Oklahoma - The holiday season is known to most as a time of joy spent with family and friends. For a heroin addict, the holiday season can be a depressing and lonely time, and those closest to the addict can only pray that help can be found before it is too late.
Heroin addiction causes a person to become obsessed with finding and consuming heroin. According to U.S. Department of Justice National Drug Intelligence Center, the amount of pure heroin produced in Mexico has nearly tripled in the last five years, causing heroin availability to skyrocket in the U.S. An increase of heroin abuse and heroin related overdose amongst the American youth, has parents wondering what they can do to prevent
heroin addiction.
"Kids aren't as afraid of heroin as they once were," says Robyn Dewhirst, director of assessment and early intervention at the Council on Alcohol and Drug Abuse (CADA) for Greater New Orleans. "The impression is that smoking it is no big deal, and the fear of becoming a proverbial junkie is just not there."
Drug education and awareness can help prevent heroin abuse, but the real battle must start at home. Parents must show their children the results of using heroin and the potential for addiction after just one use.
"Heroin can be addictive from its very first use because it gives the absolute peace that people are seeking," Dewhirst says. "And after that, people are always seeking that first high. It's referred to as 'chasing the dragon,' or being 'in the womb' by addicts. It's incomparable, when you're talking to a heroin addict, that first heroin high."
When heroin addiction takes hold of an individual, there normal way of life will soon deteriorate.
Heroin drug rehab can help an addict return a normal way of life free from drug abuse.
Every year Narconon Arrowhead, a residential rehabilitation program, helps thousands of heroin addicts overcome addiction using a non-traditional approach to handling all aspects of drug abuse. Their long-term, residential drug and alcohol rehab center is one of the largest and most successful centers in the entire world and achieves success rate of over 70% for permanent sobriety from addiction.
Right now, the
drug rehab program is reaching out to help as many people as possible, during the holiday season, to help them overcome the destruction caused by heroin addiction before it is too late.
“Heroin addiction is one of the most difficult addictions out there,” says Derry Hallmark, Senior Director for Expansion for Narconon Arrowhead. “But with rehabilitation, it can be fully overcome.”
For more information on
Narconon Arrowhead or to get help for someone you love that is struggling with a drug or alcohol addiction contact us today at 800-468-6933 or log onto
www.heroinaddiction.com.
