Part One

This is the story of a guy who got addicted to drugs and alcohol and how after he learned About Narconon and went through Narconon rehabilitation he was able to get his life back on track. He is now productive and successful and doing well.

D was born into a upper middle class family. His father was a very successful dentist and his mother worked for her husbands practice. His father was also a very serious alcoholic and his mother acted as an enabler. D was the second eldest son out of four boys.

D made average grades in school. He did not really like school all that much and his father put a lot of pressure on him to excel. D resented this and did not do his best as a way to rebel against his dad. D did not bring friends home to play because his parents would have loud terrible arguments, and he felt it would be too embarrassing.

These fights escalated to the point of being unbearable and after a while his parents got a divorce. After the divorce, D and his eldest brother went to live with their father and the two youngest children went to live with their mother. D was mostly watched by young nannies at this point. The nannies would usually be college students who lived around the area who were trying to support themselves through school. D said that the nannies were very nice to him and he liked them all very much.

After the divorce, D began to experiment with alcohol and marijuana at the age of twelve. By the time he was fourteen he was using alcohol and marijuana pretty heavily. When he was fifteen he started using LSD, along with ectasy and psycodelic mushrooms. When D was around sixteen or seventeen he started to do cocaine as well.

When D was seventeen he got introduced to the Grateful Dead and started going to a lot of their concerts. He was, at this point, using marijuana everyday and drinking alcohol heavily every weekend. That year he moved from his fathers home to his mother’s home in Connecticut. It was from this high school that he graduated. He started working as a bus boy in restaurant and this gave him more access to party lifestyle. He would hang around with the other employees when they would get off of work and everyone would drink and smoke pot. He would also use LSD about three to four times a month during this period. He also tried crack for the first time in his life with one of his friends older brothers.

After graduation D tried taking one or two classes at the community college, but quickly dropped out. After turning eighteen he moved out of his mother’s home and into an apartment with some of his buddies from the restaurant. It was essentially a complete part house. He kept drinking and smoking pot very often.

When he was nineteen, D got his first DUI. This did nothing to slow down his partying and he and his friends kept at it with what seemed like a renewed vigor. After a while people in the house began to come and go. One person would move out and another person would move in. The house was party central, with people coming and going through what seemed like a revolving door. Everyone was high and nobody was dependable.

D still continued to go to a lot Grateful Dead concerts and use mass amounts of pot, LSD, mushrooms, and ecstasy. This lifestyle continued on until D turned 24.

When D was twenty-four he met a really nice girl. She was smart and beautiful. He fell in love with her. He started to have a reason to get his life together. His girlfriend was going through college and he felt compelled to help her do this financially.

Narconon provides solutions to the problem of alcohol abuse.

He was making good money working as a foreman at construction at the time so he was able to provide her with a means to go to college. He started working at paying off the student loans she had already accrued and paid for her current tuition as well.

He began drinking less because he was happier. He had a great girl-friend that he was in love with and he was leading a productive life.

Unfortunately, he began to have problems with his sciatic nerve. The only way he knew of to kill the pain was to drink it away. His drinking began to steadily increase to the point where it again became unmanageable.

Shortly after his sciatic nerve began to give him problems, he went to a ten year high school class reunion. He got incredibly drunk and decided it was a good idea to drive himself home. Apparently the police officers who pulled him over did not agree and D was arrested for DUI. He called his girlfriend and she came to the jail and bailed him out.

A big argument started over D’s drinking and continued for another two weeks on and off. D’s girlfriend decided that she did not want to live with him any more and moved out. They continued dating, however and would do so for another two years. D’s girlfriend was not happy about his drinking, and let him know it. His mom was not happy about his drinking either and she also let him be aware of her feelings.

After a while the pressure to stop drinking got to be too much for D to deal with. He felt that he did not have enough to offer his girlfriend anymore and decided that she would be better off without him. He knew his mother also wanted him to stop drinking so he decided the best thing for him to do would be to move away from the people that loved him so they would not have to watch him drink anymore. He did not feel that he could or wanted to stop drinking at the time and he decided the best thing to do would be to force his family to just let it go. Continued in chapter two….