Program Overview
The Narconon® Program
has a 76% Graduate
Success Rate backed by our solid guarantee that if any graduate of
our program relapses within six months of graduation we will readmit
them at no cost!
Narconon is committed to providing
individualized treatment and effective rehabilitation at an affordable
rate and offers the lowest cost of any Narconon Center in the United
States.
Every family in America is somehow affected by drug
addiction and alcoholism. These days, heroin, crack, methamphetamine,
cocaine, LSD, ketamine, MDMA or ecstasy and other drugs are being
more heavily abused by adolescents and adults than ever before. Families
suffer huge losses while the drug addict steals, lies, gets arrested
and goes to jail. Many go to drug rehabilitation centers, only to
go back to drugs after a short time.
The Narconon drug rehab program produces spectacular
results in removing the root causes of addiction. One of the cornerstones
of our treatment is the Detoxification program. Drugs such as crack
cocaine, heroin, valium, PCP, amphetamines (crank, crystal, meth,
ecstasy, etc.) alcohol and their residues, including medicinal drugs
can remain in the body for years. These residues can trigger a variety
of symptoms, including drug cravings and depression. A vital step
in the successful rehabilitation of substance abuse is flushing out
these accumulated toxic residues so that the person no longer experiences
unwanted adverse effects from the drugs they have taken. An exact
regimen of medically supervised exercise, periods of time sweating
in a dry sauna and nutritional supplements are used to rid the fatty
tissues in the body of these drug residues.
The results can be spectacular.
While drug abuse and alcoholism
is becoming more prevalent, effective drug rehab and drug treatment
is scarce and hard to find. The Narconon Program offers a way out
for the alcoholic or drug addict.
7 of 10 Narconon graduates
remain drug-free after five years, a testament to the fact that
this form of rehabilitation is the most effective ever!
The Narconon Method
There are two prominent schools of thought in the area
of addiction today. One side explains the mechanism of addiction
by the action of faulty genetic coding caused by a hereditary disease.
The other tells us that addicts are a product of their environment
and that addiction is a mental health issue, resolvable by drug therapies
and psychiatry. The problem is the majority of those who undergo
modern therapeutic treatment promptly relapse.
It appears that clients in most thirty day programs
spend 100% of their time addressing 50% of the problem, yielding
mixed results. Narconon is the first successful treatment center
that breaks free from the nominal success of most prescribed thirty
day and outpatient modalities of treatment.
With individualized courses and a unique form of peer
therapy Narconon aims to put our students in charge of their life
and in control of their decisions. The ability to recognize and overcome
barriers, the skills to develop personal integrity and the knowledge
to troubleshoot their own road through life gives the Narconon student
a new found sense of life and the staying power to remain drug and
alcohol free.
Look below to read more about each Phase of the Narconon
Residential Program.
Drug-Free
withdrawal: During
the Drug-Free Withdrawal stage, the addict is supervised 24 hours
a day and is actively participating in techniques specifically
designed to ease withdrawal symptoms. Nutritional therapy includes
vitamins, minerals and amino acids and healthy food. Therapeutic
processes are also incorporated to help ease the mental and physical
pains and get the body’s natural healing process operating
again. Often, addicts coming off heroin or other drugs with typically
tough withdrawal symptoms are amazed at how good they felt during
the drug-free withdrawal stage.
Book
1 – Therapeutic Training Routines: Drugs and alcohol
severely hinder the addict’s social skills and reasoning
as they have been living in an unreal world. This course is comprised
of drills and other practical steps that enable students to improve
their ability to confront situations in life, to communicate
and to resolve problems through communication.
Book 2 – The Narconon New Life Detoxification Program: This
process helps the client to sweat out the drug residuals and metabolites
stored in the body’s fatty tissue. The program utilizes intensive
sweating in dry sauna, in combination with plenty of fluids and
nutritional supplementation. This, as discussed earlier, is absolutely
vital in the successful long-term rehabilitation of the client.
Book
3 – The Learning Improvement Course: A course that
enables students to overcome barriers to study and improve their
learning skills, comprehension and ability to apply what they
study. Since most of the Narconon Program contains study, this
step is crucial to ensure the remainder of the program material
is well learned. During this step we see clients not only become
more competent as students but also more willing to study and
learn.
