Graduation day is a big day!
Graduation day is a very important and valuable day to remember for the student, family, friends and Narconon staff.
This means that the student has had a life changing and heart warming experience and has gained the many life skills needed to go out into the world to be successful and achieve personal goals and dreams in a drug-free way.
A Narconon counselor helps students develop a personalized plan of specific steps to take in order to reconstruct and maintain a healthy, ethical, constructive life with family, friends and their environment.
Narconon staff maintain close contact with students to help monitor stability of program result.
It’s no surprise with the students going through the best drug detoxification process and learning the greatest life skills to achieve maximum success that the Narconon program produces over an 80% success rate.
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Narconon Facilities
Not only does the drug rehabilitation process achieve maximum results, but the facilities are in high quality standards to ensure the students are comfortable with their stay.
While students are getting their drug rehabilitation treatment, they also have access to their own leisure time to write letters to their family, take a walk, read a book, play games or mingle with other students and plenty of other recreational activities.
Students get to enjoy three nutritious meals a day as it’s vital to living a healthy energized life. Snacks are served in-between meals and vitamins are given to students to restore the vitamins that the drugs burned up.
Students are expected to keep their rooms clean and tidy. This helps them to take responsibility for and care for keeping their own area clean.
Schedules are set to help students stay focused throughout the program. This ensures that students always have something productive to do which helps them to adjust to living a productive life.
Normal bedtime hours are maintained to ensure students get plenty of rest as each day is full of different challenging activities.
So no doubt about it, the environment is set up to give students exactly what they need to prepare them for a drug-free life!
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A Success Story out of Thousands!
“Hello. My name is Ole-Morten Johansen. I’m 24 years old. I’m writing a story about how my life has been after doing the Narconon program at Narconon Denmark.
When I came back to Norway, I thought that the world had changed drastically, but I fast realized that the world didn’t change. The people in my city were exactly the same. I could then feel that the only thing that had changed was my own life.
I came to Frederikstad in Norway with a new view on life and saw the real world as it was, with all the traps the city has. But with the things I learned at Narconon, I see the traps as they are and I know the consequences if I go into them again. Narconon gave me the knowledge I needed to get my life back and be in control over it as I want.
Now I have been drug free for 1-1/2 years. I don’t have cravings for drugs and I have stepped into a positive environment. I have not needed to get stoned as I don’t need to escape the real world. I like to be in reality and have control.
My family is happy for the way I am and the environment I have. Many have told me that they have big respect for what I have been through and the one I have become. I have not got any negative responses--only positive. Many of my friends didn’t imagine that I could change, but I have shown them a new person and they are very impressed about it.
Narconon gave me the tools I needed to handle problems if and when they cross my way. Life is beautiful without drugs, and now I am the one in control, not the drugs. Thanks to L. Ron Hubbard and Narconon!”
There are thousands of success stories similar to Ole-Morten Johansen’s success story.
No matter how bad the drug addiction seems to be and how hopeless life seems to be, the Narconon program can help renew a person’s life completely giving them the tools necessary to confidently achieve success in a drug-free way!
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L. Ron Hubbard and the Narconon Program
More than half a century ago, L. Ron Hubbard began an investigation into the effects drugs have on thought and behavior.
In the mid-50s, Mr. Hubbard warned of the dangerous psychiatric use of LSD. Then, in the early 1960s, he became one of the first to warn of the long-term consequences of that accelerating drug culture. As the decade progressed he began to increase his research into what he described as a biochemical barrier to both mental and spiritual advancement.
In the mid-1960s one of Mr. Hubbards early books, The Fundamentals of Thought, fell into the hands of Arizona State Prison inmate, 31-year-old William Benitez.
As he studied Mr. Hubbard’s writings, Mr. Benitez became convinced he had discovered the one method that would enable him to overcome his addiction. And so he wrote to Mr. Hubbard, asking for help establishing a drug program in the prison.
