You Cannot Become Addicted To A Drug Which You Never Use

BECAUSE IT IS THE

USE

OF DRUGS

WHICH ALONE CREATES

 ADDICTION.

Not misuse, abuse or a psychiatrically invented so-called

“addictive personality”.    Just straightforward USE !

The Home Office is likely the busiest, hard-working and most wide ranging U.K. government Department, covering, as it does, a majority of our home affairs and the protection of all our citizens against a variety of every day threats.

(Which incidentally is why many observers consider that the Home Office experienced Theresa May may well emerge as one of the best Prime Ministers we have ever had).

As a consequence, in order to cover policing, fire prevention, probation, prisons, addictive drug distribution and usage, border control, immigration, terrorism, alcohol strategy, crime reduction and prevention, etc., Home Office staff work with 28 different agencies and public bodies which are expected to be independent, expert, sometimes executive and occasionally advisory.

Into the latter category falls the ACMD (Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs), which carefully and cleverly fails to address more than one-third of the country's addiction issues, and thus avoids blaming Council members or their industry colleagues for their part in the acceleration and growth of addiction in this country.

Unfortunately, whilst it is clearly great on “advice”, the ACMD is neither independent nor expert, and in its published “Work Programme”, basically misses the point in respect of WHAT THE COUNTRY REALLY NEEDS. Which is:

1) to actually REDUCE and AVOID the increasing devastating scourge of addictive drug usage of every sort, and consequent debilitating addiction, which attacks the economy, the life of the community and that of the individual and his or her family, and,

2) to RECOVER victims of substance addiction to the natural state of relaxed abstinence into which 99% of them were born, thus also salvaging the economy.

Even the very title: “Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs” tells us that the Council is not expected to actually achieve very much, and is not truly independent.

This is because psychiatric & pharmacological professionals, in order to avoid any blaming of the psycho-pharmaceutical fraternity's practices & products, have for decades been successfully accusing drug USERS (rather than the drugs) for causing their own addiction by so-called “misuse” and “abuse”. So the ACMD membership is in no way independent of their employers.

Significantly, over half the membership of the ACMD is comprised of pharmacologists and psychiatrists, the very professionals responsible for researching, inventing and MANUFACTURING ADDICTIVE DRUGS AND PRESCRIBING THEM.

SO LET US BE VERY CLEAR – BY DIFFERENTIATING PROPERLY.

The ACMD carefully advises ONLY on illicit drugs, because it is their professions which are responsible for the 2.4 MILLION involuntary LEGAL drug addicts they have already created in the U.K., and which they have no wish to cure (or even advise on or discuss) because it is those sales – via the N.H.S. and paid for by the U.K. taxpayer – which are their profitable addiction produced daily bread and butter.

And those 2.4 Million addicted patients are in addition to the millions of other N.H.S. patients who also gratefully receive doses of useful and non-addictive pharmaceutically produced and G.P. prescribed medicines, which are daily and helpfully dispensed to U.K. patients.

In other words, EVERY DAY, an additional SEVEN MILLION OR MORE PER DAY of ADDICTIVE pharmaceutically produced drug doses also go down the throats of N.H.S. psychiatrically labelled and prescribed “mental health” patients living at home or in care.

But if the involuntarily addicted are “patients”, for what condition are they being treated?  And the only honest answer is: “They are having their involuntary addiction “managed”  (i.e. the addiction which mis-prescribing inflicted upon them in the first place).”

And here we have the real MISUSE of drugs, because addictive drugs were never intended to be used as a means of ensuring basically automatic daily sales of well over seven million profitable doses each and every day for the rest of those patients lives – just to ensure a continuing market for profitable psychiatrically prescribed pharmaceutical products – usefully (from the suppliers' viewpoint) paid for in bulk by U.K. taxpayers, not by the individual patients.

Neither the Department of Health nor the N.H.S. are capable of curing drug addiction, a fact which is proven by their dedication to the commissioning of “providers” to “rehabilitate” (not cure) addicts, or just to “manage” their addiction.

Which activities seldom result in the production of lasting relaxed abstinence.

Yet the ACMD continues to lure the Home Office into the false belief that illicit drug usage is the WHOLE addiction problem, and that LEGAL MEDICAL drug usage should be ignored, because "that" is Department of Health business !

