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Effective Solutions To Drug Addiction & Alcoholism Since 1966
NARCONON Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation
The NARCONON Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation programme steps are
entirely drug-free; that is, the NARCONON programme does not
use drugs or medications to solve the problems caused by drugs or
alcohol abuse, but does use nutrition and nutritional supplements as
an important component of its delivery. Thus the programme is
neither psychiatric nor medical, but a social education model of
drug rehabilitation.
Persons enrolling in the programme must be given a full medical
physical and a GP's permission to do the programme with 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 enrol to recover from an
illness; they enrol 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
programmes to follow as they re-start their lives on a new foot. But
the full NARCONON programme is intended to produce graduates who can
stand on their own feet and live drug or alcohol free, ethical lives
thereafter. A NARCONON graduate does not go to weekly meetings for
months after completion, nor do they describe themselves as
"recovering."
A student who has graduated from the NARCONON programme has
recovered. He or she has obtained a new orientation in life. The
premise of the NARCONON model is that a former addict or alcoholic
can achieve a new life. This goal applies (and is routinely
achieved) whether the programme is delivered in a residential
centre, daily after work, or even in prison.
Once through the programme and well, if they use the tools they
have practiced and learned at a NARCONON centre, a NARCONON graduate
can stay well. This is not theoretical. There are three decades of
graduates who will swear by it.
The Narconon Drug Rehab programme is tailor made to the students
requirements. To us, the time it takes to complete our programme is
irrelevant. Each individual is different. We demand that our
graduates accomplish what it is they set out to do, which is handle
addiction forever!
Some might consider the time spent on the NARCONON programme a "therapeutic
community", but it would be more appropriate to say that NARCONON
clients are going "back to college" this time to get real tools for
real life.
A NARCONON Programme Graduate is someone
- Who has completed the NARCONON programme;
- Who knows he is, in fact, capable of living a drug-free,
alcohol-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 can
contribute to society and will have no further troubles with the
legal 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 or blocking out their troubles with alcohol.
- Each NARCONON programme graduate is expected, no matter the
severity of his or her earlier life experience, to achieve and
to live a stably drug-free, alcohol free ethical life, once and
for all.
There is no such thing as a "victim" in the NARCONON programme
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.
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