|
|
“The addict has been found not to want to be an addict,
but is driven by pain and environmental hopelessness. As soon
as an addict can feel healthier and more competent mentally
and physically without drugs than he does on drugs, he ceases
to require drugs.”
L. Ron Hubbard.
www.narconon.org www.stopaddiction.com
www.able.org/pages/nn.php
 Whether
at its international training center and major rehabilitation
facility established by ABLE in rural Oklahoma, at its Australian
center which focuses on the substance abuse problems of the
aboriginal people there, in a prison program in Taiwan or in
a juvenile offender program in Salt Lake City, Utah, it is the
Narconon drug rehabilitation program’s common components
that make it so extraordinarily effective and workable even
in these diverse settings.
For decades now, Narconon International
has provided a successful drug-free
alternative in the fields of drug rehabilitation and prevention.
Starting with one drug rehabilitation
 |
| Narconon Arrowhead in
Oklahoma can provide residential treatment services to
more than 200 students at a time, and is the international
Narconon training center. |
program in 1966, by 2001 it managed
a network of more than 70 centers in 30 countries.
The program begins with a drug-free withdrawal, during which
the substance abuser is provided with specific supplementary
vitamins and minerals to minimize the physical problems associated
with the initial halting of drug use. Additionally, special
and quite unique procedures developed by L. Ron Hubbard, called
“assists,” are used to further ease the discomfort
of withdrawal.
The addict then undergoes a detoxification regimen, also unique
in the drug rehabilitation field, and one which contributes
greatly to the program’s
70% success rate. The detoxification program consists of an
intensive sauna and exercise
program, carried out in conjunction with
carefully administered vitamin and mineral supplementation.
Also developed by Mr. Hubbard, this detox program enables the
body to rid itself of drug metabolite residues
 |
|
Narconon Mediterraneo
in Spain, one of the 70 Narconon centers around the
world, provides drug rehabilitation services and is
also the Narconon training center for Europe.
|
lodged in fatty tissues. This is crucial
because the release of such substances back into the bloodstream
when a person becomes anxious, excited or physically active,
even years later causes the addict to again feel cravings to
take drugs.
As Dr. Shelley Beckmann explained: “This accounts for the
backsliding or reversion that is the order of the day with hard-core
users after other rehabs.” Her 1994 study of the reduction
of body burdens of such drug metabolites through the sauna program
validated the experiential observation that the sauna program
frees addicts from drug residues—and, hence, from drug
cravings.
Substance abuse, however, entails more than just the physical
consequences of the consumption, inhalation or injection of
harmful substances. There are also significant emotional and
behavioral correlates. Commonly, heavy drug abusers will lie,
steal, and degrade themselves in order to procure additional
drugs or simply because the impact of the drugs on them emotionally
serves to make them unfeeling and uncaring of others.
 The
Narconon drug rehabilitation program addresses this and the
fact that, to a greater or lesser degree, the addict resorted
to drugs due to an inability to successfully handle situations
in his life. That the drugs then became their own reason for
further drug use does not belie the fact that the detoxified
addict still has a need to learn life skills.
Thus the Narconon program includes a series of courses and practical
exercises utilizing technologies developed by L. Ron Hubbard.
These provide the former addict with tools and abilities needed
to deal successfully with life situations and interact positively
and responsibly with loved ones, associates and in the community
as a whole.
As the Narconon drug rehabilitation program fully addresses
the multiple ways in which drugs impact on the individual, program
graduates are consistently released from the chains of addiction.
No longer trapped with bodies that physically repeat the demand
for further drugs, and no longer needing a refuge from aspects
of life that seem “too difficult” or “too unfair”
to deal with, the graduates become truly free and able to contribute
to their communities and to build decent and socially beneficial
relationships.
|
| |
|
 |
“True rehabilitation
means the repairing and reclaiming of broken lives and
relationships;  the
commitment to mend these broken lives is clearly evident
at Narconon.
“I have reviewed and followed the growth and development
of Narconon’s program in Oklahoma since its inception
in 1990. Over the course of several visits, I have the
had the opportunity to speak with both recovering addicts
and Narconon staff. The most remarkable thing about these
encounters has been the overwhelming sense of hope, the
certainty that the steps of the Narconon program can return
addicts to stable and productive lives.”
Emory Johnson M.D. M.P.H.
Assistant Surgeon General
U. S. Public Health Service (retired)
“For years drugs owned me, alienated  me
from my family and eventually sent me to prison. Nothing
else but scoring heroin mattered to me. I attempted to
get clean numerous times, but only when arrested and facing
jail or when a close friend would overdose and die.
“After many failures in other programs I gave up
and found myself in state prison, hopeless and beaten.
My life was over until my father heard about and sent
me to Narconon. The first thing I noticed was that the
staff really cared about me. They had all been through
similar drug problems and they understood.
“Narconon had a system, L. Ron Hubbard’s technology,
that not only shows you how to stop using drugs but teaches
you how to live life, solve problems, set and achieve
positive goals. I graduated the program over 5 years ago.
I got married. Narconon saved not only my life but my
wife Stephanie’s too. She is the mother of my healthy,
bright daughter. Thank you all for my wonderful life.”
Richie Almstead
“Narconon has a unique position in the rehabilitation
field. It offers addicts a relatively painless, drug-free
withdrawal—something that most addicts and professionals
consider impossible.
It has developed effective programs at no cost to taxpayers,
at a time when the government has invested billions of
dollars in experimental approaches that have not offered
satisfactory solutions.”
Alphonso Paredes, M.D.
UCLA School of Medicine |
|
|