As a result we have a massive hole in our addiction policy.  Note that.  In our ADDICTION policy – not DRUG policy.  Because it is not medication which is the problem.  It is ADDICTIVE AND HYPNOTIC DRUG PRODUCING AND PRESCRIBING which is the problem, and whilst the producers know a lot about making drugs, they know absolutely nothing about addiction and how to cure it.

Expecting the manufacturers of drugs to know how to cure addiction, is like expecting the manufacturers of razor-sharp scalpels to be the best surgeons, or the manufacturers of bullets to be the best marksmen !

Drug addiction, and the damaging conditions it inflicts on the society, the economy and on individuals is a bigger problem than terrorism, because terrorism actually depends on addictive drug usage for much of the development and control of its “warriors”.

Committing a hapless individual to a life of addiction is a vile crime, when the pusher is a criminal looking for a quick buck.

But, persuading an individual that he can “solve his problem” with an addictive drug is the same crime, even when the pusher is a professional adviser, and especially when that psychiatrist or other physician knows full well that it is the usage of that drug over only a very short period which is, in the vast majority of cases, going to make that patient into a drug dependent addict for life.

The pharmaceutical producers know this, and ENOUGH OF THEM USE THIS FACT TO MAXIMISE THEIR SALES AND PROFITS, AND SO ARE JUST AS MUCH CRIMINALS AS THE ILLICIT GROWERS AND SMUGGLERS.

However, they are not regarded as part of the massive addiction problem on which the Home Office SHOULD be taking genuinely independent advice in an effort to reduce the threat to the U.K's population posed by addictive behaviour.

Far too many politicians and civil servants, and especially the Home Office, still seem to be blind-folded and ear-plugged on this subject, so that more and more policy-makers need to recognise the direction in which addiction is inevitably taking our families and communities, and become aware that:

* Addicts cause the most accidents at work.

* Addicts mug and rob old people.

* Addicts and drunks cause most road accidents.

* Addicts sell drugs to children (and others).

* Addicts increase the numbers of prostitutes and

‘toy-boys’ in our towns,

* Addicts disrupt our schools, the education of our

children and the life of our communities,

* Addicts bankrupt businesses and destroy jobs.

* Addicts break into and burgle peoples' homes.

* Addicts spread HIV, AIDS and hepatitis.

* Addicts waste our tax money and other resources.

* Addicts and drunks commit the most crimes,

* Addicts (even if involuntarily addicted) cause a bigger
                                  drain on the N.H.S, than any other set of patients,

And addicts are undoubtedly the real current threat to our lives and to everybody’s future. (And that includes addicts on illicit, legal, licensed and prescribed drugs.)

This is because their addiction controls them, and THIS AFFECTS EVERYBODY,

EVERYONE’S FAMILY, EVERYONE’S INCOME, EVERY JOB, EVERYONE’S HEALTH AND EVERYBODY’S HOME !

It therefore follows that in a country like the U.K., its Home Office, which claims responsibility for protection of the population and its future wellbeing, should be the Department which enforces on all other Departments those policies that:

1) reduce the number of individuals starting on drug usage, by providing effective addiction prevention and usage avoidance training, and,

2) those policies which provide effective cures for existing drug addicts, including recovery to the natural state of relaxed abstinence into which 99% of the population is born.

Without these policies being widely and effectively implemented the Government will inevitably continue to create a nation where the majority of its citizens will eventually become addicts, and thus all eventually be bio-chemically controlled zombies.

Even if there were no existing cure for drug addiction, the above indicated current government attitude towards addictive drug production and prescribing would NOT be of any use to a society which needs and wants to be addiction free - unless factions within our Government covertly seeks population control by drugging ??

But there has been a sure cure for drug addiction for over 50 years which, via black propaganda, covert attacks, criticism and ridicule, etc., international psychiatry and pharmaceutical interests have been determinedly trying to have shut-down and made unbelievable and unapproachable for 66 years.

Nevertheless one residential self-help addiction recovery TRAINING programme has been expanding across the world since 1966, and today has nearly a hundred centres (including prison units) in 49 countries.  But the ACMD doesn't want representatives of that programme advising the Home Office, because the harsh light of truth they would shine on the U.K. addiction problem, “would not be good for the business of psycho-pharm interests.”

