Narconon Saved My Son’s Life

Mother and son

I want to tell you the truth on how I came to this idea: The idea and decision to be the leadership against the struggle of the drug phenomena in Albania.

I have worked for many years as a teacher in many general schools during the communist regime in Albania. Drug phenomena didn’t exist in our country before. After 1991, Albanian people overthrew the communist regime and Albania became a democratic country. Borders were opened and the first victims of drugs were seen in Albania.

One of these victims was my son.

I was a proud and successful mother until one day I saw my son completely drunk. He was 22 when he started to live a life hiding from drugs and alcohol.

Our family was destroyed by the most devastating thing I had ever seen.

We watched someone who we loved very much, being destroyed before our eyes.

Every time I tell the story, it opens the wounds that still have not fully healed, but I hope that my story will give strength and courage and hope to everybody who thinks that he or she is hopeless.

One day a car crash occurred near the beach. The police identified the person and it was my son. Everybody thought he was dead. I went to the hospital and saw him—he was lucky. He was still alive. The accident happened as a result of drinking much alcohol.

In the hospital I talked to him and told him not to drink alcohol anymore. He was a cool and sincere boy. He told me that he had made a very big mistake. He told me that he was a heroin user and asked me for help. First I was shocked. How can I watch my son slowly die before my eyes and stand by helplessly? My son’s life was about to be claimed before my eyes by this thing called addiction.

Saving my son became my obsession. I thought I had found the way to protect him, but no success. We tried several times, through our own initiative and through programs to manage his life. Still without success. The more he went downward, the more I went to the depth of hell. Addiction is evil. It isolates families from friends and co-workers. I decided not to keep secrets any more and not suffer alone because of stigma.

Addiction thrives on shame, guilt and lies. The most devastating part of it is that it steals the soul and leaves behind the shell of someone you once knew and loved.

I am compelled to tell this story because we can no longer turn a blind eye to this, all too common problem.

This is not my story only. It is your neighbor’s story, a friend’s story, a relative’s story. And the problem isn’t just with illicit drugs like heroin, cocaine and marijuana. It also involves alcohol and prescription drugs.

From this most devastating experience, I made it my personal mission in my life to tell others who were in the same situation, that something must be done, or else we will loose our children.

I wrote e-mails to different rehabilitation centers across Europe and asked for help. Fortunately an answer came back from Narconon Europe. A lady there told me her own story and advised me to send my son to the Narconon rehabilitation facility in Denmark.

I sent my son to Narconon Europe so that he could get the remaining drugs out of his body and learn how to handle problems in life without drugs.

I can only sincerely thank Narconon, as they did not only give me back my son as a healthy man—body and soul—after a four-month program. I came to know him once again and for the first time as an adult (drugs had changed his personality very much, for many years). And I am delighted. He is happily married. He now has a healthy and beautiful son. He plans for the future and became a friend to me and assists me when I need an advice. Lost years can not be regained, but now he can spend the future as a happy and worthy man in society.

Although this has been the longest and the hardest struggle of my life, please know there is hope. Do not give up your loved ones even if they stumble over and over.

There is real hope. My son is a perfect example. He is now happier than he has ever been.”

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AUTHOR

Ashutosh kumar kasyap

I am Computer Graduate and MBA with a passion for helping people get off drugs. I enjoy working at Narconon as this has provided me with the opportunity to help others.

NARCONON EUROPE

DRUG EDUCATION AND REHABILITATION