Why Is the Narconon Program Effective?

The Narconon program has a success rate of over 70% of the graduates from the program living fully drug-free lives.

This level of success is due to the thoroughness of the program and the effectiveness of the drug rehabilitation techniques developed by L. Ron Hubbard, which are used throughout the program.

How Does the Narconon Drug Rehabilitation Program Work?

The program begins with a drug-free withdrawal, during which the substance abuser is provided with specific supplementary vitamins and minerals to minimize the physical problems associated with the initial halting of drug use. Additionally, special and quite unique procedures developed by L. Ron Hubbard, called “assists,” are used to further ease the discomfort of withdrawal.

The addict then undergoes a detoxification regimen, also unique in the drug rehabilitation field, and one which contributes greatly to the program’s 70% success rate. The detoxification program consists of an intensive sauna and exercise program, carried out in conjunction with carefully administered vitamin and mineral supplementation. Also developed by Mr. Hubbard, this detox program enables the body to rid itself of drug metabolite residues lodged in fatty tissues. This is crucial because the release of such substances back into the bloodstream when a person becomes anxious, excited or physically active, even years later, causes the addict to again feel cravings to take drugs.

As Dr. Shelley Beckmann explained: “This accounts for the backsliding or reversion that is the order of the day with hard-core users after other rehabs.” Her 1994 study of the reduction of body burdens through the sauna program validated the experiential observation that the sauna program frees addicts from drug residues—and, hence, from drug cravings.

There are also significant emotional and behavioral correlates to substance abuse. Commonly, heavy drug abusers will lie, steal, and degrade themselves in order to procure additional drugs or simply because the impact of the drugs on them emotionally serves to make them unfeeling and uncaring of others.

The Narconon drug rehabilitation program addresses this and the fact that, to a greater or lesser degree, the addict resorted to drugs due to an inability to successfully handle situations in his life. That the drugs then became their own reason for further drug use does not belie the fact that the detoxified addict still has a need to learn life skills.

Thus the Narconon program includes a series of courses and practical exercises utilizing technologies developed by L. Ron Hubbard. These provide the former addict with tools and abilities needed to deal successfully with life situations and interact positively and responsibly with loved ones, associates and in the community as a whole.

As the Narconon drug rehabilitation program fully addresses the multiple ways in which drugs impact on the individual, program graduates are consistently released from the chains of addiction. No longer trapped with bodies that physically repeat the demand for further drugs, and no longer needing a refuge from aspects of life that seem “too difficult” or “too unfair” to deal with, the graduates become truly free and able to contribute to their communities and to build decent and socially beneficial relationships.