Posted in Substance Abuse on Mar 5th, 2012
The history of success with drug recovery in Vancouver BC, Canada begins with the Narconon program, in 1966, in an Arizona jail. The now-famous story of William Benitez, a long term prisoner and heroin addict, relates how he came to read the work of Ron L Hubbard “The Fundamentals of Thought”. The text inspired Benitez [...]
Posted in Substance Abuse on Mar 24th, 2010
Drug addiction is a physical, mental and emotional dependence on a drug. In fact, the drug becomes the most important thing in the life of an addict. They will let nothing, or no one get in the way of their getting their drug fix. Because of this, their behavior often seems bizarre and very out of the ordinary.
Posted in Substance Abuse on Jan 5th, 2010
The two ways that substance abuse affects families the most are emotionally and financially.
Once in a while, they can even affect them in a physically threatening way when the psychological changes in the substance abuser changes to an elevated need for the substance.
Posted in Substance Abuse on Dec 29th, 2009
Substance abuse can and does kill people every day. A person can succumb to alcohol poisoning, take an overdose, get some bad “stuff”, anything can happen. For teens, substance abuse can affect their growth, their grades, their mental ability. They can become withdrawn, hostile and end up losing out on many wonderful memory making opportunities by missing out on school events, sports, dances. At one, a student can end up with grades dropping so bad that he or she could lose out on a scholarship or not getting accepted into the college of his dreams
