Phase I Drug Free Withdrawal

Drugs such as heroin and alcohol normally come with a considerable amount of physical discomfort when an individual stops taking them. That is why Narconon conducts a pre-medical evaluation and provides safe 24-hour care, making drug free withdrawal relatively pain free. For severe cases hospitalization is available to help ease any physical discomfort experienced while withdrawing from drugs or alcohol. Once released from the hospital, the individual will continue with their drug free withdrawal process at the Narconon location. Each and every individual who enters the Narconon program will be watched over by detox specialists to help insure a relatively pain free withdrawal and to ensure all their emotional needs are met.

This phase of the program is designed to help the individual withdrawal from drugs without having to suffer the usual painful withdrawal symptoms. When an individual takes drugs and alcohol their body becomes depleted of vitamins and minerals. The Narconon program uses specific nutritional compounds to help rebuild the person physically. When a person is withdrawing from drugs and alcohol they are under supervision by a trained specialist at all times. This lasts until both the physical and mental pain completely goes away.

.I am still alive! Even though it.s only been 5 days, I.m OK and with no dope! The withdrawal process was remarkably mild. I have never successfully completed a withdrawal for some years. I could not deal with the withdrawal, the depression, and the long pain. That.s why I was on methadone for so long. Now I am clean and looking forward to the sauna to complete the process. I don.t want to get ahead of myself, but that is a goal that I think would really brighten my outlook on myself and my future. Thanks!.

-JP

Narconon Therapeutic TRs Course

The term .TR. stands for training routines. This course is specifically created to help individuals with communication skills. These drills are set up to help the student improve their ability to confront any situation they come across through communication. Individuals who have a problem with drugs or alcohol usually have a hard time communicating with those around them. They often find it hard to talk about subjects they view are unpleasant. Typically, when and addict is forced to confront sensitive issues they withdrawal from their friends and family. The TR course has eight different training routines to help with this problem. Students are extroverted by this therapeutic approach which helps them resolve problems with others easily.

.The therapeutic training routines were amazing! I was at the tail end of withdrawing from heroin and was feeling sick and aching. I started doing the 2nd drill, which deals with confronting another person. After a while, all the sickness and aches disappeared. I realized at the end that most of my drug use was due to my inability to confront people and situations. I knew I could live without drugs at that point. something I didn.t think was possible before doing this course..

-GS

New Life Detoxification Procedure

The New Life Detoxification Program was created in 1978 by Mr. Hubbard. This pioneering innovation uses intense sweating in a dry sauna in combined with lots of fluids and nutritional supplements. This process reduces drug residuals from the addict.s body. Residues from drugs can remain in the body for years after they have been taken and it is important that they are removed. These residues can cause drug cravings and depression. This process is a vital step in the rehabilitation process.

The New Life Detoxification program removes the root cause of future physical re-stimulation. Many different types of drugs remain in the body long after the individual has consumed them. These different types of drugs include cocaine, heroin, valium, pcp, amphetamines, crank, crystal meth, methamphetamine, ecstasy, alcohol and medicinal drugs such as narcotic painkillers, tranquilizers, and sleeping pills. As time passes, the residues and metabolites of the above mentioned drugs stay in the fatty tissues of the user. If these residues and metabolites were to remain in the individual, it could hinder their ability to remain drug free once graduating the Narconon program.

The residues left behind from the drugs can cause the individual to experience drug cravings and depression. A key point in successful drug rehabilitation is flushing out the accumulated toxic residues. A protocol of medically supervised exercise in addition to periods of sweating in a dry sauna and nutritional supplements are utilized to rid the fatty tissues of the remaining drug residues. Often times, the results are extremely phenomenal. It leaves the individual with reduced drug cravings, and in many cases, without ANY cravings for drugs at all.

"I have acted as Medical Consultant to the Narconon program for 15 years. For the past decade, I have studied the results obtained with a detoxification method used by Narconon that utilizes vitamins, sauna baths, and exercise. While this detoxification method is strenuous, it is easily and safely accomplished under the supervision of trained personnel. Narconon students with histories of moderate to extremely heavy substance abuse show a marked improvement in alertness, clarity of thought, and general health by undergoing this treatment. Most report a substantial reduction in their craving for drugs or alcohol. Published scientific studies of the technique have shown it successful in reducing the variety of toxins and contaminants in the body tissues. I highly recommend its continued use as an effective tool in the treatment of addictions."