Mr. Hubbard responded warmly, with both generous advice and immediate permission for Mr. Benitez to use the methods he had developed. Subsequently, on February 19, 1966, Narconon was established and within a year it had spread to fourteen U.S. prisons.
When he was released, Mr. Benitez opened the first residential Narconon program in Los Angeles in 1971 as a halfway house for inmates who had started the program in prison. As demand increased, Narconon Los Angeles began accepting substance abusers directly from the community and gradually developed into a full residential program.
Throughout the years, as Mr. Hubbard made further discoveries pertinent to resolution of the drug problem, Narconon incorporated these breakthroughs into its program.
In 1978, another pioneering innovation made by Mr. Hubbard was included in the Narconon lineup: the New Life Detoxification Program. Mr Hubbard had noted that drug residues could lodge in the fatty tissue of the body, continuing to create drug cravings and mental effects such as “flashbacks” for years after drug use. So, to cleanse the body of these residues, he developed a precise regimen that included exercise, nutritional supplements, sauna sweat-out, and adequate replacement of fluids and oils.
The addition of this detoxification protocol to the Narconon program brought dramatic changes, from the complete cessation of drug cravings to increased clarity of both perceptions and thought.
The Origins of Narconon
The Narconon program was founded in 1966 by William Benitez. Having tried all existing methods to escape his addiction, he continued to search for a way out. In the prison library he came across a book written by L. Ron Hubbard, The Fundamentals of Thought, which outlined an entirely new approach toward solving the problems in life.
After reflecting on what he read, he literally jumped down from his double bunk in the old cell block and made the following notation on his wall calendar: “Decision to set up Narcotic Foundation.” He also circled the 18th of the same month as his target date to approach prison officials to request permission to set up a drug rehabilitation program inside prison walls.
Initially, the officials denied permission due to their concerns about security. Benitez persisted and finally gained the support of the prison administration and started a pilot program with 20 other inmates.
“What impressed me the most about Mr. Hubbard’s works,” Benitez later wrote, “was that they concentrated not only on identifying abilities, but also on methods (practical exercises) by which to develop them. I realized that drug addiction was nothing more than a ‘disability,’ that begins when a person ceases to use abilities essential to constructive survival.”
From these works, with help of volunteers and later contributions from Mr. Hubbard, Benitez developed a comprehensive program. He named it “Narconon” (NARCOtics-NONe) meaning “no-drugs.”
Benitez credited this program for saving his life and the lives of his fellow inmates who had participated in the initial pilot. Benitez even turned down early parole, as he did not want to leave the prison until the pilot was successfully completed. His intention was clear, he knew that he had discovered an effective method and wanted to make sure that it was made available to others in need.
“I demonstrated to officials that any person, inmate or otherwise, could benefit from Narconon because its attention was on increasing abilities, that we had an ethics mechanism built into the program, and that the responsibility and involvement required of a member could soon dissuade anyone not serious about improvement... The program met its expectations so well that seven months after the beginning of Narconon, I was asked to start another program for young offenders housed in the annex outside the prison walls.”
Upon his release, Benitez moved to California and after incorporating Narconon as a non-profit organization, opened the first Narconon residential treatment facility in Los Angeles in 1971 as a halfway house for inmates who had started the program in prison. As demand increased, Narconon Los Angeles began accepting substance abusers directly from the community and this gradually developed into a full residential program. This center has continued in operation to this day.
Over 40 years later, the Narconon programs worldwide retain that essential character -- a drug-free, educational, life skills program. The network of Narconon programs has expanded from that one program in Arizona State Prison to now include residential, out-patient, adult and juvenile centers across the United States as well as the rest of the Americas, Europe, Africa, Australia and Asia.
The need for effective drug rehabilitation is greater today than ever before, for the scope of the problem is vast. To further increase our efforts, Narconon programs has built alliances and partnerships with community leaders, health professionals and government agencies.
Narconon Drug Rehabilitation
