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Narconon Of Georgia Generations Of Addiction
It is not uncommon to find second generation drug addicts in drug rehab often after the addicted parents died from drug-related causes.
NORCROSS, GA, June 03, 2010 /Pharmaceutical PR News/ -- It is not uncommon to find second generation drug addicts in drug rehab often after the addicted parents died from drug-related causes. But through effective drug treatment, their children have the opportunity to defy fate and live happy lives drug free and productive.
Here are the stories of three of them.
Brent is one of them.
Brent was an opiate baby and almost died at birth. When his mother was pregnant with him she was on prescribed pain pills for wrist pain, but she progressed to full addiction. Brent was born addicted and almost died.
Despite his mother's addiction, Brent grew up in a well-structured family. He played baseball and football
His mother was never able to get off the drugs, despite many rehabs and when he was 15 his father divorced her because of the drug use. She soon lost her job as a teacher and went off the deep end with the drugs. She was smoking crack, doing opiates and drinking heavily. She died five years ago from cirrhosis, a form of cancer and hepatitis C. Brent feels that the circumstances of her death and the fact that he was born addicted led him down his own path of full-fledged addiction. He stated, "In 7th grade I tried Loritabs. The first time I took one I became addicted and I think that is because I was born addicted. I then moved to Oxycontin. It started out with a couple of pills a week and went to 8 to 10 pills a day. I stopped school in the 10th grade and by then I was taking up to 10 80 mg. pills a day."
Even two years of prison didn't help Brent kick the drugs, but finally drug treatment did. Today, one year after graduating from the Narconon program, he is running his own business and spends his extra time helping others come to grips with their addiction. Though he knows he needs to keep practicing what he has learned in the program, he feels confident that the life of addiction is behind him. Thanks to competent doctors, his life was saved at birth and he says thanks to his treatment program, his life was saved a second time.
Maggie describes herself as a "heroin baby". When she was six months old her mother, a heroin addict, dropped Maggie off with her grandparents to go shopping. But she never came back. Maggie's grandparents raised her.
Life was good for Maggie as a child. Her grandparents gave her tons of love and affection, and she loved the Catholic school she attended. That changed when Maggie was 19. When her grandfather died felt a great deal of pain and loss. She turned to cocaine for what she thought would be temporary relief. But instead, she became addicted and spent the next 25 years of her life chasing the high with other druggies doing the same.
Maggie reflects on her life: "When I was about 25 I started dating a bouncer at a bar. Our whole relationship was centered on getting high. One day when he was high he robbed his friend's house. A woman walked in and surprised him, and he cut her throat. He spent 12 years in prison. I married him while he was in prison and got pregnant."
Maggie goes on to describe the four continuous years she smoked crack. When her husband got out of prison, he divorced her because of her drug use and took their child with him. This still was not enough to get Maggie to stop smoking. She got to that point where she only had one friend left and that friend was a crack smoker. Maggie's life was bartending and spending her money on crack. Eventually she lost her home and job.
Maggie was living in her car, caring only about getting high. One day she caught a glimpse of herself in the rearview mirror and couldn't believe how bad she looked. She was so shaken up by what she saw she decided to call a treatment center for help. She had been carrying the phone number of one in her pocket - Narconon. She called and her life has completely changed.
Today Maggie's world has expanded far beyond her car and a crack pipe. She is a major influence in her children's lives and works as a home health caretaker giving others the help that at one time she could not even give herself. Getting high is out of the picture and is only a faint memory.
Maggie is nearing her one-year anniversary as a graduate of the Narconon program, reminding the world that no matter what happens in life, a person can always have a new fresh start.
Pam was born in 1982 into an abusive household. Her father was an alcoholic and was drinking throughout the pregnancy and during her infancy. He was a violent drunk and once pulled a gun on Pam's mother. Pam feels that perhaps this behavior could have affected her as she was a baby, observing life around her.
When Pam was 14 months, old her parent's divorced. As a child, when Pam would visit her father he would always be drinking. Since it was something she had seen all her life, Pam thought that this was normal behavior. One day when her dad was late picking Pam up from school she waited a long time for him. Pam finally saw him. He was in the back of a police car with his hands behind his back. He had been picked up for drinking and driving.
For the last three years of his life, Pam's father did not speak to anyone in the family. He died alone in 2005 surrounded by a 4 foot high pile of beer cans.
Pam drank a bit when she was a teenager but did her best to stay away from it, because she knew her father was an alcoholic. Later when she was 21 she started drinking to the point where she doesn't remember 6 months of her life. She describes this as a six month black out.
She decided to "cure" herself from the alcohol addiction by staying high on crack cocaine. However, the cure almost killed the patient and the crack cocaine led her down paths that she could never have imagined.
Pam spent some time in jail for auto theft but fled the state when she got out of jail. She was on the run for two years staying high most of the time. During this period she had a baby who she put up for adoption (she would try to stay clean during the pregnancy, but only could a few days at a time.). She was kidnapped by another drug addict and was raped. She finally turned herself in and luckily was sent to Narconon drug treatment instead of incarceration. She completed the program and started to put her life back together. Since her legal charges were handled as first offender she was given a new chance at life on many levels.
Since graduating from the Narconon program Pam has co-founded a business and now continues to work with Narconon students as a way of giving back.
Pam's dream is to one day have a family. She feels she has broken a chain of family addiction and that her kids will be OK. She also knows where her biological son is and intends to teach the adoptive parents about the possibility that their adopted son may one day have an addiction. Pam is going to do what she can to prevent this.
These three stories demonstrate that growing up with addicted parents often leads to addiction for the child. But they also demonstrate that though the influence of addiction on childhood can be strong, it can be overcome with an effective drug rehab program and anyone can turn their life around.
Narconon of Georgia provides drug treatment and education. Narconon Drug Rehab of Georgia is a non-traditional drug abuse treatment program with a 76% success rate. For more information or if you know someone suffering from addiction please contact us at 877-413-3073 or visit www.drugsno.com.
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