict, but loved ones dream of a day when drugs no longer run their lives. They dream of a New Year with happiness instead of pain and tears. This can be the year to make that happen. Narconon Trois-Rivières has helped so many people to leave drugs and alcohol behind and begin new lives. Their drug rehabilitation centers use proven methods to rid the body of unwanted chemicals and also to teach addicts how to react to triggers and stress instead of turning to drugs. They understand what addiction does and how to leave it behind.

Narconon Trois-Rivières Graduation

This year can be different for addicts and their families. A New Year without drugs is a dream just waiting to happen. How many lives could be happier if addiction were not a part of them? For every addict, there are many people who are affected. Friends, loved ones, co-workers, even entire communities are affected by addiction. What a great year it could be for everyone involved if there were no addictions. Every addict must make a choice, every day, whether to continue addiction. All it takes is that one day when they say “enough is enough. Today, I’m going to change my life.”

M. Bernard tells us : Narconon Trois-Rivières has the resources to help addicts deal with life’s stress and hardships. There are other ways to deal with them other than drugs and alcohol. In fact, drugs and alcohol cause more stress than they relieve. Most of the time, an addict cannot see that until they are drug-free. Then, it all makes sense. Drug rehabilitation centers help to make sense of it all.

There is hope, and there is happiness available to anyone, including drug and alcohol addicts and their loved ones. Narconon Trois-Rivières reaches out to people with addictions every day offering that hope and happiness. The New Year can bring about a wonderful change in the life of an addict and their loved ones. Addiction can be beaten, and Narconon Trois-Rivières helps do just that.

Watch a video of Narconon Trois-Rivieres happy graduates

The New Year means a new beginning for many people. Resolutions are made and people commit to making their lives better in some way. Narconon Trois-Rivieres would like to help those who wish to end their addictions through drug rehab.  An addict is no different than anyone else when it comes to wanting to improve. Many just do not believe they can. With the help of Narconon Trois-Rivieres, they can achieve that goal and live happier, healthier lives.

Narconon Trois-Rivières Graduation

Addiction affects not only the addict, but everyone in that person’s life. Family and friends, all loved ones are deeply effected by addiction. Drug rehab at Narconon Trois-Rivieres would be a wonderful gift, and mean a new life for everyone, especially the addict. Without help, the addiction continues to destroy lives. The addiction grows stronger and lives are ruined. Help is available at any point during addiction; from the start of a new addiction, to one that has been in existence for years. Alcohol and/or drug addictions can all be beaten.

This can be the year when addiction is left behind and a new life begins. Narconon Trois-Rivieres has helped many, many people overcome addictions, and they can help you as well. Drug rehab can help put addiction behind you and arm you with the knowledge needed to resist drugs and alcohol in the future. Your life can be better, and the lives of those you love will improve too. It just takes that commitment to change, that’s all. There is no such thing as a happy addict. Addiction causes pain. Narconon Trois-Rivieres, and other Narconon drug rehab centers understand and know what it takes to leave addiction behind.

The New Year is truly an opportunity for change. Many resolutions are made, and many resolutions are broken. However, resolving to a drug-free life is possible. Many people have made that choice and stuck to it. It is one of the most important and life changing resolutions that can be made by anyone.

Narconon Trois-Rivieres has helped others to overcome addiction, and they can help you or your loved one. Any of the Narconon centers are there to help in any way they can. This New Year can be the best year yet with drug rehab. It’s never too late to change for the better, so no matter how long the addiction has been going on, help is available. Get help from Narconon Trois-Rivieres.

Trois-Rivières, Québec; over a decade has passed since this drug addicted fellow has started to hide his addiction from his loved ones. Taking potent drugs like Oxycontin every day to get high is not something he wanted to share with his wife or his teenage daughter.

Vancouver, Canada; four days into the 2010 Winter Olympic games, the athletes from Canada have won 5 medals, placing their country in the fourth position of the number of medals won, just behind France.

While the Vancouver Olympic games are being played amongst 2600 athletes, attended by over 2.3 million attendees, enjoyed and talked about by many more, there is another type of competition which is going on not only in Vancouver but around the world. This is a battle involving too many participants and to which no one would bother to pay tickets to see – the struggle between substance addiction and drug-free life.

Not unlike an athlete who trains for several years to finally place to compete at the Olympics and achieve the ultimate gold, it takes an unshakeable determination to achieve a drug-free life for a person who is battling drug addiction.

A new proud winner has just celebrated his one year clean victory after having defeated his decade long Oxycontin addiction with the help of the Narconon Program at Trois-Rivières, Canada.  For his one-year drug-free anniversary victory lap, Cliff Van Rossum insisted to fly all the way from Vancouver to attend the weekly Narconon Trois-Rivières graduation. “Wow! One year. It’s been a struggle, I did it though, and I’m sure all of you guys can do the same thing,” Cliff told the students currently enrolled on the drug rehab program. He added, “Today is a big day for me, I wanted to come here for this because it meant so much for me. Narconon has saved my life.”

Narconon Trois-Rivières has prepared a short video featuring Cliff at the podium for his one year clean win and it can be watched by all drug-free life fans and supporters on the youtube channel “narconon3r”.

Many more people are still fighting the battle, but assistance is available to bring about the ultimate victory, just dial 1-877-782-7409.

Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, Canada – “I got into a car accident and they took me out with the Jaws of Life – in the hospital they gave me Tylenol 3, but it wasn’t enough,” stated Cliff Van Rossum in a new video interview with Narconon Trois-Rivieres.  Like many others in his position who became addicted to OxyContin, it typically starts out with some form of injury requiring pain management.  Unfortunately, many of these individuals become physically and psychologically dependent to OxyContin.  “It’s becoming an all to common scenario throughout Canada right now – our Intake Counsellors receive calls everyday from OxyContin addicts looking for ways to get off the drug,” commented Nick Hayes, a certified chemical dependency counsellor with Narconon Trois-Rivieres.  “The typical scenario is a person will require these drugs for pain management, but will ignore the Doctors advice about there addictive potential,” said Hayes.

In this in-depth interview Cliff takes the viewer step by step, beginning at his car accident and going on to how he started to ‘doctor shop’ to acquire his prescriptions for OxyContin.  He describes in great detail the initial high and feeling he got from taking Percocet and how eventually he needed something stronger from his doctor, which was later OxyContin.  “It was a feel good feeling, like something I never experienced before,” stated Cliff in the interview.  Because OxyContin is a time-release formula over twelve hours, most addicts will have to chew, crush up and snort, or inject the drug to get the immediate euphoric effect of the Oxycodone, which is the primary pain reliever in OxyContin.

Cliff is one of the many people today who has successfully beaten a potentially deadly OxyContin addiction and has gone on to live a drug free life.  Today Cliff is now working his full time job, but has created a drug and alcohol rehabilitation center referral website, http://www.substanceabusecounselor.net/ that specifically helps addicts find the right treatment options.  For more information about drug or alcohol addiction, Narconon Trois-Rivieres can be reached at 1-877-782-7409.

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