Book
4 – The Communication and Perception Course: The
addict or alcoholic tends to life in a world that is not based
on reality. Here, the person’s decisions are based not on
logic or reason but instead are being controlled by drugs and
cannot handle their lives. Here, the client overcomes this through
a series of study and exercises that develop self-control, extroversion
and an ability to maintain control of one’s environment.
Book
5 – The Ups and Downs in Life Course: The lifestyle
of a drug addict is filled with negative associations and influences
that perpetuate the addict’s use of drugs. This course enables
students to evaluate the characteristics and personal qualities
that make one a constructive or destructive individual. It also
provides methods for handling personal instability brought about
by acquaintance with destructive persons.
Book
6 – The Personal Values and Integrity Course: To
survive the addict must learn a new way of life. Where they once
depended on lies, thievery and distrust to survive, they must
now make necessary changes in order to stay off drugs. This course
teaches the value of honest and allows one to regain their personal
integrity through an examination of past harmful actions and
an acceptance of responsibility for these, relieving guilt.
Book
7 – The Changing Conditions in Life Course: This
course teaches how to recognize and improve conditions in life
to a more desirable state on a step-by-step basis. Here the addict
begins to repair and improve areas in their life ruined by drugs.
The client learns how to function as a contributing member of
a family, group and society.
Book
8 – The Way to Happiness Course: A study of a non-religious
moral code accepted the world over as a guide for proper conduct.
This will enable the person to recognize his or her past and
present conduct and help evaluate how to create a better
future.
Aftercare
program:
We are so confident
in our program and technology that Narconon
offers our graduates the following at no additional charge for
a period of six (6) months:
1. Off-site
Counseling:
Weekly follow
up over the phone or email with a Certified Chemical Dependency
Counselor to assist the Client in adjusting to life outside of
Narconon.
2. On-site
Counseling:
If a current
situation is not solving over the phone, the graduate may return
for a 2-3 day remedial program at the facility (not necessarily
in-patient).
3. Thirty
Day Intensive Review Program
The Client can
return to the facility as a resident for a period of up to 30 days
to review the various elements of his/her program and address any
new issues that have come to light since completing the Narconon
Program.
The
Origins of the Narconon® Drug
Rehabilitation Program
The term "Narconon" refers to both the Narconon® Drug
Rehabilitation Program and the network of over 50 Rehabilitation
and Education Centers operating in over 20 countries to date. The
word "Narconon" is derived from the Greek narco- for narcotics
and -non for none and gives us a good idea of what the Narconon
Program means to do: To help those suffering from addiction lead
a life free of all drugs.
The Narconon Program
has it’s roots in the Arizona
State Penitentiary. In 1966, an inmate and life-long heroin addict,
William Benitez began to develop the idea when he jumped from his
prison bunk and made a note on his wall calendar that read, "Decision
to set up Narcotic Foundation." After reading books by many different
authors about addiction, psychology and human ability, Benitez discovered
a book passed on to him by a friend, Fundamentals of Thought,
by L. Ron Hubbard. In that book he had found that by rehabilitating
an addict and developing within him certain abilities that
he had lacked, one could effectively stay off drugs.
After several attempts at getting prison official's
approval to start a program inside the prison, on 19 February 1966,
William Benitez had founded NARCONON.
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The first
class of the Narconon Program, 1966, Arizona State Penitentiary
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Mr. Benitez first demonstrated The
Narconon Program's effectiveness to the prison officials, then
on his release later
that year helped grow the Narconon Program to include residential
centers first in Los Angeles, California and then worldwide. Today
there are Narconon residential programs in over 20 countries, and
Narconon’s sister program, Criminon continues to grow inside
the walls of prisons across the country.
I finally realized I had developed the essential
abilities needed to overcome my drug problem. Feeling myself on
safe ground, I knew I had to make this technology available to
other addicts in the prison. I thought back over the years of all
the junkies I had shot up with, and remembered their most treasured
conversation: “One of these days I’m going to quit.”
-William Benitez Founder of Narconon
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