Narconon Helps Girl Get Off of Heroin
This is the testimonial of a girl who went through the
Narconon Rehab Program. It is a multi-chaptered article. The first two chapters will be released this week, with a subsequent chapter released every week for the next few weeks.
No real names will be used in these articles to protect the privacy of those involved. We will call the girl in the story Tessa.
Early Childhood of a Drug Addict

Tessa was born into a one hundred percent Italian family in Arizona. Her family had originally come from New York, but her parents moved to Arizona in the late sixties. They had one boy and one girl. They were married for twenty-five years, and got divorced when Tessa was eleven months old.
Tessa’s father was a very intelligent tax and corporate lawyer. He was a self made man and had made a lot of money in his career. He was a very well known figure head in his line of work and has met every president that has been in office since he was twenty five.
Tessa’s father, although very intelligent, had a lot of psychological problems. He was on lithium for most of his adult life. The few times that he tried to come off of the drug, he went insane. He also had a drinking problem. Tessa said that he would drink every day after work. He would get very intoxicated every night and during the weekends as well. Tessa would be afraid to ride in the car with him sometimes because he would be so drunk.
Tessa’s mother was also very intelligent, although she was not emotionally volatile like her ex-husband. When Tessa was a young girl, her mother went to college. Her mother was majoring in special education for gifted children. Right around the time Tessa’s mother graduated from school, Regan became president. Regan cut all funding for the kinds of programs that Tessa’s mother had majored in, which left it very difficult for her to find employment.
When Tessa’s parent got a divorce, they went to court to decide custody of the two children in the family. It was a very long drawn out court battle that lasted until Tessa was eight years old. Tessa’s father made allegations that Tessa’s mom was abusing the children. These were not true, but Tessa and her older brother had to go to various doctors and counselors to prove this. Tessa believed that her dad did not really want custody of his kids, he just wanted to punish her mom. He made sure that Tessa’s mom spent all of her savings on lawyers before he said it was ok, the kids could live with her.