A recent report from the Army General indicates that there is an increased amount of soldiers on prescription medication and this may be fueling the growing rate of suicides in the military. Currently, 14% of the military is currently being prescribed prescription pain medication. Additionally, between 3 and 6% of all deployed military are on at least one antidepressant, and some soldiers are on multiple psychiatric medications. These statistics are fuel for many different heated arguments regarding the military and the war, however for a great number of the soldiers put on prescriptions, many of them return home addicted.
Often times, and especially in the military, prescription drug abuse starts with an injury. The medication is prescribed to allow the person to continue on with their life, without being sidelined with pain. However, what tends to happen is that the person becomes addicted to the medication and cannot refrain from using it. Even after the pain is gone, people still seek out the drug.
Regardless of how a person starts abusing prescription medication, it is vital that they enlist the help of an effective drug rehab to learn how to live life. More and more people are realizing that prescription drug abuse is a nation-wide epidemic, because of this, there is an increased focus on effective
drug rehabs. The key to determining whether or not a rehab is effective or not is to look at their approach to addiction.
One rehab with one of the highest success rates for permanent sobriety (76%) attributes their success to their non-disease approach towards addiction. The facility, called Narconon Louisiana, acknowledges that a large majority of people who are abusing prescription pain medication started off with an injury.
Armed with this knowledge, Narconon Louisiana works one on one with their clients to figure out what problem or problems led to addiction in the first place. Once this problem is isolated and handled, clients no longer feel the need to abuse medications like OxyContin, Vicodin, or Percocet.
Additionally, using the same detoxification method that the police force in Utah uses to purify their bodies after dealing with toxic meth lab cleanups, clients enrolled in the Narconon Louisiana program sign up for several sessions in a dry-heat sauna. The sauna, combined with light exercise and a regimen of vitamins and nutrition, allows the drug metabolites to dislodge from the system and escape through the sweat glands. These drug metabolites are the reasons for cravings, so this method of detoxification allows the person to live life without the constant threat of cravings, which is one of the biggest reasons why people relapse in the first place.
Our soldiers, our loved ones, and friends do not have to live life addicted to prescriptions.
Prescription drug abuse does not have to go unhandled. If you or anyone you know is in need of help for a substance abuse problem, please contact
Narconon Louisiana at 866-422-4650 for more information.
