Narconon Drug Rehab Review: Combat Veteran and Former Special Forces Officer
Wow. It took me a long time to get to this point. But, man, it was worth it. I fought this program most of the way. Withdrawal makes total sense. The Detox/Purification AKA “sauna” is so obvious I don’t know why it’s not standard practice. If it took 42 days to get all of the residual substances out of my system, how can a 28 day total program expect to achieve the same results where I would have still been trying to deal with or learn while I was still under the influence?
“For the first time in over a decade,
I knew my body was clean.”
For the first time in over a decade, I knew my body was clean. I continued to progress even after the sauna by continuing to take daily vitamins and doing physical fitness, gaining 15-20 lbs of healthy weight.
Objectives confused the hell out of me for the longest time. What I didn’t know was my brain was working without informing me. I would be getting tired from the miles of walking, frustrated from the repetitive commands and my twin’s actions and all of a sudden, “BAM” a realization! Most of the time I had to be pushed to let it out, so I apologize.
Life Skills was another fight. Why would anyone care about my life story? What it did was lay out a timeline of where I managed to start destroying myself. The work in the Ups and Downs course showed me who helped and who just enjoyed watching me self-destruct. It really was pretty obvious. Personal Values forced me to look at the individual acts. I, of course, didn’t understand how much damage I created, starting A LONG WAY back. I was forced to look at not just the laws I had broken, but promises to others and myself, the responsibilities I had shied from or dismissed, and how I had failed myself, my family, work and society causing danger along the way with only selfishness in my head.
Conditions I actually enjoyed. The work, not so much, but the result. Now I have identified who I hurt and how. It gave me a starting point to at least try to make amends. I’ve now come on as staff at Narconon so I can pay forward everything this program has done for me.
—Dennis, Narconon Suncoast Graduate
