New drug treatment center opens in Provo

PROVO (Daily Herald) -- Chris started using drugs and alcohol as a freshman in high school in Tucson, Ariz.

His high school had a lot of heroin use among students, and Chris began using the drug as a junior. A broken arm and wrist got him a prescription for pain medications, and an addiction to the pain pills gave way to an addiction to cocaine, then heroin.

"Once I started doing heroin, it just never stopped," he said.

The first time Chris went to drug rehabilitation, he knew he had a problem. He begged his mother to help him, and he was sent to a 30-day program. The program did not help at all, he said, and he decided he no longer wanted help with his problem. However, his parents tricked him, he said, and managed to get him into an 11-month extended-stay program.

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