Unsurprisingly, one professional acquaintance, whose application to join the ACMD was refused, said that, in his experience and opinion, the initials more accurately stood for All Completely Misleading Delegates !

S.A.F.E. Is A Not-For-Profit Community Support Group Formed in 1975.

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Why Write The Truth About Addiction ?

BECAUSE WHAT CURRENTLY

CIRCULATES AS “INFORMATION”

IS DELIBERATELY MISLEADING.

Apart from “health”, “recreation”, “curiosity”, “nature”, “history” & “adventure” there are very few non-fiction subjects of more interest and vital importance than “drugs & addiction” to the average family and to the society as a whole.

With one in nine U.K. families likely to be housing an illicit or prescription drug addict, and an additional one in nine homes providing living quarters for an individual with a “drinks problem”, making known the true causes of substance addiction and how it may be quickly, easily and effectively cured for up to 75% of addicts is essential to the happiness and health of every family, as well as vital to the economy and to the worldwide reputation of our country.

Furthermore, a solution to addiction is desperately and daily sought after by 70 to 75% of all addicts, as well as by every other member of each of their families.

In addition to knowing HOW addiction may be cured - for prevention and avoidance purposes the real reason HOW and WHY individuals become addicted also needs to be known – as follows:

1) An individual has a personal situation of one kind or another, which they increasingly consider to be a problem and for which they are seeking a solution - with increasing lack of success and despair,

2) The information they have on drugs, alcohol and addiction (from family, friends, colleagues, acquaintances, medical, psychiatric, other professionals and pushers) is so full of misinformation, sales talk, “funny stories”, misunderstandings, jokes, political propaganda, advertising slogans and misleading so-called “harm reduction advice”, and, is thus so replete with lies that a falsely based ineffective decision is nearly unavoidable for many, and,

3) If and when they are persuaded, convinced or decide to use a drug as a solution to their problem – they have taken the final step which actually leads to THE CREATION of addiction.

Why? BECAUSE IT IS TOTALLY AND UTTERLY IMPOSSIBLE TO BECOME ADDICTED TO A DRUG WHICH YOU NEVER TAKE.  The reason being that it is not MIS-use or AB-use of a substance which causes addiction. It is just plain straightforward USAGE of the drug itself which creates addiction – NOTHING ELSE !

Many medical / illicit drug substances can be addictive and / or hypnotic, but if you say “NO” to them, they can never ever addict you.

These last five paragraphs put the reason and cause of all substance addictions into a nutshell, and, because 70 to 75% of all addicts desperately want to quit, have tried daily to do so, and yet, having failed, still want to quit – it is clear that there is no absence of willingness – just LACK OF KNOWLEDGE OF “HOW TO QUIT”.

Which leads us to self-help addiction recovery training – since 1966 by far the most effective addiction cure programme in the world – with 98 charitably based training centres (including prison units) in 49 countries.

But to rise above the noise and distraction of both the innocent and the deliberate lies told about addiction, and to successfully reach those numerous desperate family members needing and demanding the truth and an effective means of escape – it is vital that THE TRUTH ABOUT ADDICTION and HOW IT CAN BE CURED be written, published and sold as often as possible and in as many factual ways as possible to satisfy that demand.

S.A.F.E. – the Society for an Addiction Free Europe – therefore seeks a literary agent and publisher(s) who recognise the increasing danger of the addiction problem and accompanying huge demand for a solution from millions of families both in the U.K. and throughout the rest of the world.

The founder and C.E.O. of “SAFE”, of “ARTS” and of “AWASH” has self-published over two dozen books (and hundreds of papers) on the true cause and cure of substance addiction – none of which have ever been professionally marketed – although eagerly devoured by family, friends, aquaintances, colleagues and others.

It is therefore hoped that some interested agent will agree that all that is now needed to revolutionise the addiction field - is the expertise and ability of the literary and publishing world to take advantage of the demand already out there.

E. Kenneth Eckersley, Investigative Journalist, Researcher, Author, Trainer
                                                and Conference Speaker,

Office phone: 01342 810151, Home phone: 01342 811099,

E-mail: keneck@btinternet.com

A.R.T.S. House, Plawhatch Lane,

Sharpthorne, EAST GRINSTEAD,

West Sussex, RH19 4JL, England.

