Breakthrough in the field of drug rehab

The biochemical discovery

That is the breakthrough that now makes handling drugs and addiction possible where so many earlier methods have failed?

An individual perceives much of existence through the sensory channels of the body. The body is a communications center for the spiritual being — the person himself — with the brain acting as a switchboard for translating thought into action. The biochemical actions of drugs alter the normal operations of this pattern, often with harmful or even disastrous consequences. People under the influence of drugs, even if taken years before, can be in a “wooden” state — unfeeling, insensitive and not capable or trustworthy.

Where the object of spiritual betterment is to increase awareness and rational mental activity and to make individuals more able in all aspects of their lives, progress is directly blocked by drugs.

International studies have confirmed the efficacy of the Hubbard detoxification method.

L. Ron Hubbard researched this barrier to spiritual freedom long before it was recognized by others as the major social concern it is today, and his work yielded a truly effective handling for the adverse biochemical effects of drugs and other toxins.

Among his significant discoveries was that residues from drugs and other toxins lodge in the fatty tissues of the body and stay there, even years after they have been ingested, and these residues can continue to affect the individual adversely long after the effect of the drug has apparently worn off.

Such deposits can cause lowered perception, tiredness, confused thinking and a host of other symptoms — all of which impede achieving increased spiritual awareness and ability.

Realizing that this biochemical factor had to be handled before an individual could achieve lasting spiritual gain, Mr. Hubbard devised what independent researchers acknowledge as the safest, most effective — and only — detoxification procedure of its kind: the Purification Program.

Developed to address the biochemical barrier to spiritual gain, the Purification Program is a carefully designed regimen of exercise, nutrition and sauna use which dislodges drug residues and other toxins from the fatty tissues so that these substances can then be eliminated from the body. A person undergoing this programme is closely monitored by specially trained personnel in liaison with medical doctors to ensure that each aspect of the programme is conducted precisely and the desired benefits are attained.

Once the person has been freed from the harmful effects of these drug residues and other toxins, he is in a far better position to improve as a spiritual being. And this is a state to which many thousands have attested.

While Mr. Hubbard developed his program in 1980 to enhance spiritual development, it was evident that the same method was effective in treating chronic drug addiction. Thus, Narconon adopted it as part of its rehabilitation program.

CHERNOBYL DISASTER: In the wake of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor disaster, Mr. Hubbard’s detoxification methods were employed and successfully reduced physical accumulations of radioactive particles in Russian victims located within the fallout zone of the reactor, as reported in clinical trials.

News of Mr. Hubbard’s breakthrough soon reached the scientific community. It became evident that the same methods could be used effectively to address a variety of toxic exposures. Thus, important studies embarked upon over the past two decades have provided repeated evidence of the program’s efficacy in eliminating toxins from the body. Its positive detoxification results have been experienced by people the world over — in secular programs ranging from victims of the Chernobyl reactor disaster, to rescue workers exposed to high levels of toxins and pollutants following the collapse of the World Trade Center.

In the state of Michigan in the United States, the accidental contamination of cattle with a toxic fire retardant resulted in 97% of the state’s population having detectable amounts of the retardant in their fatty tissues a full five years later. In 1982, a group was put through the Purification Program. Tests before and after showed a toxin decrease of over 20%. A follow-up examination four months later proved even more significant: Levels of toxins continued to decrease after the program had been completed and showed an average decrease of more than 40%.

WORLD TRADE CENTER COLLAPSE: New York rescue workers, firefighters and emergency medical technicians, suffering from excessively high levels of toxins encountered during their 9/11 rescue efforts, have been treated successfully by the New York Rescue Workers Detoxification Project, which also employs Mr. Hubbard’s methods.

Similarly, in 1983, independent researchers conducted tests on a woman who had done the Purification Program after heavy exposure to industrial contaminants. The study noted, “Removal of the toxic substances from her system was accompanied by remission of her subjective complaints as well. She no longer felt the extreme tiredness, malaise and lethargy she had been experiencing since her exposure.”

These early results generated interest from medical and biochemical authorities and, consequently, in study after study through the years, Mr. Hubbard’s research has been validated.

Among the numerous correlative studies was one headed in 1995 by the Research Center for Chronic Pain and Dependency Disorders. Monitoring the rehabilitation of cocaine and Valium addicts using Mr. Hubbard’s technology, researchers found that the detoxification procedure resulted in previously undetectable drugs appearing in both the urine and sweat of former drug users.

The workability of the Purification Program has been experienced by people on every continent. Many who have completed the program report that, along with the eradication of any craving for drugs, they are able to see or hear better than before, can study effectively for the first time, are able to learn new subjects much more easily, get along better with people, appreciate what is going on around them and generally feel healthier and happier.

The entire program is fully explained in the book by L. Ron Hubbard, Clear Body, Clear Mind: The Effective Purification Program.

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.

Who is L. Ron Hubbard?

L. Ron Hubbard was a writer, philosopher and humanitarian who founded the Scientology religion. He passed away on January 24, 1986.

As a prolific and popular author, Mr. Hubbard is best known for his works on Dianetics and Scientology—which include 18 volumes of technical writings, 12 volumes of administrative works and more than 3,000 taped lectures describing various aspects of Scientology. He also wrote on the subjects of education, drug rehabilitation, morals, art and many other areas.

A remarkable man of many accomplishments, his legacy includes:

A drug rehabilitation program that has freed more than 250,000 people from the scourge of drugs. Today, this program is administered by Narconon International in 50 centers in 21 countries.

A Study Technology that is used today in 29 countries and on 6 continents, ranging from China to the black townships of South Africa and the inner cities of the United States. More than three million people around the world have attained literacy through the work of the organization that administers this technology, Applied Scholastics International.