Suncoast Rehabilitation Center uses the Narconon program – a program used all around the world. With the Narconon program, there is a high success rate in getting and keeping people off drugs. The clear majority of program graduates remain free from drugs. This it is due to the fact that our program addresses the reason someone gets involved in drugs in the first place, as well as the physical residue left by drugs. Because of our great success rate, the centers who deliver the Narconon program have many happy and healthy graduates. Here K.B., a graduate, chose to share his story:
INTERVIEWER: What is your story?
K.B.: I was smoking a lot of pot and drinking, and living in California with a dead-end job. It was when I was 27 years old and my fiancé had just broken up with me. I was completely miserable and was smoking a lot of weed. My brother’s friend cooked meth. I had done meth before, but I didn’t like it much. I mostly hung out with a lot of pot smokers.
My brother’s friend was really hooked on meth. He taught me how to smoke it, so I
Within three months I had lost my job and I was hanging out with criminals and tweakers (slang for methamphetamine addicts, referring to repetitive, compulsive behavior often engaged in by such addicts). Like real criminals. Like I saw huge drug deals go down in my apartment. They let me have a thousand dollars worth of meth to do deals in my home, so I let them. I had no money. I started seeing aliens. I started shooting meth. I OD’d for three days and called my dad while I was OD’d.
INTERVIEWER: Why did you call your dad?
K.B.: The phone told me to. I literally was ODing and I stood in a phone booth and the little glowing screen on the pay phone said, “Call your dad”, so I did. Within about an hour police were there, about to pick me up, when my dad pulled up and said he’d take care of me. The next day I was at a the rehab center where I got clean. He saved my life.
INTERVIEWER: Tell me what happened in that time period when you were on meth.
K.B.: Well, one thing you have to understand is that meth is a messed up drug. The hallucinations are totally real. Like, the drug pulls memories that you actually have from the past and puts that situation in front of you. It was like this conversation we are having right now was really happening to me but not for anyone else who wasn’t tripping.
Also, these criminals I got involved with – I went from paying $100 for a 10 oz bag of meth from someone in college to seeing hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of deals go down right in front of me within three months.
Meth is a trip – you put it into a pipe and light it up until it becomes cool and then reheat it and smoke it. You can ask anyone who has smoked meth, but it’s like a total spiritual connection to the part where it cools (the cooling process is called “cracking up” and makes the meth look like ice). Smoking meth destroys you spiritually. It’s the hardest drug to handle. Every single user ends up seeing aliens, FBI and police when on meth. I actually thought I’d been abducted for a long time – even after being off meth.
INTERVIEWER: What was your rehab like?
K.B.: At rehab, it’s like going to battle as a rookie soldier. I started out kind of terrified. But after a month there I felt warm and welcomed – like everyone there really wanted to help you. I felt like it really was my group. I ended up working there for years after I graduated.
The program itself really cleaned me up. I felt taken care of. It really got me responsible. Meth addicts are some of the hardest to handle, but they got me through my addiction and back into life.
Now, I have my own business, I’m married, and my wife and I have a baby on the way. I couldn’t be happier with my life. Completing the Narconon program gave me the responsibility I needed to start my own business and have a successful relationship.
If you know someone who has started on the dangerous path of taking recreational drugs like meth, contact us. We can help you be the life saver in their story. Contact us today at 877-850-7355.
