According to Narconon drug rehab
programs and a recent national survey, the indicators of the prescription
opiate epidemic are all around us. There
are have been celebrity deaths related to painkillers and many others who have
sought treatment for similar addictions as well as news stories of pain clinics
being used by individuals for drug trafficking throughout the Southeast.
Nowhere is the
evidence more clear than in the number of treatment admissions in which opiates
other than heroin were the primary substance of abuse. According to the Substance Abuse and Mental
Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS) that
number rose from less than 53,000 admissions in 2003 to over 97,000 by
2007. That is an increase of about 86
percent in just five years.
"Narconon drug
rehabilitation programs have definitely witnessed the increase in the number of
addictions involving prescription painkillers," comments Erica Catton,
Deputy Executive Director at Narconon Eastern United States, "The numbers
can seem overwhelming sometimes."
Catton has watched
hundreds overcome their own opiate addictions through Narconon drug treatment
that go on to live drug free permanently.
“Narconon specializes
in opiate addiction,” adds Catton. “Our drug rehab programs achieve a more than
70% success rate for permanent sobriety from opiates.”
Narconon has six
treatment centers in the Eastern United States currently, including three in Florida, and one
each in Georgia,
Louisiana
and Michigan. Narconon's unsurpassed success rates in
addiction recovery are the result of the effective application of the
rehabilitation methods based on research and developments by the late American
author and humanitarian L. Ron Hubbard.
To find out more
information about Narconon or to
get help for a loved one battling an addiction to opiates or other drugs, visit
www.narcononeastus.org or call 1-877-237-3307 now.
