Marijuana is the most commonly used drug in the world. It has been estimated that in 2007 14.4 million individuals in the U.S alone had smoked marijuana on at least one occasion during the previous month. Marijuana is usually smoked as a cigarette or out of a pipe, and at times it is mixed with food or brewed as tea.

Contrary to what many believe, marijuana is a dangerous drug that has many side effects. Because people build up a tolerance to marijuana, a person has to continue to use more and more marijuana in order to attain the desired effect, and as a result can become addicted very quickly. Marijuana is considered a gateway drug that can lead a person into illicit drug use.

If you or anyone you know is addicted to marijuana please call SuccessfulRehabServices on our toll-free Addiction Helpline at 1-877-873-8532. We provide substance abuse counselors who are available to answer any questions you may have regarding drugs, and to assist you in getting the help that you or your loved one needs. You are also welcome to visit our website at www.SuccessfulRehabServices for further information.

There is hope.

It is possible to live a drug-free life.

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Many experienced drug rehab professionals are not enthused about the prospect of a new “wonder drug” that will treat cocaine addiction with any success. “It is just history repeating itself in regard to drug addiction,” said one Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor in Oklahoma. “In the 1800’s heroin was invented and promoted to treat morphine and opium addiction. Morphine addicts became heroin addicts. Methadone, developed by the Nazi’s during World War II, was promoted as a cure to treat heroin addiction in the early 1970’s. Subsequently heroin addicts became methadone addicts. Then came suboxone to treat methadone addiction leading to methadone users getting hooked on suboxone and so the story goes. Developing new drugs to treat drug addiction has not worked, history tells us that.”

It is well known that a large portion of the addiction treatment industry has settled on substitute medications as a means to prevent addicts from falling back into their unhealthy lifestyle. According to one drug rehab professional, “The problem with this approach is that it does not help the individual discover and deal with the initial problems that lead them in the direction of drug addiction in the first place. We have found that the solution to solving addiction is to help the person rehabilitate themselves as opposed to ‘treating’ the symptoms of drug addiction for an indefinite and ongoing period of time.”

An effective and successful rehabilitation program we refer our clients to uses a thorough biophysical detoxification program followed by counseling and life skills training to bring about recovery from addiction. Drug replacement–one drug used to replace another drug—is NOT used, so when a person completes this rehab program they are completely drug-free. The length of this program varies from person to person, but on the average it takes three to five months. It therefore meets most long-term rehab requirements of the courts in cases of requests for alternative sentencing to rehab in preference to the addict doing jail time.

If someone you know is struggling with an addiction to drugs or alcohol and you want to help them achieve lasting recovery, please contact us on our toll-free Addiction Helpline at 877-873-8532, or through this website at www.drug-addiction-rehab.net.

There is hope. It is possible to live a drug-free life.

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Cocaine is a very deadly substance that has many serious side effects. Some of the side effects are:

•Permanent damage to blood vessels of the heart and brain
•High blood pressure, leading to heart attacks, strokes, and death
•Liver, kidney and lung damage
•Respiratory failure, if smoked
•Infectious diseases and abscesses, if injected

Do not let cocaine claim another life. If you or anyone you know is addicted to cocaine, please call us today on our toll-free Addiction Helpline at 1-877-873-8532. We have substance abuse counselors available to answer any questions you may have regarding drugs, and who can help you find the kind of treatment that is right for you.

There is hope.

It is possible to live a drug-free life.

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Organizations currently trying to stop The MOTHERS Act include:

ICFDA: International Coalition For Drug Awareness; The Law Project for Psychiatric Rights; ICSPP: International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology; NARPA: National Association for Rights Protection and Advocacy; AHRP: The Alliance for Human Research Protection; COPES: Coalition Of Parents Enduring Suicide; The Elizabeth Torlakson Foundation; CHAADA: Children and Adults Against Drugging America; MADNAP: Mothers Against Drugging the Nursing And Pregnant; Consumer Wellness Center; Parents for a Label and Drug Free Education; Texans for a Safe Education; Whitaker Health Freedom Foundation; WoodyMatters; www.wildestcolts.com Supporters; www.adhdfraud.com Supporters; AbleChild; Green Body and Mind; LifeDynamics; Global Suckling Initiative; babywhys.org Supporters; The Wellness Institute

Please consider the following four points of contention with regard to this bill:

1) The MOTHERS Act will assuredly increase prescriptions for antidepressants for both postpartum and pregnant mothers. Based on the FDA’s MedWatch Adverse Events Reporting System data, over the past four years the estimated number of antidepressant-caused infant deaths and injuries was as follows:

4,360 babies born with serious or life-threatening birth defects
4,160 babies born with potentially fatal heart defects or heart disease
2,900 spontaneous abortions
3,000 premature births

2) New Jersey’s 2006 Postpartum Depression law requires medical providers to screen women for mental disorders. Under the impetus of this new law, some New Jersey women were forcibly taken to hospitals in police cars from their homes or doctor’s offices for simply mentioning depressed feelings or calling the state’s PPD hotline (See full text of the Star-Ledger article at http://www.netpowwow.com/unite011109/ppdcriminals.htm).

3) The namesake of the bill is Melanie Blocker Stokes, a mother who jumped to her death from the 12th story of a Chicago hotel at 3 � months postpartum, following months of treatment including four hospitalizations, at least four different drug cocktails, and electroshock therapy. Only after she was treated with drugs documented by the FDA to cause suicidal ideation did she jump out of that window.

4) Numerous victims have spoken out against this bill, including many who currently have pending lawsuits against drug companies for deaths and birth defects. In addition, there are literally thousands of antidepressant birth defects and suicide lawsuits pending. States are suing drug manufacturers for illegal marketing of psychotropic drugs, and the State of Alaska is being sued for drugging children in state care. If the Federal Government sponsors another drugging program, it is simply asking for lawsuits to be filed, as more mothers are injured and more babies killed.

What could possibly justify the risks that The MOTHERS Act poses to unborn babies and their mothers? Please speak out and ask the 111th Congress not to be the group to pass this bill to increase infant deaths via fatal birth defects and unwanted, drug-induced spontaneous abortions. Considering the many lives of helpless unborn babies at stake, we must all UNITE to kill this legislation.

http://www.uniteforlife.org/

Please sign the Petition here: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/stop-the-dangerous-and-invasive-mothers-act

The addict’s greatest demon however, is not the Meth he smokes, or the heroin he shoots. It is not in the money he lost or the disease he found. Families spend inordinate amounts of energy pursuing proof of their presence and proving their use, and yet, at the end of the day, the solution is not their removal.

An addict who is stuck in life, depressed, isolated, not behaving rationally, leading a life of dishonesty and shame, buried in guilt and defended by rage, is up against much more than drugs. His problem living life is based on a massively altered survival system, affecting every area of his life. Drugs, which at first may have been used recreationally, become an anesthetic to the resulting pain.

Addicts who become stuck in life evolve into this condition over time. They start out a bit bent and depressed and then they continue to do things that go against their own moral or ethical grain. Later, they may become hostile and more isolated as their transgressions against themselves and others pile up, as more and more feelings of guilt, shame, anger and regret melt together, becoming a blackness in the addicts heart. Things like betrayal, deception, theft, the commission of crimes or felonies, the drug abuse itself, simple meanness and whatever else the average addict is engaged in, weigh down upon him very heavily (whether he will admit to it or not). Typically, there are thousands of moments that can hang an addict up, sucking up his attention, and making him unable to operate.

While on the subject of drugs being used as a solution - it is important to note that inasmuch as an addict may wish it, happiness cannot be found in a bottle of pills, even if they are prescribed. This is one of the grave pitfalls of psychotropic drug use. They do not “fix” one, repair one’s conscience, a persons sense of loyalty, their ability to be honest, or their integrity. Drugs, whether provided under the law and distributed by a pharmacy, do not provide better decisions in life. These things take time and hard work to repair.

The fact that life is difficult is not a “disorder,” and may become even more difficult if one becomes dependent on more drugs to solve life’s problems. Drugs are not the problem to begin with and are not the solution in the end. This is why long term, residential treatment, and complete freedom from all drugs and alcohol is the correct goal for almost all interventions.

Successful treatment centers spend their time returning individuals to a balanced and controlled state of being, repairing a persons orientation in life. A person who is in good shape in terms of his integrity, his ethics, his identity and so on will handle his life, and his circumstances will fall into place, not the other way around.

Take for example, any man or woman addicted to drugs or alcohol and move them a thousand miles away from where they are. Invariably their problems follow.