-Kathleen Kerr, M.D

PHASE II

Learning Improvement Course

The learning improvement course helps students with their ability to learn and comprehend knowledge that is presented to them. In addition, it helps them with overcoming problems they may have had regarding studying and learning. Students learn how to .clear. words from the dictionary, create realistic demonstrations of concepts, and to notice and take care of gradient difficulties. To summarize, this course helps the students learn how to make the Narconon course part of their daily lives as well as achieve success in any field of study.

In addition to the learning improvement course, Phase II incorporates tools to help the student achieve goals and regain their self-control. Students are guided through ways to snap out of traumatic events of the past which they may be stuck in. This course helps them increase their ability to handle such events in life.

.Even after years of college, I never realized how inadequate my learning skills really were. This course illustrated to me that I still had a lot to learn about learning. I just wish I had these skills before I went to school, because I would have gotten much more out of it..

-CY

The Communications and Perception Course

This course is multi-faceted in that it further develops the communication skills necessary to confront and overcome the day to day problems associated with living drug-free. It gives the student the ability to be comfortable and confident within ones self. Drugs are a way for people to escape reality and change the way they feel. When the individual is not on drugs they usually try to ignore or change their feelings. In turn, when the drugs wear off, they are left feeling introverted and worse than before they took the drugs. Also, experiences from their past stay with them, making them feel even worse. This course helps the student focus their attention on the present. At this point their perception of their environment improves as well as their communication with others. The Communications and Perception Course helps students become more .causative. over their lives and their surroundings instead of being affected by it.

Objective Exercises

Objective exercises are dynamic therapies that are original to the Narconon program. The purpose is to "unstick" the addict's attention from events and traumas that can cause them to be obsessed with the past.

Drugs act on a person.s body as a painkiller making them numb to what is going on around them. An addict becomes unable, because of their drug abuse, to be comfortable with everyday emotions and experiences. Since the present is unbearable, they tend to dwell on past sorrows and upsets or to live in a fantasy world of the future. Since the individual is not living in the present mentally, they are unable to control their life. They cannot achieve their goals or have healthy relationships, and do not know how to handle responsibility.

"Before I came to Narconon, I didn.t have an objective viewpoint on anything. Drugs had clouded my ability to see things as they really were. All I saw when I looked at someone, even my own family, was someone I could get money from for drugs. The Communication and Perception course pulled me out of past bad experiences that were affecting my thinking and behavior. My past is a chapter that is now closed, and for the first time in 25 years I.m free to be and do what I choose..

-LD

Phase III

Ups and Downs in Life Course

This course gives the student the ability to confront all the underlying issues which caused them to begin their drug use, as well as their present problems. They learn to identify social and anti-social characteristics in others as well as themselves. This course makes them capable of recognizing situations that are potentially a source of trouble and their options when confronted with these situations. Students will also be provided with the experience necessary to handle real life situations. This is accomplished by placing them in simulated environments that they might come in contact with in the future.

Often, drug addicts and alcoholics are susceptible to negative influences. In this course, students learn the characteristics of social and anti-social personalities in order to evaluate objectively and choose those people in their lives who need to be avoided. Completing this course enables the individual to evaluate behavioral, constructive, and destructive characteristics. It also provides them with the appropriate methods to handling these people. This is a major part of being able to remain drug-free.

.I.ve never been really good at picking the right type of friend. I always seem to get mixed up with people who were bad for me and regretted it later. This course has taught me how to stay out of situations that would lead me back to drugs..

-LD

Personal Values and Integrity Course

Addicts often find that through their addiction they loose their sense of personal integrity. This is because the life style that goes along with addiction is one that almost always involves lying to friends or family, and almost as often involves the commission of illegal acts. As time goes by many addicts find that they never lived any other way. Restoring personal integrity is not just a moral issue; it is a matter of survival. It is a fact that until one can confront and be honest about ones past, a person will be haunted by it. Until these types of misdeeds are dealt with, the addict will continue to be plagued with:

Unwillingness to communicate
Withdrawal from family and friends
Unhandled hostility toward those who try to help him or her
Feelings of resentment towards authority
A sense of being uncomfortable around ethical people
Inability to have stable relationships

There is even such a thing as a .drug personality.. It is a fake personality that is created by drugs and alcohol. Choosing the wrong friends and acquaintances can become something that is destructive and difficult to handle. When an individual takes drug or alcohol it changes their personality to one that is secretly harboring hostilities and hatred that they did not want to show on the surface. An entire section of the Personal Values and Integrity Course has been developed to handle just this. It goes over how to choose and live with the type of people best suited for long-term survival. It covers how to develop and maintain these relationships, nurturing them to produce what truly is needed and wanted by the recovering addict.

