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What’s the Most Successful Drug Rehab Program?

The program steps are entirely drug-free; that is, the Narconon drug rehab program does not use drugs or medications to solve the problems caused by drugs, but does use nutrition and nutritional supplements as an important component of its delivery. Thus the program is neither a psychiatric nor medical, but a social education model of rehabilitation.

Persons enrolling in the program must receive full medical physicals, an M.D.’s permission to do the program and periodic medical review as individually needed. However, Narconon clients are not considered or treated as “patients” but as “students” who are learning to regain control of their lives. This is an important distinction. A Narconon student does not enroll to recover from an “illness”; he enrolls to learn something that he doesn’t already know. He addresses the disability caused by drug use with new abilities, new skills for life.

Narconon staff prepare graduating students with “re-entry” programs to follow as they re-start their lives on a new foot. But the full Narconon drug rehabilitation program is intended to produce graduates who can stand on their own feet and live drug-free, ethical lives thereafter. A Narconon graduate does not go to weekly meetings for months after completion, nor does he describe himself as “recovering.”

A student who has graduated from the Narconon program has recovered. He or she has obtained a new orientation in life. The premise of the Narconon model is that a former addict can achieve a new life. This goal applies (and is routinely achieved) whether the program is delivered in a free-standing center, daily after work, or even in prison.

Once well, if he uses the tools he has practiced and learned to use at a Narconon center, a Narconon graduate can stay well. This is not theoretical. There are three decades of graduates who will swear by it.

If graduates do run into serious difficulties, they return to their Narconon center where they inevitably find a specific part of the program that they earlier failed to fully understand and therefore could not apply in the travails of daily life. But the majority get it the first time through.

The Narconon program takes four to six months. During this time, some might consider the Narconon program a “therapeutic community,” but it would be more appropriate to say that Narconon clients are going “back to school”–this time to get real tools for real life.

“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

A Narconon Program Graduate is someone

• Who has completed the Narconon drug rehab program;
• Who knows he is, in fact, capable of living a drug-free life thereafter;
• Who has improved his or her ability to learn and thus can accept new ideas on how to change life for the better;
• Who has personally absorbed the fundamentals of ethics and morality well enough that he or she can be productive and contributive to society and will have no further troubles with the justice system;
• Who knows how to solve the problems of life in a rational manner to the best of his ability, without the use of mind-altering drugs.

Each Narconon program graduate is expected, no matter the severity of his or her earlier life experience, to achieve and to live a stably drug-free, ethical life, one for one.

There is no such thing as a “victim” in the Narconon program way of thinking. Even if life has dealt one a bad hand of cards, the road out is through personal recognition of responsibility for one’s own condition.

Results and Reviews of the Narconon Program

The Narconon Program has one of the highest success rates in the field of drug rehabilitation, with outside studies showing 75% of the graduates going on to lead stable, ethical, productive drug-free lives. These results are hard earned by the students, addressing many factors of one’s life, both physical and mental. It is this success that has led to the large expansion of the Narconon network over the past 36 years.

The Narconon drug prevention program has also been shown to be highly effective in raising young people’s perception of risk regarding drugs. We have hundreds of thousands of student evaluations demonstrating this change, including many statements that they will no longer use drugs now that they understand the real effects and dangers.

Their results have been documented by numerous reviews, studies and white papers on the various components of both our drug rehab and drug prevention programs.

Scientific and Research Studies of the Narconon Program

The following links provide information on studies and professional evaluations that have been done on the Narconon program and it’s methodology. Of particular interest are the findings of L. Ron Hubbard’s detoxification program.

• Narconon Science References
• Narconon Drug Prevention Curriculum- Summary
• Narconon Drug Prevention Curriculum – Detailed Description
• A Case Study on the Narconon Program for Juveniles in Utah
• The Narconon Drug Rehabilitation Program – A Descriptive Overview, by Dr. Alfonso Paredes
• Townsend Letter article on use of Hubbard Sauna Detoxification Program to Improve Health of NYC Rescue Workers
• Summary of Evaluations of the Narconon Program over the Last 25 Years
• Ending Drug Cravings – The Narconon Program’s Unique Detoxification Program
• A Physician’s Perspective
• A Drug Abuse Expert’s Perspective
• The Narconon Drug Rehabilitation Program – On-going Program Evaluation

Grateful acknowledgement is made to L. Ron Hubbard Library for permission to reproduce selections from the copyrighted works of L. Ron Hubbard.

Saving Lives with Drug Education

L. Ron Hubbard wrote, “Drug addicts have been found to have begun drug-taking because of physical suffering or hopelessness.”

The key to handling the drug problem is prevention. For this reason, IAS-sponsored awareness campaigns have been implemented to bring the truth about drugs to millions. Billboards, notices in magazines, radio announcements, posters, pamphlets and comprehensive booklets are making the real facts about drugs known.

Highly effective booklets which explain the dangers of drugs have been funded by IAS grants and distributed by its members throughout Europe. They are a key component of the anti-drug campaign and are published in 15 languages with millions distributed. The booklets provide facts about many street drugs and are having a very positive impact on young people. Many have told volunteers that after reading one of the booklets they either stopped taking drugs or decided not to start in the first place.

To give parents and educators a better understanding of the drugs their children are exposed to, the Church of Scientology published Drugs and Children: What to do. The booklet describes the effects of drugs on children and how to communicate to young people about the dangers of drugs. These booklets have been funded by IAS grants and have been distributed as a public service by Churches of Scientology and individual members of the IAS throughout Europe.

Federal and local government officials and police have found the booklets to be an effective weapon they can use in their own efforts in the war on drugs. Business owners, police officers, doctors, nightclubs, schools, community newspapers, radio stations and anti-drug organizations have distributed the booklet.
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Athletes, officials, school children and parents all across Europe also signed a pledge making a commitment to be drug-free.

As with many IAS-sponsored programs carried out by members, these small booklets are literally saving lives.