If a person is able to confront his life and repair the damage of his past in an organized, supervised and supportive atmosphere, and if in doing this he is able to regain his sense of responsibility and identity, then he can be the person who will not go to drugs as a solution any longer. He will be happy and can win in life.

~ Steven Bruno CCDC RAS
Professional Interventionist

Every untreated addict costs the tax payers of this country astonishing amounts of money. Costs to try and incarcerate drug offenders; costs in health care services related to addiction, costs in unemployment benefits, disability funding, costs in social services for drug dependent parents and their children, the spending goes on and on. When you understand this it is not surprising to know that almost 98% of the federal and state budgets to fight substance abuse are going to handle the social issues facing Americans that are created by a lack of drug and alcohol rehabilitation services. ”

The C.A.S.A. report further revealed that for every dollar of the $373.9 billion the federal and state government spent on drug prevention treatment , it cost $59.83 to fund the government and state programs needed to support untreated drug addicts and alcoholics who are in legal trouble, unhealthy or unemployable because of their addiction.

The consensus of a growing number of treatment professionals seems to be that the recent C.A.S.A. study clearly shows that there must be more financial resources piped towards drug and alcohol treatment and prevention services. Not doing so will only continue to waste billions more in tax payer money while the numbers of drug addicted people continue to sky rocket out of control.

If you or someone you love needs help, please call us at 1-877-873-8532 to speak to a Counselor. It is possible to live a drug-free life…

Pfizer to pay record $2.3B penalty for drug promos

Repeat offender Pfizer paying record $2.3B settlement for illegal drug promotions

• By Devlin Barrett, Associated Press Writer
• On Wednesday September 2, 2009, 6:43 pm EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal prosecutors hit Pfizer Inc. with a record-breaking $2.3 billion in fines Wednesday and called the world’s largest drugmaker a repeating corporate cheat for illegal drug promotions that plied doctors with free golf, massages, and resort junkets.

Announcing the penalty as a warning to all drug manufacturers, Justice Department officials said the overall settlement is the largest ever paid by a drug company for alleged violations of federal drug rules, and the $1.2 billion criminal fine is the largest ever in any U.S. criminal case. The total includes $1 billion in civil penalties and a $100 million criminal forfeiture.

Authorities called Pfizer a repeat offender, noting it is the company’s fourth such settlement of government charges in the last decade. The allegations surround the marketing of 13 different drugs, including big sellers such as Viagra, Zoloft, and Lipitor.

As part of its illegal marketing, Pfizer invited doctors to consultant meetings at resort locations, paying their expenses and providing perks, prosecutors said.

“They were entertained with golf, massages, and other activities,” said Mike Loucks, the U.S. attorney in Massachusetts.

Loucks said that even as Pfizer was negotiating deals on past misconduct, they were continuing to violate the very same laws with other drugs.

To prevent backsliding this time, Pfizer’s conduct will be specially monitored by the Health and Human Service Department inspector general for five years.

In an unusual twist, the head of the Justice Department, Attorney General Eric Holder, did not participate in the record settlement, because he had represented Pfizer on these issues while in private practice.

Associate Attorney General Thomas Perrelli said the settlement illustrates ways the Justice Department “can help the American public at a time when budgets are tight and health care costs are rising.”

Perrelli announced the settlement terms at a news conference with federal prosecutors and FBI, and Health and Human Services Department officials.

The settlement ends an investigation that also resulted in guilty pleas from two former Pfizer sales managers.

Officials said the U.S. industry has paid out more than $11 billion in such settlements over the past decade, but one consumer advocate voiced hope that Wednesday’s penalty was so big it would curb the abuses.

“There’s so much money in selling pills, that there’s a tremendous temptation to cheat,” said Bill Vaughan, an analyst at Consumers Union, the nonprofit publisher of Consumer Reports.

“There’s a kind of mentality in this sector that (settlements) are the cost of doing business and we can cheat. This penalty is so huge I think consumers can have some hope that maybe these guys will tighten up and run a better ship.”

The government said the company promoted four prescription drugs, including the pain killer Bextra, as treatments for medical conditions different from those the drugs had been approved for by federal regulators. Authorities said Pfizer’s salesmen and women created phony doctor requests for medical information in order to send unsolicited information to doctors about unapproved uses and dosages.

Use of drugs for so-called “off-label” medical conditions is not uncommon, but drug manufacturers are prohibited from marketing drugs for uses that have not been approved by the Food and Drug Administration. They said the junkets and other company-paid perks were designed to promote Bextra and other drugs, to doctors for unapproved uses and dosages, backed by false and misleading claims about safety and effectiveness.

