When I first arrived here, I immediately felt relieved, comforted, and not lonely anymore. I felt ready to face my problems.
Narconon has helped me tremendously to start on my journey towards discovering myself in the here and now.
My relationship with my family is getting better and I am thankful to be able to have a fresh start with them: Introduce the new Emma to them!
The hardest or worst part about dealing with an addicted child is it just breaks your heart because there’s nothing you can do to help, and you just feel helpless. That is what I think is the worst thing—you are helpless.
I was born in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. I had a good early start of my life in Jeddah and then I moved to Montréal, Canada. I finished my college degree and then I headed back to Jeddah to start my career. I had studied civil engineering in college.
I had a wonderful life before I started doing drugs. I was a very successful entrepreneur from age 15 in India. Then I started here in the UK with a number of successful businesses and we ran a number of businesses in food and drink, including food exports.
To those struggling with addiction now, you can make it to the other side. It is ok to be without drugs or alcohol in your life. The downward spiral is inevitable. I believe that Narconon is a programme of willingness. At the point of which you feel that...
After using drugs and alcohol for 15 years and several failed attempts at rehab, I found the Narconon Programme. I used drugs and alcohol for 15 years, since the age of 13. At the age of 24, I decided to go into drug rehabilitation. My physical and mental...
Before I got to Narconon I knew I had a problem with cocaine, and quite severe, but did not realize how bad it had affected me physically and, most of all, mentally. If I had known about the material of the programme before starting, I would have said,...
Where do I start my story? When my son was about 15/16 years old he started giving us trouble at home. He became volatile, critical and sour to have around. It kind of crept up slowly though—not an overnight thing. He had friends I didn’t like and...
Perhaps our greatest joy is to be found in the life that we invest in others. That is something which will always be out of reach once your life is consumed by drugs.
A candid interview with a Narconon graduate.
Narcotic addiction is a social ill that seems to know no boundaries. Virtually every culture I have worked in around the world is wrapped in the throes of addiction—especially among the younger generations. Real solutions are demanded on the drug education...
It is probably a good idea right at the start to define addiction so there is no mistake as to what it is and what one is dealing with, after all, one can be addicted to aspirin as well as drugs sold illegally on the street.
I have two members of my family who got all the way through school, one private, one public, without touching any drugs, because of talks I had with them when they were quite young. My first story is about a boy who was eleven at the time…
To begin with, you may be under the impression that it is illegal to actually smoke marijuana (cannabis roll your own) or eating it, (as part of a cake recipe or chocolate brownies ingredient. It isn't. What is illegal is to be in possession of it.
When I look back, for me it all started in Manchester in the “Summer of Love“ of 1988. Acid House had hit the UK via Ibiza, and the clubs were buzzing with a new wave of electronic dance music and a new drug called ecstasy…
Oman skyline at sunset Al Sahawat Times is a daily print and digital broadsheet newspaper originating from Oman. It boasts an innovative News Code of Ethics which it displays in its papers and on its online news portals.
There are certain rules of life that everyone must follow. These rules are the ones that come at great cost to oneself if they are broken. If you are not caught for a crime, it does not mean that for that particular crime there is no cost, for it broke...
Insanity by definition is repeating the same mistakes over and over again and expecting a different result. I have tried so many things to get clean in the past but have always gone back to drugs.…