A Father’s Struggle with Son’s Addiction
Father’s Day is happy once again for the family of a Narconon Arrowhead drug rehabilitation program graduate.
(PRWEB) June 18, 2005 -- Residing in the northern suburbs of Atlanta in the
‘90s, when the economy was booming and jobs and new homes abound, life seemed to
be going well for Jeff Catton and his family after migrating from the northern
Midwest.
He and his wife Susan worked at a hard but rewarding
entrepreneurial career in the healthcare field. Their oldest son, Jason, was
proudly serving the country in the U.S. Marine Corps. Their youngest son, Luke,
was getting good grades and playing sports. At times, it seemed like they were
living the “American dream.”
Things started to change on New Year’s Eve
of 1994 when Jeff and Susan came home to find 16-year-old Luke and his friends
in a state of intoxication. Though this was the first time, it turned out to not
be the last.
Though his drinking was moderate through his sophomore and
junior years, he quit playing for the high school baseball and basketball teams.
Luke had enough good grades early on for him to graduate high school, but his
attendance and performance suffered greatly at the end. When he turned 18 all
hell broke loose, as he suddenly had no time schedule during the day, nowhere to
be early in the morning and a group of friends that encouraged him to party.
During the next three years Luke dropped out of two colleges, totaled
his car and changed jobs nearly a dozen times, not showing any responsibility or
stability due to his alcoholism. The behavior landed Luke in financial
difficulties and legal trouble, having been arrested twice for under-age alcohol
consumption.
“I just couldn’t understand why my son was destroying
himself and harming everyone around him,” recalls Jeff, who had tried on
numerous occasions to confront Luke on his drinking problems. “He became a
totally different person and didn’t seem to care anymore.”
Finally one
July evening in ’99 Jeff got a call from his son Luke, then living in Florida in
a state of complete hopelessness and despair from addiction to alcohol and
ecstasy, looking for help. “I could hear in his voice how desperate he was,”
said Jeff, “I told him to just come home.”
Two days later, that’s
exactly what happened and they found help. Jeff and Susan found a
non-traditional drug rehabilitation program in Oklahoma, called Narconon, that
utilizes the drug-free methodology of L. Ron Hubbard and has an extremely high
success rate. Luke was on a flight out there after the weekend, ready to start a
new life without drugs or alcohol.
Nearly six years later, life is better
than ever for Jeff and his family. His business is doing exceptionally well, his
youngest son is now happily married to his wife Erica and drug-free, and this
Father’s Day he is a grandfather again, as his oldest son Jason and his wife Amy
just had their second son.
According to Jeff, “I just hope that other
fathers in a similar situation to what I was in can know the happiness and
comfort that I now have, thanks to the wonderful people dedicated to saving
lives from the devastation of addiction.”
For more information about
overcoming addiction, contact Narconon Arrowhead today at 1-800-468-6933 or log
on to www.stopaddiction.com.
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Source : http://www.prweb.com/releases/2005/6/prweb252145.htm