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How to Handle Loved Ones Refusing to Get Help?

The situation that most families find themselves in is that they want desperately to help the addicted person, but he (or she) refuses help. He doesn’t want help, he doesn’t need their help, he can handle it on his own, he says. Or he claims there...

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Helping an Addict

A family trying to help an addicted person very often struggles with this problem for years. If their loved one loses a job or several jobs, they help him (or her) find another one. If he is ill, they pay for medical care.

Twenty-five years ago I was working as a consultant for CARF (Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities) where I had surveyed over 150 programs throughout the world. I was contacted by a Narconon Center and asked if I would be available to help them become CARF accredited.

DRUG INFORMATION

Xanax Abuse and Addiction

Xanax Abuse and Addiction Xanax, generic name: Alprazolam, is a Central Nervous System (CNA) depressant within the category of drugs known as benzodiazepines, which includes many other tranquilizers such as Ativan, Valium and Librium.

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Drug-Free Rehab — How does it work?

Talking about a drug-free rehab requires some clarification. A rehab is not the same thing as a medical detox. Med detox helps a person through a dangerous withdrawal, as happens after long, heavy alcohol consumption, or lengthy use of benzodiazepines.

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What to expect when my loved one goes to rehab at Narconon?

This is a very good question for a family to ask when sending a loved one to a Narconon rehab center. The family is going to play an important role in the person’s recovery—all the way through the recovery program and even after he (or she) comes home.

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Finding addiction In loved ones

A family becomes so used to caring for, loving and trusting other family members that when one of them becomes addicted, it can be hard to take it all in. Parents who raised a beautiful child watch him (or her) slip away into some kind of ugliness.

Sports and Drugs It isn’t uncommon to read about professional athletes being caught using illicit drugs.

When expectant mothers use methamphetamine (meth) during pregnancy they are, without their awareness, causing brain abnormalities in their unborn children to an extent that only been recognized in the past ten-years.

Many people want to know “How do people change when they are addicted”. They may need an answer to this question because they suspect one of their friends or family members are beginning to show differences in behaviors that they can’t reconcile as being anything other than drug related.

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What Should I Ask When Selecting a Drug Rehab Center?

Ask about the Length of the Program Perhaps the most important thing to ask when selecting a drug rehab center for a loved one is whether or not this program results in true sobriety.