I Started Living!

A parent tells their child, “Don’t smoke weed! If you do, you’ll get very sick and die!

The child nods his head in agreement and goes outside to play. There he sees a bunch of older boys smoking the mentioned weed.

The child curiously watches the boys, waiting for them to start falling dead. But look, AMAZING! Not only are they not dying, they aren’t even getting sick. On the contrary—they seem to be brightening up, they’re happily chatting, drinking soda and aren’t even thinking of dying.

So now to that child their parent is a liar.

I started at 15. I started smoking because a guy I knew lost a game of cards to me and paid me in hash. I didn’t want to take it at first, but all my close friends already smoked at that time, so they talked me into taking it. When I hit 16, I was smoking it daily, sometimes even more often than cigarettes. At 17, it was pills and other equally interesting experiments with my mind and my health as a bonus. At 18, I realized that something is going wrong in my life, my life was meaningless. So I decided to run away from this life and join the Army.

The army was where I started shooting meth, then opium. I failed to get away. I came back from the Army under a dose of opium.

Then the age of cheap and easily accessible heroin had started. People were queuing up to the gypsies to get their high. I was the first in line.

Happy young man

Then my father found out that I was an addict. He offered rehabilitation. I wanted to quit, of course, and so began the rehabilitation period. My life had split into two cycles—the first— being treated in yet another rehab, the second—heroin. I have gone through it all—mental hospitals, special centers, psychologists, mediums, and doctors, old women putting spells on water and plenty of other things. Between them all there was only opium.

I went to Narconon without any real hope. But just as soon as I arrived at the center, I saw the rehabilitation process, I realized it was fundamentally different from all the things I did before. I started the program and began to change. This road was neither easy nor fast, but it was effective. You can’t put a price on this program.

I’m 33 now. I’ve lived without drugs of any kind for 10 years now. Moreover, I’ve quit smoking 5 years ago. I have a wonderful family with my wife and son (and I told him the whole truth instead of saying “you’ll die if you smoke hash!”).

Narconon has not only helped me quit drugs, but it’s helped me open up as an individual. I’m happy and I enjoy life, which is something I’ve learned to do only because of the technology I got at Narconon.

I started LIVING!

M.P. - Narconon Graduate

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