(P.S.  I find that, likely out of fear and curiosity, two other non-fiction subjects on which I write are also commanding broader public attention:

         1) increasing Dementia, and,

         2) the increasingly widespread belief in Eternal Life and Re-Incarnation.)

S.A.F.E Is A Not-For-Profit Community Support Group Formed In 1975.

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Personally, I Don't Necessarily Agree, But . . . .

ONE OF MY FRIENDS BELIEVES

THAT THE FACT THAT “SOUTHERN

RAIL” IS MAINLY OWNED BY A

FRENCH COMPANY - IS PART OF THE

REASON FOR THE PRESENT STRIKES.

Whilst it is the rail unions who have called the on-going disastrous five day strike by Southern Rail employees, it is the staffing policies of the company's owners which have precipitated the strike call.

This is a massive French transport company based in Paris and partly owned by that government via the French national rail company who, my friend says, couldn't care less about British commuting passengers' delays, discomforts and income loss, about a reduction in the number of tourists visiting London or about whether Brexit is a rocky ride – or even a complete disaster !

After all, he says, it is French politicians who suggested that Britain ought to be penalised for voting for Brexit, and they have been further pixxed-off by Theresa May's eminently sensible and obviously correct and courageous decision to take a closer look before finally committing to the resolution taken 20 years ago to build a nuclear power station - when electricity production projects by other means have changed so drastically in the last two decades.

Stopping London based commuters from producing, whilst also reducing our tourist income, are both factors which will make leaving the E.U. look like a bad idea, and thus weaken support for French E.U. “independence” parties.

Unfortunately, those British trade unionists which wanted to REMAIN in the E.U. are also inclined towards trying to show that Brexit was wrong.

So whilst they claim that they “always” have the best interests of “our members” at heart, we all know that they can be extremely political bodies which, like the large commercial interests they confront, are NOT elected by the British electorate, and so have an undeserved and un-democratic influence on our lives and on our Brexit, etc.

I just wish they would play their games on the Continent, instead of on “our” (what a totally inaccurate word) on “OUR” railways !

Once they've settled whether the Driver or the Guard closes the doors for the passengers, I suppose they will then want to argue about who opens and closes the door for the Guard and then who opens and closes it for the Driver.

After all, increasingly expensive business executives and powerful political leaders have to be seen to be doing something useful – don't they ?

BUT JOKING ASIDE.

Whether my friend is right or wrong, he is managing to draw attention to the idea that Brexit is just as likely to be covertly attacked as well as openly, and that we must therefore all look more than once at events which carry other headlines, but may well be “poor loser” attempts to spoil a successful and beneficial Brexit - or even be a vain attempt to reverse it.

S.A.F.E. Is A Not-For-Profit Community Support Group Formed in 1975.

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We are very busy at the moment . . . .

THE MOMENT WHICH LASTS

FOR EVER !

No, sorry to disappoint you. It's not your first kiss, the first night of your honeymoon or any of all the other wonderful moments in your life.

IT'S WHEN YOU CALL YOUR BANK, BUILDING SOCIETY, GAS OR ELECTRICITY SUPPLIER, PHONE COMPANY, OR OTHER MAJOR COMMERCIAL OR GOVERNMENT ORGANISATION, ETC., AND THEY ALL IMMEDIATELY RESPOND BY TELLING YOU A CAREFULLY AND DELIBERATELY PREPARED   PACK OF DOWNRIGHT LIES.

It doesn't matter at all at what part of the day you make your call – they are always – at that exact moment – VERY BUSY, and they will even patronisingly apologise for the delay and then assure you that:

“YOUR CALL WILL BE ANSWERED AS SOON AS POSSIBLE !”

Something which can often take up to six, ten or fifteen minutes of waiting in a queue or even never happen if the ringing tone you have been enjoying between repetitions of the same lies suddenly disappears and you have to start dialling all over again.

What they don't ever say is that: “Keeping our personnel wages bill down is far more important than giving a good, quick and honest service to our customers.”

BECAUSE THAT IS THE REAL TRUTH.

They don't want to take the slightest risk that one of their paid “representatives” or “operators” will actually be sitting WAITING for someone to call for more than a moment or two.

