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The materials and methodology of the Narconon Drug rehabilitation program enable the majority of its
students to achieve a stable drug-free, productive, ethical life. A
fundamental premise of the Narconon program, known and used by all its
staff and students, is that stable recovery is achievable.
This result is not achieved without effort. Narconon students are
brought to understand that they will achieve a drug-free life only if
they use the knowledge and life skills they are learning. A vital part
of achieving this goal is developing a realistic, workable sense of
personal ethics and responsibility. Personal Addiction to drugs can be
ended. Our statistics show that a majority of our graduates have
achieved this freedom. Narconon International and its centers are
constantly working to improve their success rate.
"Addicts characteristically subordinate values such as work, family
relationships, and community responsibilities to the ingestion and
unwise use of Alcohol and/or drugs. Social neglect and criminal
behavior are frequent companions of Drug abuse and alcoholism. Efforts
to develop a functional normative system, as it is done by Narconon,
should result in favorable outcomes. Narconon has demonstrated that
this redefinition of the normative system of addicts is possible to
implement with empathy, compassion, and respect for the addict.” Alfonso Preredes, M.D.
 Dr. Paredes, board certified in Psychiatry and Neurology, is a
Professor of Psychiatry, UCLA School of Medicine. He graduated the
University of Mexico School of Medicine in 1951, interned at St. Joseph
Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri, and did residencies in Psychiatry at
the University of Kansas, University of Maryland and University of
Oklahoma. He is a member of dozens of different professional
organizations and regularly reviews peer publications in addition to
having contributed more than 100 articles or studies of his own.
To
read a review of the Narconon program by Dr. Paredes, see “A Drug Abuse
Expert’s Perspective”
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| Definitions of Terms Used |
| Addiction | Strong physiological, emotional and/or psychological dependence on a substance such as alcohol or drugs that has progressed beyond voluntary control. For more on addiction see the section Addiction Information in this website.
| | Alcohol | Refers to ethyl alcohol or ethanol.
| | Drug | Any substance, other than food, that changes the function or structure of the body or mind when ingested. Drugs essentially are poisons. The degree they are taken determines the effect. A small amount acts as a stimulant. A greater amount acts as a sedative. A larger amount acts as a poison and can kill one dead. This is true of any drug. Each has a different amount at which it gives those results.
| | Drug abuse | The use of illegal drugs or the inappropriate use of legal drugs. The repeated use of drugs to produce pleasure, to alleviate stress, or to alter or avoid reality - or all three.
| | Narconon | A non-religious, non-profit drug rehabilitation program using technology developed by author L. Ron Hubbard. The Narconon program was originally organized in Arizona State Prison in 1966 by William Benitez, an inmate who was himself a drug addict. He applyed basic principles regarding self awareness and self assurance contained in books by L. Ron Hubbard and, by doing so, completely cured his own addiction to heroin. Mr Benitez then went on to help twenty other inmates do the same. Today there are Narconon centers in 45 countries.
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