Why Drug Abusers Lie and How to Get Them to Tell The Truth
Narconon’s philosophy of rehabilitation is simple: help the person to take control of their own lives. Fee people, even drug addicts wouldn’t argue with you about wanting more self control.
Drug Abusers Lie – But Not About Everything
A drug abuser is so used to creating their own world that reality doesn’t always neatly fit in to their version of the truth. But some even lie about their personal truth. Before going further, there are 2 brands of truth.
- Mutually agreed upon truth
- Personal truth
Reality covers the first truth, mutually agreed upon truth. No one can dispute reality, yet there are many different viewpoints and views of the same reality. Often times reality isn’t fully perceived by a drug abuser. That’s the whole point of doing drugs or getting drunk, to take a short vacation from one’s own view of reality.
The second, personal truth, is not subject to agreement. Imagination, creativity and plans are not yet ‘real’ but they can very well be the truth. Truths such as: “I’m going to go to Italy next year” or “Someday I’ll make a contribution to society which really does make a difference”. These are truths of a different nature.
Drug Abuse & Confusing Reality
Drugs such as psychotropics, pharmaceutical mind altering drugs aka ‘legal’ drugs, and street drugs those known specifically for their mind bending potential are taken to alter either the filter through which we see the world or directly alter our experience of reality. Our experience of reality is modified by removing, altering or adding different perceptions of life.
The purpose of drug abuse is to see if by taking enough drugs the world around will change, get better or go away. For a short time drug abusers would swear that their world shifted, that everything was great and couldn’t be better. When the hangover hits, they either begin to come to grips with the hole they’re digging themselves into or they chase the high – continuing abusing drugs.
Drug Abuse Is Not What People Say
Drug abusers say they are happy when under the influence. Usually a drug abuser is talking about or referring to the sensation or emotion they feel when drug effects kick in.
That ‘feeling’ or ‘sensation’ or ‘emotion’ which is triggered by drugs is usually similar to some other feeling they had when something they wanted to happen was happening. It could have been being drunk in a bar and meeting someone special. It may have been hurting like hell and suddenly feeling relief. Or they may have imagined a better life or a place when they felt just right and that drug feeling was present.
The drugged feeling becomes the ‘trigger’ to the way they hope to feel.
Getting Personal
If you really want to venture into someones deep self, ask they what they want to feel like on their best high. Who would be there? How would they be treated? How do they think of themselves? These are very personal questions which a drug abuser often keeps very well guarded. It’s well guarded because those could unlock the door to the reason they abuse drugs.
To really communicate well with a drug abuser, realize they lie and tell the truth. Sometimes it requires a really good ability to differentiate between these times. They won’t act rationally, even to the truth. But there are times of truth.
Getting Drug Abusers To Tell the Truth
The best way to get a drug abuser to tell the truth is to first get yourself educated on how to speak with a drug abuser, what to say and what not to do. Many actions will be counter productive and other actions will be vital to do. Do you know which are which?
Learning how to get a drug abuser to tell the truth is simple. We created a short free course you can do. It should take you about 1 hour or so to do the online course. You can access this free course by becoming a ‘Families Facing Addiction Survival Guide’ on Detox-Narconon.
Learning how to talk to a drug abuser is step one of getting them ready to go to rehab. The key to getting them to go to rehab is to find something they want more than drug delusion. Believe it or not, finding something a drug abuser will honestly tell you they want and would give up their ‘love’ for takes attentive listening.
Tibor A. Palatinus, Detox Narconon