Oh No ! “That's a waste of our expensive staff time” says the boss, “It's much more profitable to waste our customers' time” – AND THEY DO. In great chunks!

Remember, if you are waiting ten minutes then there's somebody ahead of you who has been waiting a similar time, and someone ahead of them and ahead of them, and also somebody just after you, and then someone after them, so that between half a dozen waiting callers, they quickly waste a whole hour.

AND DON'T BELIEVE FOR ONE MOMENT THAT THIS IS ACCIDENTAL.

What they do in the name of “economy” is to carefully base their staffing levels on the quietest hour of their usual business day.

This means that in that hour every caller gets answered immediately AND in that hour every one of their staff is also fully occupied with none of them wasting company time waiting for a caller to call.

It also means that in every other hour in the business day, their staff are fully engaged, and they can leave a computer to say: “We are very busy at the moment”, and then keep you entertained and calmly wasting your time, whilst they cash in on you and your fellow callers' patience.

This is a gross deception, and has all sorts of side-effects.

The worst of these, from their point of view, is that they lose you as a customer. BUT, they rely on the fact that you might not have another alternative, OR, on the possibility that other alternatives also have the same lousy time-wasting customer service, which regrettably can often be true.

Occasionally, you are lucky to be ringing a company which does actually understand the words “Helpful Customer Service” as part of their overall image projection and promotion, and, if they cannot handle your call immediately, will have some system of calling you back, or of holding your place in their queue.

Still not perfect I know, but it is a way of saving thousands and thousands of hours of wasted customer waiting time across the nation, 24/7 and for 52 weeks of the year.

But the effective way to change the system, to start saving your time and thus actually improve your quality of life and the lives of other customers, is to get through to the bosses and register your protest.

When you do get through to a “representative”, and AFTER you have finished your business with that operator, ask to speak to his or her manager and then tell that manager you want to write a letter or e-mail to their Managing Director, Department Head or Chairman, and that you would like that person's name and contact details (e-mail address or postal address & postcode, etc.).

Then right a short message to that “boss”, saying what you want, but basically that you really don't like to have your time wasted and, that you don't appreciate his or her company pretending that the staff are “very busy”, when the obvious truth is that the organisation is deliberately under-staffed.

Get the idea.

If we don't all start taking action, the situation will never improve, but if even only a few disgusted callers get through to the bosses, we will soon start to see an improvement, not only in time saved, but in the honesty circulating in our society.

This is something for which we all need to take responsibility. So please make sure this call to arms IS ANSWERED AS SOON AS POSSIBLE !

Many thanks, because we are all really very busy at the moment.

S.A.F.E. Is A Not-For-Profit Community Support Group Formed In 1975.

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How To Rid Yourself Of Drug Addiction: Final Part:

THE TRAINING ROUTE

AND

THE WAY TO HAPPINESS.

Any addict who has just finished an assisted drug free withdrawal, as described in Part ONE of this post series, although no longer taking drugs or suffering from severe cold turkey effects, will normally feel a little shaken, and so may need to be stabilised in the “here and now” with a few locational training routines, something which takes a matter of hours rather than days.

Then the next two training steps are designed to ensure that his or her PREVIOUS DRUG USE HISTORY, in both body and mind terms, will no longer provide a basis for a return to drug usage.

Drug trips and cold turkey experiences both impinge on an addict's body and mind to a greater or lesser degree, and leave lasting problems which need handling.

Drug metabolites and toxic drug residues are stored or lodged in the fatty tissues of the body, and, under circumstances such as heavy physical work, intensive exercise, hot weather or other sweat generating activity (which can cause a breakdown of body fat) can be released back into the bloodstream and restimulate a demand for the drug, causing an unexpected and otherwise inexplicable 'trip' or 'high'.

To avoid this, it is therefore necessary to ensure that all these metabolites and toxic residues are discharged from the body under controlled sweating circumstances in a sauna, which action is supplemented by carefully measured vitamin and mineral dosages to combat any risk of that discharge creating circumstances where the body might again be prompted to alter its metabolism towards demand for more drugs.

After the addict has thus purged his or her body of all such metabolites and residues (quite incidentally including other stored poisons such as fertilisers, insecticides, hormones, weed-killers / herbicides and other agricultural, industrial and cleaning chemicals, etc.) a similar flushing out from the mind of irrational computations and weird decisions based on drug demands or drugged reactions is essential, to avoid such irrationalities influencing future decision making.

