Drug-Free Withdrawal

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Narconon Program

The Steps of the Narconon Program

Drug-Free Withdrawal

Drugfree Withdrawal is an important part of the Narconon program's success in helping individuals to achieve a life free of drugs or Alcohol. The aim of this step of the program is to assist the individual through the difficult period immediately after he or she ceases to take drugs. Narconon is a Drug-free program. Upon physician approval, clients are assisted through withdrawal without drugs. Two key elements are utilized to ease the student through this phase; vitamin and mineral supplements and particular techniques that ease the mental and physical discomfort that can accompany the drug withdrawal process.

Definitions of Terms Used

Term	Description
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.
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.
Withdrawal	Symptoms that occur after chronic use of a drug is reduced or stopped.