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This article warrants comment.  Narconon drug treatment center worked with an individual who had been traumatized by 911.  He was working down the street from the disaster, smelled the fire, heard the screams and saw the frightened people running down the street.  After 911 he couldn’t get away from the memories, not even in sleep.

He went from a casual user to a devout heroin addict in a short amount of time and created new life problems that took him away from 911 for a while. 

He didn’t want to return to sobriety because he knew 911 was waiting there for him.  However, interestingly enough, once he got clean, he realized that the addiction was worse than the 911 memories.  In time, he did come to face 911 and realized that he was lucky to be alive, given the proximity to 911 and his heroin addiction.

It might be interesting to learn of others who perhaps chose full fledge addiction as a way to escape trauma.

People subjected to the trauma of a terrorist attack are likely to drink, smoke or take illicit drugs in the aftermath, though perhaps not in the large numbers observers might expect, a study finds.

For example, research shows that roughly 7 percent of people exposed to terrorist attacks reported an increase in alcohol consumption, Science Daily reported May 13.

Researchers at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health reviewed previously published studies conducted after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the Oklahoma City Bombings (1995), and the Intifada uprisings in Israel and Palestine (though most of the data was based on the 9-11 attacks). Lead author Charles DiMaggio and colleagues looked for changes in addictive behavior and found that 7.3 percent of respondents reported more or problematic alcohol consumption.

Though the researchers cautioned that their findings are fraught with variability, DiMaggio said, "These kinds of numbers indicate the potentially pervasive behavioral health effects of man-made disasters like terrorism. We hope our results can help direct interventions following terrorist incidents."

The findings were published online April 9, 2009 in the journal Addiction.

http://www.jointogether.org/news/research/summaries/2009/alcohol-and-other-drug-use.html

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