Like all recovery training, this step is done with another student “twin” or training partner both of which alternate as “Coach” and “Student”. i.e. the Coach learns what is required and then applies it with the Student who, when completed, then becomes the Coach, learns what is required and then helps his or her “twin” to also complete that step.

You will recognise that, at this point, the recovering addict (or Student) is not only comfortably no longer using any addictive substance, but that additionally he / she is now protected against a return to drug usage generated by both physical, mental and emotional demand factors which are part of his or her own personal addiction history.

The next steps therefore include learning to protect him or her self against FACTORS IN HIS OR HER PRESENT TIME & FUTURE ENVIRONMENT, especially including suppressive individuals in that environment, as well as lifestyle agreements he or she might earlier have made, and which they are now able to start recognising can contribute to a relapse into further drug usage - if they don't change those agreements.

Amongst other “return home” preparations covering lessons in communication and perception, morals, ethics, personal values and integrity, how to change conditions and other Graduation requirements, this includes training the Student to certainty on the sane and healthy living precepts contained in the famous booklet: “The Way To Happiness”, written by L. Ron Hubbard, and of which millions of copies have been distributed by government bodies and police forces around the world and in numerous languages.

Because Students are fully trained and have successfully, over a three month period, applied his or her training to themselves, as well as to their twins, their level of conviction and certainty is high enough to render them increasingly “self-determined” in their attitude to drugs, addiction and life in general,

In fact, 50 years of practice show that a Student who abstains for 12 months is extremely unlikely to use drugs ever again.  (Even an addict who has completed the first few of the above training steps can often thereafter comfortably abstain.)

Recovery is not about temporary “relief”.  It is about lasting relaxed abstinence.  It is not the “dry drunk” reformed alcoholic who continuously yearns for a drink, or the recently rehabilitated “one day at a time” ex-addict who has to continuously grit his teeth, bolster his resolve and walk on the other side of the road whenever he sees a former friend who is still using, or to avoid a pusher he once bought from.

No . . . . True recovery is about relaxed abstinence – the same condition as before the individual first used – and is defined by effective recovery training programmes as follows:

Any truly workable method of drug recovery training or rehabilitation must start with an UNAMBIGUOUS expression of an effective result, and successful rehabs hold that the only logical and compassionate goal for rehabilitation is ‘lifelong comfortable abstinence’, and practical experience has shown the best working definition to be:

A FULLY EMPLOYABLE FORMER ADDICT OR USER WHO:

i) since commencing a self-help ‘training for recovery’ programme has NOT used his or her original addictive substance(s) for a period provably of not less than six to twelve months, (depending on the drug(s) used and the period of usage),

ii) who remains fully convinced that (s)he will comfortably abstain for life,

iii) who has not replaced such earlier usage with another addictive substance, (e.g. methadone, alcohol or Subutex, etc.),

iv) who is now taking responsibility for his or her own life and family,

v) who no longer needs or wants further rehabilitative support, and,

vi) who is now also taking responsibility for, and is contributing to, his or her community.

It makes sense for any providers of self-help addiction recovery training and rehabilitation to have a goal for the programme they are offering.  If they don’t have a target to aim at, how can they ever know that they and their patient / client are winning and making progress.

Without a lasting abstinence goal, WHAT CAN POSSIBLY BE THE PURPOSE for spending time, money and effort on a rehab’s particular “treatment” or “counselling”?

SO, when seeking an effective recovery programme, it makes sense to always ask for and insist upon a clear expression – preferably in writing – of the intended purpose and goal of any particular programme.

Obviously, because cases differ, not every patient will attain that goal, but if the executives of a rehab organisation under consideration do not claim or cannot prove that at least half and up to three-quarters of their patients attain such an expressly stated valuable goal, is there any sense in signing a contract which offers results weighted in favour of failure rather than success?

In fact the acid test of any rehabilitation centre's ability to deliver lasting abstinence is to enquire if they are prepared to, AT LEAST IN PART, accept remuneration on a “Payment by Results” basis – medically tested against at least six months of relaxed abstinence from the date of commencement of their programme.