Bextra, for instance, was approved for arthritis, but Pfizer promoted it for acute pain and surgical pain, and in dosages above the approved maximum. In 2005, Bextra, one of a class of painkillers known as Cox-2 inhibitors, was pulled from the U.S. market amid mounting evidence it raised the risk of heart attack, stroke and death.

A Pfizer subsidiary, Pharmacia and Upjohn Inc., which was acquired in 2003, has entered an agreement to plead guilty to one count of felony misbranding. The criminal case applied only to Bextra.

The $1 billion in civil penalties was related to Bextra and a number of other medicines.

A portion of the civil penalty will be distributed to 49 states and the District of Columbia, according to agreements with each state’s Medicaid program.

Pfizer’s top lawyer, Amy Schulman, said the settlements “bring final closure to significant legal matters and help to enhance our focus on what we do best — discovering, developing and delivering innovative medicines.”

In her statement, Schulman said: “We regret certain actions taken in the past, but are proud of the action we’ve taken to strengthen our internal controls and pioneer new procedures.”

In financial filings in January, the company had indicated that it would pay $2.3 billion over the allegations.

The civil settlement announced Wednesday covered Pfizer’s promotions of Bextra, blockbuster nerve pain and epilepsy treatment Lyrica, schizophrenia medicine Geodon, antibiotic Zyvox and nine other medicines. The agreement with the Justice Department resolves the investigation into promotion of all those drugs, Pfizer said.

The government said Pfizer also paid kickbacks to market a host of big-name drugs: Aricept, Celebrex, Lipitor, Norvasc, Relpax, Viagra, Zithromax, Zoloft, and Zyrtec.

The allegations came to light thanks largely to five Pfizer employees and one Pennsylvania doctor, who will now share $102 million of the settlement money.

FBI Assistant Director Kevin Perkins praised the whistleblowers who decided to “speak out against a corporate giant that was blatantly violating the law and misleading the public through false marketing claims.”

To rein in the abuses, the government’s five-year monitoring will force Pfizer to notify doctors about Wednesday’s agreement, encourage them to report any similar behavior, and publicly post any payments or perks it gives to doctors.

Under terms of the settlement, Pfizer must pay $1 billion to compensate Medicaid, Medicare, and other federal health care programs. Some of that money will be shared among the states: New York, for example, will receive $66 million, according to the state’s attorney general, Andrew Cuomo.

When Pfizer originally disclosed the settlement figure, it also announced plans to acquire rival Wyeth for $68 billion. That deal, which would bolster Pfizer’s position as the world’s top drugmaker by revenue, is expected to close before year’s end.

Shares of Pfizer dropped 14 cents to $16.24 in midday trading.

AP Business Writer Linda A. Johnson in Trenton, N.J., contributed to this report.

    Depression is another factor that keeps an addict harnessed in his addiction. Depression is the source of a constant and significant amount of discomfort that prompts continued use. It is also the second major barrier to successful recovery for those seeking help through treatment.

Some of the traditional medical- and psychiatric-based programs rotely diagnose and treat the depression an addict is experiencing as the root cause of the person’s drug or alcohol problem. In actual fact, more times than not, it is a symptom of the problem that manifested itself after the person had become addicted, not before. Oftentimes, in the course of treatment, psychotropic medications are used which temporarily mask the symptom but does nothing to cure it. As these medications wear off, the depression returns, oftentimes magnified. This makes the recovery process much more difficult, if not nearly impossible, for the addict in treatment.

There are physical and mental mechanics at play that create the state of depression and lethargy an addicted person experiences. At a physical level, most addicts are in a declining or poor state of health. When they are high they are in a euphoric, painless state of mind and are numb to the damage drugs and/or alcohol are causing to their body. When they are sober they have no energy and minor aches and pains are intensified. They are physically spent as a result of the severe nutritional deficiencies that follow long-term drug or alcohol abuse. It is these deficiencies that accelerate poor health and put the person in a physically lethargic condition.

At a mental level, they have a difficult time finding joy or happiness in anything while they are not under the influence. An addict at some point surrenders to the idea that they must be high in order to experience anything at an emotional level. They must be high to celebrate an accomplishment, to escape sadness. They must be high to solve problems, to enjoy sex, to have meaningful relationships, to work or to play. The addict really believes and operates on this principle, numb to the actual fact that the quality of their life and relationships with others are on a downtrending spiral.