This offers the student an opportunity to clear their conscience of past transgressions and elicit behavior by taking full responsibility for their actions. It provides the student with a code of honor to live by, stresses the importance of being honest in their lives, and the benefits of living in an ethical manner.

.All through my life I never really liked or felt comfortable with other people. I was pretty sarcastic and had few close friends. I always felt that I was treated unfairly and that my drug use was justified because there wasn.t much in life worth experiencing. Well, I was wrong. This course made me realize how my own dishonesty made me withdraw from those I loved and made it impossible for me to truly care about anyone else. It was hard, but I cannot imagine anything more valuable than feeling like a human being again..

-LL

The Personal Values and Integrity Course helps restore the student to their basic sense of right and wrong. It provides them the ability to live honestly again. Values and purposes are recovered and strengthened. Students often experience a strong feeling of relief, and a newfound sense of freedom and self-respect because of this course.

Phase IV

The Changing Conditions in Life Course

Difficult choices arise for everyone at some point in their life. For those who are addicted to drugs the difficult choices they make can be deadly.

This course gives students the exact formulas to evaluate objectively and improve conditions having to do with their self, their family, the groups they belong to, and other areas of life. They learn that any condition can be changed for the better as long as it is handled correctly. On this course, the student takes specific actions to repair the past and present conditions in their life. They are given the tools with which they can continue to improve conditions and situations in the future.

.I have always had difficulty in dealing with real-life situations because I became confused about what was the .right. thing to do. How to deal with family, girlfriends, bosses, etc. This course taught me specific ways about how to decide on a course of action for any situation. I am certain that I can now make the right decisions, now matter what. something I was never able to do in the past!"

-ST

The Way to Happiness Course

Wouldn.t it be wonderful to be handed a .How to Live Life. manual? As nice as this would be, it is not the case. Most of us go through life by trial and error. The Way to Happiness Course helps introduce the student to common sense moral code that they can use in living a new drug and alcohol-free life.

.I.ve never seen a program like this. It.s amazing... The book "Way to Happiness" made me feel alive, as if I want to help others, and be a good person. Since doing this program I realize that alcohol is a thing of the past. I will never use again. To live and not be happy is NOT living! Thanks Narconon!.

-GL

Phase V

Phase V of the Narconon program was created to insure that maximum gains were attained during each and every step of the program.

Final Program Review

This is comprised of two essential components tailored to meet the needs of each student.

1. A comprehensive review to ensure the student has thoroughly completed all phases of the program.

2. Creating a battle plan. This is a plan for the new life that the student is beginning upon their completion of the Narconon program. This plan incorporates the application of their entire program and the student customizes it for their life and personal goals. This plan must be agreed upon by the student and their senior case supervisor. The plan must be seen to have the maximum potential for the student.s success.

This last step incorporates every step of the Narconon Drug Rehabilitation Program. It helps to ensure that the graduate will live a drug-free, productive, and ethical life. Although each action of the Narconon program produces significant gains, it is the combined effect of all these steps collectively which result in full and permanent recovery. Thirty years have shown this to be true. Narconon can proudly claim, and has demonstrated with thousands of case histories, that addiction can be ended.

Follow-up Program

I. A comprehensive long-term follow-up program is designed and implemented to assist the student through the first year of their recovery. This is achieved by regular communication with the graduate and their family members. They monitor and address the graduates stability and progress after their graduation from the program. The graduate may be required to return to Narconon should they face life situations that may threaten their sobriety. The student will receive special assistance in addressing these life issues so he or she may maintain a drug and alcohol-free life.

Everything in detail is handled on an individual case by case basis to establish confidentially a comfortable entry into the treatment process of drug and/or alcohol addiction. The entire Narconon program typically takes between 3-5 months to complete. The difference in time depends on each individual and what is required for them to achieve success. We believe that recovery takes as long as it takes.

II. A follow-up program may include the student staying supervised, in an after care program, for an additional 6 months. Here, the student will be provided free room and board in staff housing where they will be supervised while they slowly and safely become accustomed to their new found life. They will take a slow gradient step into society while applying everything that they have learned. They will be given a job, job training, and a small stipend each week. They will live in the Narconon center where they can help others and work in an ethical, supervised environment and gain valuable experience that will help them through life. They will build self-confidence and self-esteem which are invaluable in preventing relapse.