My Experience with Drugs

I had a circle of friends who started experimenting with drugs at 17 to 19 years old. I personally also tried light drugs several times—the effect being more irresponsibility and a kind of loss of control. Some of my friends began taking drugs on a regular basis and switched to harder drugs. Their behavior became more irresponsible or sometimes very aggressive in certain situations and I had not experienced this behavior before with them.

In the course of a short time (perhaps 2 or 3 years) at least 2 of my friends died as a result of these hard drugs. Over the years, I lost a few other good acquaintances to drug abuse. I then spent some time doing volunteer work talking about drug hotspots with drug addicts. Most came from difficult social milieus and grew up in public institutions or boarding schools. Unfortunately, they have already received the most addictive medicines (antipsychotic drugs) from official authorities in order to calm them down.

Teens smoking pot
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The addicts told me that these childhood experiences involving antipsychotic drugs were their entrance into the drug scene. The official treatment made available to drug addicts by government agencies is often to switch these individuals from one kind of drug to another form of prescribed drugs. In Austria, there are very few places for drug addicts to go to rehabilitate. If they do manage to find a rehab location, there is such a long waiting list that unfortunately some of them have already passed away.

This, in a nutshell, is my experience with drugs and drug abuse.

Narconon certainly helps drug addicts—it is the only drug rehabilitation program I know that really helps and achieves results. And it’s worth calling it a drug rehabilitation program.

Kind regards,

M.N.—Narconon Europe Graduate

AUTHOR

Elvis

Elvis has been helping people since early stages of his life. His devotion to helping led him to join staff at a Narconon drug rehabilitation center to help people recover from their addictions to drug or alcohol.

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