To give a layman’s explanation of how and why this barrier of depression exists, let’s look at what is happening to a person’s mind and body as the addiction develops. There is another biophysical aspect to this scenario which is created by the drug’s interaction with the body’s natural chemistry. Some of the body’s natural chemicals act as a built-in reward system that encourages us to eat, exercise and procreate. Other natural chemicals act as painkillers that activate when we physically injure ourselves or are experiencing pain. These natural chemicals are directly related to our drive to maintain our physical well-being in one way or another.

In addition to the presence of drug metabolites in the system and the memories associated with drug and alcohol use as described in Part II of this editorial series, the physical brain of the addicted person also identifies the drug or alcohol as an aid that either enhances or restricts the release of these natural chemicals. In some cases the brain identifies some drugs as superior to the body’s natural chemicals. The brain then substitutes the drugs or alcohol for the body’s natural chemicals. As the person starts to use drugs or alcohol on a regular basis, the body becomes depleted of key nutrients and amino acids. (Amino acids are the building blocks for the body’s natural chemicals.) These nutritional deficiencies prevent the body from receiving the nutritional energy necessary to produce and release the natural chemicals.

In short, the drugs take over the functions of the body’s natural chemicals and the person’s brain and body get fooled into thinking that the drugs or alcohol are the natural chemicals. When drugs or alcohol are present in the addict’s system, the physical perception is that the body chemistry is working and all is well. When the drugs or alcohol leave the addict’s system, the brain and body perceive a deficit of the natural body chemicals which adds to the lethargy and lack of enjoyment an addict experiences when not under the influence of drugs or drink. This condition is what adds to the addict’s compulsion and drive to do more drugs or drink more alcohol, despite the often life-threatening consequences an addict is faced with on a day-to-day basis. The drug or alcohol gets misidentified as an aid to the production and release of the natural chemicals when, in fact, it is suppressing the body’s ability to manufacture them.

One final piece of the depression puzzle is what is actually happening in the addicts’ lives. There are broken relationships, sometimes problems with the law or financial problems. Addicts start to distance themselves from the people they love and becomes more and more withdrawn. They may lose their jobs or start experiencing serious health problems. Basically their lives are going down the toilet and the addicts deep down are not happy about it. They are depressed about these circumstances that for the most part are present because of their addictive lifestyles. Depression is an appropriate emotion considering the misery that they are faced with in their lives.

For some medical practitioners in the treatment field to address this depression as a “mental illness or disease” and expect that prescribed medications will somehow fix the person so they can fix these situations in their life seems somewhat irrational if you think about it. It is a fact that these prescribed medications will mask the depression temporarily, but so will their drug of choice. Neither one helps the person restore their physical health or helps them develop the life skills to repair these real life problems, which is the only real cure for this affliction.

This article was written by Gary W, Smith, C.C.D.C., Executive Director of the Narconon Arrowhead Drug Rehabilitation and Education Center located in Canadian, Oklahoma.

      The first challenge for any addict wishing to kick his addiction is overcoming the mental and physical cravings for drugs or alcohol. Cravings are strong, uncontrollable urges to use drugs or alcohol that drive the addict to once again use addictive substances.
To get an idea of what drug cravings are like, think of a time when you went for a long time without eating a meal and you were really hungry. Hunger is a mental and physical sensation that is triggered when the body needs food for nutrients and energy.growling stomach and shakiness due to not having eaten will become so great, making the person so uncomfortable, that they will drop whatever it is they are doing and arrange to get food and eat it. As soon as the food is consumed, the hunger pangs stop and the person feels good about satisfying their hunger.withdrawal symptoms and cravings are caused by poor nutrition and the vitamin depletion that follows substance abuse. When a body lacks certain nutrients, it cannot make some substances it needs for health and energy, causing a person to feel tired and moody. Depletion of certain vitamins and minerals can also cause shakiness and pain.type of drugs were taken. Drug tests detect the presence of any drugs or their metabolites.Drug metabolites are like fingerprints of the drug that was taken. Cocaine produces a cocaine metabolite, opiates produce an opiate metabolite, alcohol produces an alcohol metabolite and so on.drugs and alcohol are metabolized, or broken down, in the liver but all tissues in the body will break down drugs or other foreign substances for elimination. Drugs and metabolites leave the body through urine, feces and sweat but they are not fully eliminated. Since drugs dissolve better in oil than water, they have a natural affinity for fats. Therefore any drug residues or metabolites that are not eliminated have a natural attraction to fat cells and so tend to be stored in one’s fat.L. Ron Hubbard made the revolutionary discovery that drug metabolites and other toxins that were stored in the fat cells had the continuing effect of locking addicts in their addictions, and that eliminating these stored deposits was a key to full recovery. He went on to develop a method of extracting those deposits, resulting in improved mental and physical health. This discovery was a critical step forward in the effort to resolve drug cravings.addictive drugs, they will accumulate a series of memories that contain the pain and discomfort associated with drug withdrawal.

