CLIENT TESTIMONY

George S.

“I WAS ABSOLUTELY PETRIFIED OF DETOXING”

I was scared to death about going through detox- Again.   I’ve been through that before, and the mere thought of the pain and agony of the withdrawal- and  going of it on for days and weeks and even months-  kept me using, even though I knew I needed to get sober.

Thank God for NTR™ and TRIAD Treatment Center!!!

I’ve been an addict all my life, or at least as long as I can remember. It didn’t stop me early on, as I was able to get an education, a great job, and a beautiful wife.   But when I drank, I was an animal. I became a totally different person- someone no one would like, including myself.  I had serious problems from drinking whenever I did get drunk. I was a binge drinker in my youth. I got sober from alcohol before I met my wife, thank God.  But once we were married, health issues for her started almost immediately, and ruined what I had hoped would be a fairy tail ending, and life happy everafter..  After a few years of trying to live life happy while being severely depressed by my situation,  prescription drugs crept into my life, and before I knew it, I was deeply hooked on Vicodin and Soma.  I’ve been in and out of recovery since then, but couldn’t seem to stay sober more than a few months at a time. And even when I’d been able to string a few months of sobriety together, it was pure “white knuckling”.   This was  in spite of having gone through regular drug treatment programs multiple times, attending 12-Step meetings regularly, having a sponsor,  trying to be active in my church, the whole nine yards.  Deep emotional issues and guilt relating to my marriage kept haunting me, and I sought solace in my pills and drugs.  I deluded myself thinking it was “OK”; at least I had control over my drinking.

About a year before I found TRIAD,  I realized that I MUST get clean andsober- or else.   But by this time I was taking not only Vicodin and Soma, but also amazingly huge amounts of Adderal, Ritalin,  and Xanax.  I’d stay awake all day and into the evening on Adderal and Ritalin, and then try to come down and sleep on literally handfuls of xanax and ativan.  It was crazy!!  And all the while my tolerance was building and I had to use larger and larger amounts of drugs, especially the benzos.  I could not function, and eventually I quit (lost!!) my job.

About a year before I came to TRIAD, I was intellectually prepared to enter detox-   yet again.  But when I then fearfully admitted myself to a regular medical detox ward, I became petrified when I thought about the impending withdrawal - and especially the benzodiazepines-  because I KNEW how horrible that can be- and is. And when the nurse who was admitting me to the detox had the bad sense to tell me, “Hey, buddy, you better be ready for this, because it’s going to last for days, and it is NOT going to be easy!!”, I split.  I signed myself out of that detox facility on the spot, and went back to using the same amounts of all the drugs, and even more.

Live predictably got worse. After several more horrible months, my wife gave me an ultimatum:  Get sober or else lose me, your kid, and your house. I’d already lost my job and was living off the remainder of my savings, which was soon to run out. My house would be foreclosed.   I had no choice but get sober- or die. 

I  had heard about TRIAD and NTR through a friend of mine.  It sounded too good to be true.  But after much thought and waffling, I decided to go ahead with it.   I finally entered  TRIAD this past July with great fear and trepidation, but I went ahead with it and finished the NTR treatment in 10 days.

I was AMAZED at how painless the withdrawal part was.  It was not painful at all, only slightly uncomfortable at times, and even then, mostly because of the minor side-effects and  difficulty sleeping early on.   Within just a couple days, I started to feel my brain awakening!!  It was amazing!! I felt this clarity of mind and thinking that I had not noticed for literally years. Even my wife asked me one day, “George, is this really YOU???  You are BACK!!”.  This alone told me that NTR™ worked.  And I’ve not had any cravings to use ever since early in the NTR™ treatment.   By the end of treatment, I felt a mental clarity I’ve not felt in years.  With that clarity came the realization that my deep “core issues” had been hidden away for years, and sequestered by the cloudy haze of drugs.  I now was able to for the first time address those issues head-on in counseling.  Today, my life is back on track once again.  I have no cravings to use whatsoever, I’m back to work, and my relationship with my wife and child is better than it had ever been before.

NTR delivers on its promise!   For me it truly was a “Jump Start Into Recovery”.  What a great way to begin the road to recovery!!   I now participate fully in my 12-step groups and have my depression under control, too. I have no desire nor obsession to use.  Life is great-  thanks to TRIAD and NTR™.