I Was Living a Real Nightmare-I Was a Heroin Addict!
I am 49 and I live in Pula, Croatia.
From 1991 to 1994, I participated in war in which former Yugoslavia was falling apart. Just like any other war, this one was filled with blood, pain and misery which we were forced to confront every day. I saw my friends starving, getting injured or even killed. It was hard to face it. Then one day someone gave me a pill and said it will make me feel better and the pain will go away. So I took it. And then I took another one, and another one and guess what… he was right. It was true, it did release the pain.
About a year later I went back home. Without the pills. Then I started having nightmares about war fields and all of my dead friends, and the pain came back. Then someone showed up again and said he had something that would make the pain go away, that would make me feel better. That was heroin. So I took it. And it did make me feel better. The nightmares were gone. At least for a while.
Then the real nightmare begun, not the one I was dreaming, but the one I was actually living.
I was an addict, heroin addict. Heroin became number one in my life. And with the time it destroyed everything that was good in my life, my health, my family, my home.
In 1997 I heard about Narconon, so I went there to see what it was all about. I did try to get off drugs few times before, but I never made it.
But the Narconon Program did it. After only one week of staying in Narconon I knew it would help me change my life. In the first week I went trough the withdrawal without any drugs or pills and it didn’t hurt me as much as I thought it would.
I was surrounded with people that were always there for me, full of support and understanding. I trusted them. I was getting better with every step of the program. I felt the old me coming back, the improved me. Not only did I get a new, better, drug free life, but I also met all kinds of people and made some friends that I will never forget.
Every step of the program was a new, fulfilling, improving experience that gave me back the control of my life. It made me see the real world and understand what drugs really had done to me: they destroyed me.
I’ve been clean for 20 years now, I have a loving wife, two kids and a very nice life.
All thanks to Narconon and its staff!
I.P.—Narconon Graduate
