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	<title>Drug Rehab Blog &#187; Drug Addiction Stories</title>
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		<title>Drug Education, the Best Lecture was April 1968</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2012 13:47:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Z Melnychuk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[William Benitez in 1968 was no longer in the penitentiary and no longer using heroin.  He had two years earlier started a movement in the world of drug rehabilitation.  He’d seen the worst of himself and experienced wasted years struggling for his next fix. He learned how to cut lose of addiction and how to make others able to do the same.  Well the years were not wasted really, because now he knew how to save others from the same fate.  And he knew how to communicate a message.]]></description>
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		<title>Thinking of Using Drugs for the First Time?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:27:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>K.M</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Drug Addiction Stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[addiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Battle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Control]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Treatment Facility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Use Drugs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Using Drugs for the First Time]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I am writing this to tell you that at the age 20 I started to use drugs and it has been a 10 year battle for me. I am now in a treatment facility that is helping me work through my addiction.  If I could do it all over again I would have never started [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons Learned From Having a Loved One with a Neverending Meth Addiction</title>
		<link>http://narconon.ca/blog/drug-addiction-stories/lessons-learned-loved-neverending-meth-addiction.html</link>
		<comments>http://narconon.ca/blog/drug-addiction-stories/lessons-learned-loved-neverending-meth-addiction.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 16:42:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Nephew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Drug Addiction Stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[addiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Craves]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crystal Methamphetamine]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I'm a 25-year-old economics major from Toronto currently working for a shoe manufacturer. To this day I've never consumed a hardcore narcotic, and it's because there was enough proof in my childhood that told me it's best to avoid them.]]></description>
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		<title>The Recovery Story of A Meth Addict</title>
		<link>http://narconon.ca/blog/drug-addiction-stories/recovery-story-meth-addict.html</link>
		<comments>http://narconon.ca/blog/drug-addiction-stories/recovery-story-meth-addict.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 May 2011 14:13:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane Waterberry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Drug Addiction Stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[crystal meth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[detox]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drug rehab]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[meth addict]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Bryan was a meth addict, at the end of his rope. Considering topping himself – six months clean of crystal meth &#8211; and now he was using again. Back at bottom rung of a ladder he&#8217;d tried so hard to climb. Bitter in his disappointment, enraged with a world that had failed to help him [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Respect and Cherish it</title>
		<link>http://narconon.ca/blog/drug-addiction-stories/respect-cherish-2.html</link>
		<comments>http://narconon.ca/blog/drug-addiction-stories/respect-cherish-2.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2011 14:54:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>S. M.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Drug Addiction Stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Drugs at work]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[privileges]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was at work I did a good job.  I worked hard and helped to make the business grow. As I got more comfortable in my job I started to abuse the fact that my family owned the business. I showed up late for work consistently. I would take money from the business. I would also take product out of the store for my own consumption. I also used drugs while at work.]]></description>
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		<title>To all fifteen-year-old teenagers</title>
		<link>http://narconon.ca/blog/drug-addiction-stories/fifteenyearold-teenagers.html</link>
		<comments>http://narconon.ca/blog/drug-addiction-stories/fifteenyearold-teenagers.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2011 16:58:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>W Swann</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Drug Addiction Stories]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Never touched drugs for a number of years. Good job, nice house, life was good. I have had many accomplishments in my life; including winning a couple of provincial titles in varies competitions.

Now I sit here from a drug rehabilitation center writing you a short letter. Now at the age of 53.]]></description>
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		<title>Drive Carefully</title>
		<link>http://narconon.ca/blog/drug-addiction-stories/drive-carefully.html</link>
		<comments>http://narconon.ca/blog/drug-addiction-stories/drive-carefully.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2011 18:55:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Drug Addiction Stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[asleep behind the wheel]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before I came to rehabilitation I was working as a Equipment Operator in Alberta. My drug use has cost me many jobs in one way or another, Either I was high at work or I never got any sleep and did something to cost me my job]]></description>
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		<title>I beg others not to make the same wrong choice</title>
		<link>http://narconon.ca/blog/drug-addiction-stories/beg-wrong-choice.html</link>
		<comments>http://narconon.ca/blog/drug-addiction-stories/beg-wrong-choice.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2011 18:07:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Drug Addiction Stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[crack addict]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Wrong Choice]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have looked back since I have been here and tried to figure out how I became a drug addict. I had everything I wanted growing up, a loving well-off family and the opportunity to do whatever it was I wanted to do. Eight years later I was a crack addict with no job and no home. ]]></description>
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		<title>The Addiction that Stole Christmas &#8211; A Not So Uncommon Story</title>
		<link>http://narconon.ca/blog/drug-addiction-stories/addiction-stole-christmas-uncommon-story.html</link>
		<comments>http://narconon.ca/blog/drug-addiction-stories/addiction-stole-christmas-uncommon-story.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Dec 2010 01:38:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Vero</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Drug Addiction Stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[addicts]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Drug addiction and alcohol addiction ruin the holidays for everyone involved. Sure, we got great gifts, but the tension was so thick you could cut it with a knife. All afternoon and evening we would hear the little barbs coming from my Mother and Father. Even at my Grandmother’s house, but they curtailed it somewhat there. Alcohol addiction is the reason my sisters and I never wanted to spend Christmas night at home. We would take our favorite toy to Grandmother’s house and ask to stay there.]]></description>
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		<title>Families of Crack Addicts</title>
		<link>http://narconon.ca/blog/drug-addiction-stories/families-crack-addicts.html</link>
		<comments>http://narconon.ca/blog/drug-addiction-stories/families-crack-addicts.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 20:17:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JF</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Drug Addiction Stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[crack addict]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[crack addiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Get help for crack addicts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[While the crack addict goes through their own hell in their struggle with addiction, the families are also affected. Many families are torn apart by the effects of crack addiction. The pain and agony caused by an addiction is...]]></description>
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