They stressed that the use of medical drugs alone in treatment is not sufficient

4 recovering from addiction identify 3 conditions for quitting drugs

Recovered: The use of medical drugs in the treatment of addiction is a major cause of non-recovery.

Emirates today

Four young citizens, the eldest of whom is no more than 31 years old, decided to do their best to help addicts get rid of this deadly scourge, after they themselves crossed the bitter experience of addiction and recovered from it. , affiliated to the Community Development Authority, and embarked on their arduous journey to help addicts recover, rehabilitate the recovered to return to life, and live normally.

However, they assured, to "Emirates Today", that this did not come until after each of them paid a heavy price for his health, money, knowledge, work, and family and social life, over a period of years, as the shortest period of experience among their four experiences was not less than eight years.

They said that there are three conditions without which cessation of addiction cannot succeed, namely, first: the will based on full awareness of the health and social risks surrounding addiction.

Secondly, creating a positive environment that guarantees a way out of the harsh experience with the least possible losses.

And third: securing conditions that allow them to restore their positions in family and life, and to become productive persons.

And they added that they concluded, after a long suffering with the disease, that the use of medical drugs in the treatment of addiction is a major cause of non-recovery, but rather a reason for falling into a trap more and more, pointing out that the tools of confrontation and success in confronting it require culture, knowledge and knowledge of its details and secrets, stressing that addiction A “malignant disease.” The more you succumb to it, the more ferocious and deadly it becomes.

The young people, whom Emirates Today met, to listen to the details of their suffering and experience with the disease, warned that neglect, the absence of balanced control from the parents, and family dispersal create the ideal environment for the son to drift into the path of addiction, just as the parents' excessive interest and indulgence, or their cruelty and severity Blindness is no less dangerous than absence and neglect, as it leads many young people to the same fate.

Their stories are very similar, each of them lived many years of hopelessness, loss, and the dissolution of humanity from the soul and body. Suhail, for example, lived for years moving from one clinic to another, and from one hospital to another, but he only got huge amounts of medicine, until he became satisfied. He described sedatives and hypnotics as “legal drugs,” but he did not receive any curative help, according to his words.

Suhail's story with addiction began at an early stage, as he grew up in a family with a history of addiction, which doubled his suffering, as he was besieged for years by his addicted brothers and cousins, and when he decided to recover from his addiction, which caused him a stroke and paralysis that confined him to a wheelchair for six months, Not to mention his diabetes and liver disease, he and his wife left the family home, to get away from his surroundings, and he did not return to it until after his brothers were imprisoned because of addiction.

Suhail, who spent 17 years trying to recover, said that the use of medication as a means of treatment eliminated any hope he had of recovery, and turned him into a person completely deprived of his will, except for the will of deception and deception that he acquired in order to convince psychiatrists that he is sick and needs narcotics.

He added that his experience with doctors, and his use of tricks and lies with them, made him a well-versed advocate in legal arguments as well, to the extent that he convinced the judges themselves that he was sick and did not commit the crimes he was committing under the influence of drugs.

According to his account, he did not complete a full year out of prison for 17 years, as he was punished for various types of cases, including attempted murder, kidnapping and rape, and many other cases.

As for Jawad, he grew up alone, except for his grandmother, who took care of him and raised him, without realizing the magnitude of the calamity he fell into, and she thought that his addiction was just a mistake made by a teenager, and she did not know that it would take many years from his life.

Jawad was addicted, who lived his childhood and youth years without receiving any attention from his separated parents, for about 15 years, but - according to what he said - he did not know that he was sick until about seven months into the recovery journey, when he realized that he was sick, and that he had to Disease besieged and lead a normal life.

Jawad began his recovery in 2010, while he was in prison, when he joined the “Step by Step” program, and continued training and treatment programs after his release, until he became one of the most prominent volunteer activists in persuading addicts, inside and outside penal institutions, of the importance of joining addicts’ rehabilitation programs and helping them to recover. recovery.

Jawad confirms that he was in dire need of his father during the period in which he was washed away by drugs, and that he still needs him to this day, adding that those who took care of him beat him and punished him when they found out that he was addicted, but they did not ask him about the reason for his addiction, and they did not try to find out from him how. He was swept away by drugs, adding that if any of them had listened to his suffering, he would not have spent stages of his life - since he was fourteen - in prison, of which he spent seven consecutive years imprisoned in a case.

The young man miraculously escaped death, when he once tried to break up a fight between two wrestlers with white weapons, and it was only from them that they beat him, and he was unable to stop them, because he was under the influence of drugs.

As a result of his injury, he remained unable to move for seven months, in a very poor health condition, while doctors estimated that his survival rate did not exceed 2%.

Jawad did not know anything positive about himself, and he asserted that addiction builds within a person strange personalities, all of which are abnormal, and are not compatible with his humanity or with his true nature.

And he continued that when he recovered and decided to dedicate his efforts in training and rehabilitation programs for the recovered, he began to learn from the program supervisors the qualities and positives in his personality, such as commitment and mastery in carrying out the tasks entrusted to him, which include giving lectures and training hours.

As for Khaldoun and Faisal, they are both in their early twenties, and we have been addicted for more than eight years, but the neglect or negligence of the parents was not the reason for their addiction.

Khaldoun explains that everything in the circumstances of his life, including family bonding, excellent social relations, educational performance, and school success, everything was heralded that he would be an important and successful person in society, except that his excessive confidence in himself and his love for experience - whatever the cost - pulled him into the stream of drugs, which he thought was wrong. That its use will not go beyond the experience, until he began to postpone quitting it time after time, only to turn after a short time into an addiction.

Khaldun lived through years of misery, during which drugs showed their ugly faces to him, so Jawad and some friends set up a “positive trap,” as they called it, to catch Khaldun in the nets of recovery and restoring hope.

Jawad kept calling Khaldoun while he was in prison, to maintain a good relationship with him, and to tell him about successful treatment programs, but he was not convinced or wanted to recover.

As soon as Khaldoun was released from prison, Jawad convinced him to visit him at his work, which was, in fact, only a rehabilitation center.

Khaldoun agreed, who asked Jawad to teach him ways to show the examiners that he was healthy and not taking drugs, so that he would not be discovered when he took an anesthetic dose. Jawad agreed to his request, but he assured him that he should stop for a while, listen to some lectures, and join the programs. treatment until he understands more how to deal with the psychological examiners.

Thus, Khaldoun was attracted to the treatment programs and began to ask about numbers and statistics about the success stories of the recovered, until he gradually became involved in the treatment plan and began to recover.

As for Faisal, who is the youngest of them, he is still feeling the way to salvation, as he stopped using for several months, then he suffered a relapse that is considered normal in the stages of recovery, after which the addict returns stronger and more able to resist, because relapse (i.e. drug abuse again) does not make the addict feel pleasure. Rather, he was shackled by a heavy sense of guilt and oppression.

Faisal stressed that he is determined more than ever to recover, after realizing that addiction is a disease that results from delinquency in thinking, and that there is no way to confront it and get rid of it, except with reason, will, and the adoption of specialized behavioral, sports and psychological programmes.

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