Khalfan Al Naqbi (Abu Dhabi)
It is said that if you waste your wealth, you will not lose anything, and if you waste your health, you will lose many things, but if you waste your decision and determination, you will lose everything. His will raises him to the top, and his personality keeps him from falling. Strength of character and will are the ingredients for success.
This is what applies to those young people who have returned to their senses after being swept away by the current of addiction and bad companions and plunged into a dark well, the darkness of which increases the more they persist in their desire, and they are cowardly to take the decision of salvation. Here we tell a realistic story of the experience of a young man who became addicted to drugs for several reasons, during which he was alienated by everyone, even the closest relatives, and even attacked the dearest people to him “his father” in moments when his mind was absent and paralyzed from thinking due to drug abuse, but with determination, will and determination came the decisive decision to treat , after he narrowed his ways and found himself abhorred and rejected by everyone, to wake up to himself at the appropriate moments.
In the prime of youth
“Ali” started taking when he was 17 years old, and he stayed at the bottom of addiction for 7 years, and about the beginning of his entry into the world of addiction, he said: I was taking tramadol pills, and in a very short period, about a month, until I reached the stage of addiction, as you know that Adolescence has many intellectual and physical changes in the young man, and what prompted me in the first place is curiosity and love of experience, in addition to the fact that bad companions have played a big role in convincing me of the experience, and absolutely frankly, he hesitates and remains silent and then continues: The biggest reason is that I was fleeing from a situation that afflicted me Because of an unfinished love story, where everyone stood in my face without continuing this love, which made me in a bad psychological state, as I was not receiving attention from my family, so I resorted to addiction.
I used to convince myself that no one would know that I was doing this work, although I had heard about the tragic endings that afflict the addict, but my imagination pictured the ease of returning from this path at any time I wanted, and I was delusional, not deterred and exhorted from the experience of my uncle who He died of an overdose of drugs, and he was silent for a while and said: I was very afraid of the police, and of my family knowing about me, but the bad friends were encouraging me and working hard to convince me that the drugs would make me forget the family problems I was facing at home, so I said to myself I will just try now, I will leave later. Ali said: If there is a lack of family cohesion and a broken family, and you feel that no one cares about you and asks about you and gives you tenderness and moral support, then this will be a reason for you to turn to friends outside the house and to be drawn into bad companions and listen to them. I often felt guilty, and always thought to quit, but I couldn’t, I thought that no one would feel that I was using, and I kept seeing and meeting my friends, but after a short while they started to move away from me because they heard I was using.
treatment journey
Ali noted: At first, I did not think about stopping, but after entering into several cases, I resorted to the 12-step program to treat addiction, and it continued for a short period and did not complete, because I felt myself weak and would not benefit, but after the last case I went through, I felt great humiliation, tired and destroyed I also lost a lot, I lost my job, myself and my health, in the meantime I thought about myself before I thought of anyone else, and how to save myself and try to get out of this abyss that I fell into, and I was suffering for periods of pain and aches due to the withdrawal of the drug from my body, but after a while These symptoms gradually eased.
When Ali had the will and courage to confront his problem with addiction to solve his crises, the first thing he thought about was resorting to the National Rehabilitation Center in Abu Dhabi: One day, a person came to me and asked to buy narcotic pills from me. So, the anti-drug police arrested him and he told them about me. This was the last case before the treatment, and I was on my way to prison. The idea of treatment came to me. Where should I go?), He said to me: There is the National Rehabilitation Center in Abu Dhabi. Contact them, and you will find your goal with them, God willing. He praised me a lot for the center and for its confidentiality and privacy, and said that I will recover through them.. As soon as I got out of prison, I called my mother and told her that I decided Treatment and recovery, and I’m going to the National Rehabilitation Center.
Ali added: At first, I said to myself that the center will be the only savior for me until I get rid of all my problems, and that the center will provide me with medicines. But after entering the detoxification department, I was encouraged and said to myself, “My main goal will be treatment and getting rid of drugs.”
temporary happiness
About the feeling he had at the time of the use, Ali pointed out, at first I was feeling happy and happy, and after a very short period of time the negative, psychological and physical symptoms began to appear, and thus affect my performance, my personality, myself and my behavior, and I got angry when anyone spoke to me and started screaming And I had several bad situations, but the situation that affected me the most, and all I remember is that one day I was returning from a drug session and there was a quarrel between me and my family and I lost control of myself, because I was under the influence of the drug, and I hit my father, then I went to the top of the house and tied my neck. With an “electricity wire”, I wanted to commit suicide and threw myself, but I was not hurt, as I forgot to tie the wire from behind because I was under the influence of drugs, I was insane.