Telling the Truth About Drugs

Drug Education to Save our Children and Communities

Narconon staff are intimately familiar with the horrors of drug addiction, for many were themselves freed from lives of addiction by participating in the program. Consequently, Narconon staff and supporters work diligently to educate both children and adults about the dangers of substance abuse.

Over the years, Narconon drug education lecturers have developed a highly effective model and format to explain the consequences of substance abuse. Knowing that “scare tactics” don’t work, Narconon lecturers present the truth about drugs—the facts—and do so in a way that their audiences can see, understand and make up their own minds not to try these substances.

Narconon initiated providing celebrities an opportunity to set a drug-free example for youth. Kirstie Alley as Narconon International spokesperson has done so through presentation of the Drug-Free Hero Awards.

To date, more than a million young people have attended Narconon drug education presentations throughout the US and in numerous countries including Sweden, Italy, Germany, Russia, Israel, Lithuania, Hungary, Zimbabwe, Taiwan and Brazil.

In an independent study to determine the impact of the Narconon drug prevention program, students from fifteen Southern California schools were surveyed before and after attending a Narconon drug education lecture. Eighty-six percent of the students who had indicated before the lecture that they might have used drugs in the future, afterwards stated they no longer wanted to use drugs. And 57% of those who earlier had been indifferent toward drug use now had a positive change of attitude.

In Sao Paulo, Brazil, a series of drug education lectures were delivered to several thousand students, parents and teachers in an urban district said to have the highest crime rate in the world. In addition, 130 police officers were trained as drug prevention specialists. A follow-up study at one of the schools involved found that although the school population had increased 70 percent, drug use had decreased 80 percent over the two years of the program.