Brian, Recruiter
Atlanta
“To treat the addiction from the physical standpoint, not just a mental standpoint, and that all appealed to me. Being away from family and life for ten days rather than 30 days or six months was very appealing. But then as I researched just the science behind addiction – when you’re addicted to something, it physically changes and alters the neurotransmitters in your brain and the amino acids bathe those transmitters and helps restore them – that all made sense to me. It was appealing from those standpoints.
When I first started, I was a little nervous, I was excited; I had a lot of range of emotions. But then when I got in here, everybody was very comforting, very professional. When I started the treatment, I was a little skeptical of how it all was going to turn out: was I going to go through this after ten days and then the cravings would come back? That was a fear of mine. That never happened. The one thing that it has absolutely taken away, is any craving that I had to use an opiate.
Do research on the science behind this amino acid therapy. It makes complete sense. Traditional therapy traditionally doesn’t work. If you do the research and look for the information, you see that rarely does somebody go through traditional therapy and make it long term. Most don’t even make it short term; as soon as they get out of it, they’re back to using a drug. But look into the science behind amino acid therapy. Flat out: It works.
I went through the procedure – I’m sorry- the therapy for ten days and the first couple days were a little difficult but it got better and better and better. And when I got out of the treatment after ten days, I felt like a new person, I felt like I had a fighting chance to make the right decisions. Instead of driving into the doctor’s office and into the emergency clinic to get a pain killer, now I drive right past it and don’t even look back and that never happened before. I can tell you that in the past, because of my impaired physical state, I’d make the wrong decisions. I would have a bad day and I’d come and I’d say I’m ten minutes away from driving past the doctor’s office and picking up a pain killer and I can be numb for three days. Well, now, my brain kicks in and says that’s a wrong move and that’s a bad decision and it’s not hard for me to make that decision now, I just drive right past it.”