Around the world in 49 countries there are approaching one hundred residential self-help addiction recovery training centres (including prison units), and the number of such centres has increased practically every year since 1966.

If you live in the United Kingdom and would like to receive

a free copy of:

“The Way To Happiness” booklet, simply e-mail your name,

street address, town or city and Post Code to keneck@btinternet.com.

S.A.F.E. Is A Not-For-Profit Community Support Group Formed In 1975.

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How To Rid Yourself Of Drug Addiction: Part TWO:

NOT VIA  ANY FORM OF TREATMENT,

 BUT VIA THE TRAINING ROUTE.

To recover oneself to the lasting non-criminal natural state of relaxed abstinence into which 99% of addicts are born, there are three factors to be handled:

FIRST, one must gain full practical KNOWLEDGE of “how” to achieve abstinence.

SECOND, one must again take full RESPONSIBILITY for your body, your thinking, your life and the application of that knowledge, and,

THIRD, you will thus regain CONTROL of yourself, your body, your environment and the people in it.

But you may ask: why “training instead of “treatment”, and why must YOU be responsible rather than Dad, Mum, the doctor, a policeman or someone else ?

Well, this is because, whether we like it or not, life is unavoidably a do-it-for-yourself activity.  You can't live my life for me or anyone else, and neither I nor anybody else can live your life for you !  Please think about that for a moment.

As soon as you think in terms of “treatment”, you are usually thinking about someone else doing something FOR YOU or worse still TO YOU, and that means having a nursing, police or family adviser or “minder” for the rest of your life, which in fact is, in some ways, what got you into drug trouble in the first place.

As a result, the first bit of “knowledge” one needs is a clear understanding of how and why all addicts really do start to use drugs of one sort or another.

If you have a friend on drugs, and think back very carefully, you will recall that just prior to him (or her) starting, (s)he had a personal situation which (s)he was increasingly thinking was a problem for which a solution was needed, and when another friend, relative, colleague or professional suggested or advised that a certain substance would likely be the best thing to take to solve that problem, because drugs in the form of medicines have been agreed upon for generations as “problem solvers”, it was not hard for that problem beset friend to become convinced.

He / She thus became the victim, not only of the addiction creating nature of the drug, but also a victim of the sympathetic, misleading, sometimes well meant, erroneous beliefs of friends, or the bullshit sales talk of some professional adviser or pusher.

So there you are.  Isn't that great.  Addicts are off the hook.  They were a victim of false and misleading advice and of the addictive effects of the drug itself.

Absolutely true. BUT EQUALLY, when you look closer, it was the addict him or her self who made the decision, OR it was the addict themself who agreed to the doctor's advice.

HAD TO BE !

Because, whether we like it or not, we are all living our own lives. No one else is doing it, and no one else can.

Fortunately, this state of affairs gives us the clue to the quickest and most certain way out of addiction.   It tells us that, as we got ourselves into addiction, WE ARE THE ONES WHO CAN BEST GET OURSELVES OUT !

And when over the years you interview or help large numbers of addicts of all types, (as S.A.F.E. and our colleagues have) you find that 70 to 75% not only want to get off their addiction, but that they have been trying (sometimes daily) to quit from a time some three days, three weeks or three months after the date they started. More precisely, from the moment they fully realised and painfully understood just exactly what the drug was doing to them, and that they were trapped.

So we know, from 50 years of experience, that their problem is not willingness to quit – it is lack of knowledge as to HOW to quit.  Which of course is NOT a matter of “treatment” but a question of TRAINING.

SO EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO DO, YOU FIRST NEED TO LEARN, AND THEN YOU SIMPLY NEED TO APPLY IT TO YOURSELF.

This means starting by taking responsibility for the success of the drug-free withdrawal procedure which was described in our earlier post on: “How To Rid Yourself Of Addiction: Part ONE”.

Obviously I can't possibly give you the whole training course here on this blog.  But I can give you a general idea of the programme a recovering addict goes through in the 12 to 14 weeks at the residential addiction recovery training centre we work with in East Sussex.

But now we are getting into our next post, which is: “How To Rid Yourself Of Addiction: Part THREE”.

So, if you're still interested - see you there.

S.A.F.E. is a Not-For-Profit Community Support Group Formed in 1975.

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