In the last few years the amount of benzo abuse has skyrocketed. According the White House Office of Drug Policy, illegal use of prescription drugs is now second only to marijuana use. And many are asking, why such an increase? One of the reasons is that addicts now have the help of online pharmacies like Xanax or Klonipin making it clear that nowadays you can buy almost anything on the internet, even benzodiazepines.
A recent study performed by the Department of Health and Human Services States that there are almost 800,000 of these online pharmacies in operation making the purchase of illegal prescription drugs easily accessible to anyone that knows how to operate a computer.
“I used to pride myself on my ability to communicate with my children, and I always thought that I knew what they were doing.” says Sharon Lewis, a mother who recently found that her son was abusing Xanax he purchased off the internet. “When he finally broke down and told me about his addiction, I was devastated.” explains Sharon.
“I had millions of questions, one of them being, where did he get all these pills? When I found out that he was buying them over the internet I was furious. I felt like my home had been invaded by drug dealers,” she says. Determined to solve the problem, Sharon began researching different drug rehabilitation programs. “I knew that he could not beat this addiction on his own. I did not was to chance relapse.”
Eventually Sharon came across a drug and alcohol rehab called Narconon Louisiana. Narconon Louisiana is located just outside of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. In a business where the most popular saying is “addiction is a disease” Narconon Louisiana stands out with their belief that addition an be fully overcome with successful treatment. With a 76% success rate that far surpasses the industry norm for drug rehabalitation, Narconon Louisiana is proving everyday that people do not have to live with the burden of addiction forever.
Jeff Lukas, Executive Director of Narconon Louisiana, explains what makes the Narconon program successful. “We allow people to change. We believe that drugs were once a solution to a problem, and then the drugs became the problem.” Lukas has seen countless numbers of people come off benzos and successfully recover from their addiction through Narconon.
Xanax addiction, or any other benzo addiction, does not have to go unhandled, if you or anyone you know needs help please call Narconon Louisiana at 866-422-4650.