According to CNN, many people who think prescription pain medication addiction just affects celebrities, like Michael Jackson, Heath Ledger and other big names, are in for some shocking news. The Office of the National Drug Control Policy reports more people are abusing prescription drugs currently than cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine combined. In addition, between 1995 and 2005, drug treatment admission for prescription pain medication abuse grew 300 percent.
Right now, prescription drugs are the second most abused drug after alcohol.
While we have seen many big names lose their battles with prescription drug addiction, there are many who have successfully recovered from it and lived to tell their stories.
One individual who has fully handled his addiction to prescription drugs is Ramsy Darwish. Mr. Darwish recently appeared on a show called America's "Other" Drug Problem Prescription Medication Abuse with Rick Sanchez and shared his story of addiction and recovery. His drug use started by experimenting with different drugs throughout his adolescent years, until injuries from a car accident started him on pain killers. This quickly led to an escalating addiction of various opiates.
Brought up in a good family who gave him a lot of opportunity, Darwish never thought he would end up a drug addict. Ramsy struggled with prescription pain medication addiction for many years and burnt most of his bridges, until his family intervened and got him help through the Narconon drug and alcohol rehabilitation program. A long-term inpatient drug treatment program, Narconon has treated thousand of clients for addiction to prescription drugs and maintained an over 70% success rate for permanent addiction recovery.
On CNN news, Darwish explained that using prescription drugs helped him deal with emotional and physical pain and that typically people start to abuse prescription drugs as a way to handle personal loss and various other problems instead of the original physical pain that the original prescription was written for. Once thoroughly addicted to the drugs, the drug use creates more and more problems for the person and their family. The only answer lies only in successful drug treatment.
Ramsy’s experience is one example of this. Unlike many who have lost their lives as a result of substance abuse, he was able to fully recover from his addiction and been stably off drugs for several years and is happily married. Since his recovery, Ramsy trained to become an addiction counselor and is now employed at the Narconon Freedom Treatment Program in Albion, Michigan.
The Narconon Freedom Center program in Michigan has helped well over 1000 people successfully recover from addiction and has been treating clients from all over the Midwest and northeast for more than 7 years.
Whether a person is a celebrity, loved one, family member or friend, if they are addicted to prescription drugs, they don’t have to end up like Michael Jackson or Heath Ledger. Successful recovery from prescription drug abuse is possible. Contact Narconon Freedom Center today at 877-362-9682 for an effective drug treatment program.
