addiction
Rapper Lil’ Boosie Sentenced
You would think that being incarcerated would make it tough to commit crimes, but if you’re Baton Rouge rapper Lil Boosie, you find a way. On November 29, local hip-hop star Torrence Hatch, known by his stage name Lil Boosie, plead guilty to conspiring to smuggle codeine syrup, marijuana, and ecstasy into two Louisiana state [...]
Drugs Cause a Dwindling Spiral of Life Problems
An addict is involved in what is called a dwindling spiral. This is a downward path into further and further depression, out of control feelings and hopelessness. Now is the time to do something before the addicted person winds up in jail or dead from an overdose or accident. In the past there have been [...]
Heroin User Gets Clean
Heroin is a highly addictive drug. Users of heroin start and then they cannot stop because the urge to continue is strong and you just can’t fight it. So you keep taking the drug so you don’t feel the withdrawals. Take for instance one heroin addict we’ll call her Miss A. She started using heroin [...]
Education on Heroin
About Heroin Addiction Heroin is a highly addictive narcotic. This year alone, it has been reported that there are 810,000 Americans addicted to heroin. What is the cost of that figure to society? The price is in the billions. Let’s divide where this money goes. Heroin abuse gives an individual health problem like heart infections, [...]
Maryland Marijuana Drug Threat Assessment
Marijuana is the most available, commonly abused illicit drug in Maryland. Most of the marijuana in Maryland is produced in Mexico, but some of it is produced in Maryland. Some local dealers cultivate cannabis indoors and outdoors. Those who do marijuana are usually not violent, but violence in Maryland is up because of marijuana distribution [...]
Narconon graduates find the way to happiness
Do you know what true happiness is? Being able to live a happy life does not have to be a challenging experience. By the end of the program at Narconon Riverbend, our student has gone through withdrawals with 24/7 assistance. He or she has gone through a detoxification program which has cleansed drugs and toxins [...]
Our Clients Graduate Able to Solve Their Own Problems
What is a condition? It is a state that something is in. As we live our lives we have problems we make choices and decisions and so our life is lived. Sometimes we don’t make the right decisions and we end up spinning our lives out of control. Now what we get with that is [...]
Rehabilitating the Addict’s Integrity
What are personal values and integrity? Integrity is when you know something is true and you stick by it and you don’t change it no matter what your friends or family says. That is integrity. This affects your personal values tremendously. So you have to be able to see for yourself what is true and [...]
How Bad Influences Drive Addictive Behavior
Today we are going to talk about the people in our lives. Yes, all of those lovely people who sometimes try to stop you in your actions or they don’t have such good opinions about you and they don’t hesitate telling you about it. In other words they invalidate you and squash you. Sometimes these [...]
The Road Out from Drug Abuse and Addiction
Wouldn’t it be wonderful to go to an on-site drug-free rehab program which allows you to overcome the immediate drug cravings and withdrawals? That’s one of the benefits that Narconon Riverbend is most famous for. Our program gets you through withdrawals and with no usual agony. We believe that it makes no sense that a [...]
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