I am a mother of five beautiful, intelligent and talented children. I gave up a lucrative and rewarding profession so that I could spend my life raising my children. I wanted to be a part of every moment of their lives. As every mother does, I made plans. Those plans were for my spouse, myself and of course my children. We want them to be healthy, educated and successful.

• Did you ever try to explain to your 67-year-old mother that her first granddaughter isn't going back to college because she needs to go to a drug rehabilitation center for her heroin addiction?

• Did you ever stay up all night and watch your daughter shake with tremors because of heroin withdraw? Did you ever spend the day in the emergency room checking your child into a medical detoxification unit?

• Did you ever spend the entire day on the telephone trying to find a rehab suitable for your child and one that hospitalization covers? Did you ever get into your car and drive seven hours straight without stopping to prevent your daughter from having another relapse?

If the answer is yes to any of the above questions you need to continue to read this.

My days, hours and weeks were consumed with finding a solution to my daughters drug addiction, which seemed an impossible task. My daughter has fought and lost against her addiction since she was 13 years old. It all began with harmless experimentation with marijuana and alcohol but she soon fell into a drug trap which left her battling an addiction to every drug available today. As her addiction grew worse and worse my husband and I feared the day when we would get a call that said she had landed in jail, or worse, she had died, thankfully that call never came.

In July of 2002 we gave her an ultimatum. We told her that she could either seek treatment or we could no longer have anything to do with her. For 2 months she was out there doing what ever she could to get high. I have never been that scared in my life. In August she finally agreed to get treatment.

Thanks to the Narconon Program my daughter has been clean for over 6 months. She is happy, functioning and for the first time in a long time, she is stable. I never want any parent to go through the nightmare I went through with my child, although there are so many of us going through this right now. I am writing this to let you know that there is hope. Today I can honestly say that I have my daughter back.

Thank you Narconon.

Mother of a Graduate of the Narconon Program