Jesuit Center Helps Addicts Lead New Lives
14/5/08
Sanjan Thapa Magar blames his desire to be “grown-up” for fueling his hashish addiction, beginning at age 13. Six years later, he just wants a fresh start in life. “I was 13 when I started having this feeling that I was already grown up,” Magar, a Kathmandu resident, told UCA News on April 23. “This was when I started drinking and using drugs.” His mother eventually took him to Freedom Center, a Jesuit-run rehabilitation facility for alcoholics and drug abusers in Nakhipot, southern Kathmandu, where he spent a year. “After I recovered and went home, I resumed smoking hashish,” he recounted. And that brought him back to Freedom Center last December. Now, five months later, he feels he has “gained enough confidence to start a new life after I fully recover here.”
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