Families Facing Addiction Newsletter, February 2009 — Getting Your Loved Ones Back
Drug and alcohol abusers have one thing in common: they are acting like they’re someone else. That’s often how they justify the lying, slowly destroying themselves and others; it wasn’t them that did it. They lose themselves to substance abuse.
Addicts and Alcoholics Lose Control of Themselves
One of the most trying problems families experience is that drug and alcohol abusers act like drugs and alcohol are more important than their own responsibilities. Family, intimates, kids and even their own bodies are neglected, abused and used. Why is this?
Part of the reason is that the effects of drugs and alcohol cravings, depression and guilt drive the person to go back to substance abuse. The after effects of using drugs, and alcohol is the most popular drug, depresses the entire body and mind. They feel hung over and weakened.
These drugs are depleting them of vitality, nutrients and life with every use. Cocaine, meth, heroin, oxy, pills etc don’t give the person more energy, happiness or calmness.
“Drugs trigger the body and mind into stress reactions and force the body to act differently”
Drugs stimulate and depress specific process, sometimes at multiple times. For example when a person takes heroin they can have pain receptors blocked, muscle activity slowed or depressed and pleasure centers stimulated. The body, mind and spirit are triggered into acting by the drugs.
But drugs actually don’t do anything for the person. Drugs aren’t nutrients. No abused drug gives a person something that is inherently needed. Narcotics are parasites of life, they are not givers of life.
People living naturally create or derive all the sensations available to a person.
Drugs and alcohol force the body to act in unnatural ways. Drugs use up reserves of life energy and age the individual unnaturally. When all nutrients are not available, drugs rob minerals and vitamins from the bones, organs and nervous system. Other times the immune system is ravaged by toxic drugs and the person is chronically sick, feeling badly or unable to experience happiness naturally.
The drugs and alcohol are wasting the person’s living resources and stressing them out so much that they may be aging rapidly. Many drug and alcohol users look years and decades older than they are in actual years.
Drug abusers are driven to serve drug dealers and their own single mindedness without regard to other responsibilities
Looking at an addict or alcoholic in action, one can become convinced that they don’t care about anyone else. Sometimes this is true, but usually it is false. If a loved one has really demonstrated love, care and compassion in the past; if they’ve tried numerous times to quit and get their lives back together; they’re totally worth helping and saving.
“People who are trying to turn their lives around and are staying clean for long periods of time are really working at making a change in their lives”
But they lack or don’t have real or effective skills and abilities to change conditions in their lives. Not having the skills of remaining drug and alcohol free is not a crime.
The question every family member or loved one has to ask themselves is: does this person deserve a hand up and out of inability? A low cost opportunity is to begin by giving them an at-home program to try right away. Get the At Home Withdrawal and Recovery Plan now. This Detox At Home Video gives excellent advices on how to end cravings, feel better, help sleep and reduce anxiety right NOW.
Inabilities often manifest as low spirits, continual mistakes and hopelessness.
I’d like to invite you to re-watch or listen to the audio on ‘Intervention’ and the video ’7 Steps to Overcoming Addiction’ in the membership area. Get your loved one to go to www.detox-narconon.org and read our home page. This often really makes sense to a person struggling with their cravings, guilt and depression.
Finally there is a way out of addiction. That road ends and a new life begins.
Give me a call. I’d love to help you get someone you care about to one of our effective detox and rehab centers in the US, Canada or the UK.
Tibor A. Palatinus, CCDC
Drug Rehab Consultant
1-866-266-6616