The craving for food, driven at a physical level, stimulates memories of eating food, which is followed by a strong desire or compulsion to consume food. Usually when a person is very hungry, they will think about their favorite foods; if they get hungry enough, they can sometimes even smell and taste certain foods.

If a person goes long enough without food, compelling thoughts of eating plus a

A drug craving is similar, but the desire to use drugs is much stronger and more intense. An addict who is craving drugs will feel like life itself is dependent on getting and taking their preferred drug. They will do and say almost anything to get the drug to handle their intense craving. Once they satisfy the craving, they feel relief until the drug wears off and the craving returns.

Some

Withdrawal symptoms and cravings may also result from the toxins (substances the body sees as poisons) that accumulate after repeated drug use. These toxins stress many of the body’s systems, resulting in fatigue, aches, pains and unclear thinking. The addicted person has learned to medicate their mental or physical problems with drugs; they will continue to use drugs as a solution whenever they feel poorly. Therefore attempting to handle addiction with more drugs only makes the problem worse.

Today it is fairly common for many companies and federal agencies to drug test their employees. Through a common urinalysis test, it can be determined if the employee has taken any one of several drugs. This test of a person’s urine not only detects if they have taken drugs, it also detects what

Metabolites are the products left behind in the body when it has broken down a substance so it can be eliminated.

Most

As an example, the active chemical in marijuana, THC, is so fat-soluble that, when consumed, most of it rapidly leaves the bloodstream and lodges in the fatty tissues of the body. From there, it slowly moves back into the bloodstream over a period of weeks or even longer.

Only recently have scientists discovered that fat is actually a vital organ that produces hormones that affect our moods, energy levels and immunity. Chronic use of drugs or alcohol has been shown to disrupt this function. This disruption is one of the factors that cause cravings, as the body attempts to correct the disturbance by craving what it lacks or a similar substance, such as the drugs that originally caused the disruption.

In the late 1970s, American author and humanitarian

Each time a person consumes drugs or alcohol, they retain a complete recorded memory of that life experience. Whether they were happy or sad or had a good time or a bad time, all emotions, feelings and sensations that were present at the time the drug or alcohol was consumed are filed away in the person’s memory. Even if the person blacks out, the experience is still recorded in the mind.

In the case of those addicted to opiates, alcohol, tranquilizers or any other

The body will metabolize (change energy sources into energy) and burn fat cells any time a person undergoes a situation in life that causes their heart rate to speed up. Stress can do this, as can strenuous exercise or intense emotion. Most of us experience these kinds of stressful situations on a fairly regular basis.
When an addict’s body metabolizes fat, if the fat cells contain metabolites from past alcohol and drug use, those metabolites will activate back into the person’s bloodstream as the fat cells burn.

Keep in mind that each type of drug produces its own metabolite. Therefore, if alcohol metabolites were stored in the fat, once those fat cells are metabolized, the body will be reminded of alcohol at a physical level. If the person has taken cocaine, then cocaine metabolites will be released into the bloodstream and remind the body of earlier cocaine use.

The effect of these metabolites being present in the bloodstream will trigger recorded memories of drug-related experiences and discomforts from the past. The person will remember feeling and thinking like they did in the past when they were under the influence of the drug or alcohol. Or they will remember experiencing the pain and discomfort that occurred when they were coming down from the drug. They are prone to use drugs or alcohol again at these times.

This article was written by Gary W, Smith, C.C.D.C., Executive Director of the Narconon Arrowhead Drug Rehabilitation and Education Center located in Canadian, Oklahoma.

 
Coming next: The Life Cycle and Mechanics of Addiction Part III: “Depression” The Second Barrier to Successful Recovery