Our Program
Narconon® of California
Our Drug
Rehabilitation Program
There are two prominent
schools of thought in the area of addiction today. One side explains the
mechanism of addiction by the action of faulty genetic coding caused by a
hereditary disease. The other tells us that addicts are a product of their
environment and that addiction is a mental health issue, resolvable by drug
therapies and psychiatry. The problem is the majority of those who undergo
modern therapeutic treatment promptly relapse.
It appears that clients
in most thirty day programs spend 100% of their time addressing 50% of the
problem, yielding mixed results. Narconon is the first successful treatment
center that breaks free from the nominal success of most prescribed thirty day
and outpatient modalities of treatment.
With individualized courses and a
unique form of peer therapy Narconon aims to put our students in charge of
their life and in control of their decisions. The ability to recognize and
overcome barriers, the skills to develop personal integrity and the knowledge
to troubleshoot their own road through life gives the Narconon student a new
found sense of life and the staying power to remain drug and alcohol free.
The Narconon
Method
Phase
I
A.) A Drug Free
Withdrawl
During the
"Drug-Free" Withdrawal stage, a
Withdrawal Specialist administers to the client, who is trained in different
techniques to help the person cope with the withdrawal period. These techniques
involve the use of a Vitamin regime supplemented with amino acids and minerals.
During this stage " assists" are also incorporated to help get the
individual oriented with his/her environment, to get them in communication with
the body's natural healing processes and to deliver the person from the
constant obsession to use that is common in the withdrawing drug addict.
B.) Communications
Course
When an addict first begins to
recover from their condition, they are withdrawn, have a low ability to
confront and are generally incapable of dealing with the honest realities of
life itself. When not able to escape with the " apparent solution" that
drugs and alcohol seemed to provide, their ability to communicate is severely
hindered.
To teach the recovering person to
begin communicating on a basic level, we teach them eight training routines
(TRs), enabling them to become less introverted and able to communicate with
their peers.
C.) New Life Detoxification
Program
During this step of Phase I the
client undergoes a precise schedule of vitamin and mineral supplementation,
exercise and daily time in our sauna facility. This is the second stage in
successfully withdrawing the client from drugs and alcohol. This process helps
the client to sweat out the drug residuals and metabolites stored in the body's
fatty tissue. This, as discussed earlier, is absolutely vital in the successful
long-term rehabilitation of the client.
Phase
II
Here the client first, "learns
to learn". Then, furthers the earlier communication skills learned in the
"Phase I TR's" and goes through "Objective Exercises" that bring
the person into contact with the present and able to overcome living in the
downfalls of their past or fanciful dreams of the future. These steps are outlined below:
A.) The Learning Improvement
Course
Addicts and alcoholics are
typically incapable of retaining information and applying that information to
life. This step gives the client awareness to the barriers of study and a
solution in overcoming them, so that they may retain, comprehend and apply
knowledge. During this step we see clients not only become more able, but also
more willing to learn.
B.) The Communicationa and
Perceptions Course
Reality is basically falsified to
the addict or alcoholic. The addict or alcoholic tends to fabricate their own
reality and when the drugs wear off they feel their reality has been shattered.
To reestablish the facade they must use again and again, perpetuating the cycle
of addiction. During this step we teach the client to communicate and perceive
their environment as it is. The client learns to be in control of themselves
and the environment and helps them to establish an upgraded sense of
responsibility by working on these (TR's) and "Objective Exercises" with
another client in the same phase of the program.
Phase III
This is perhaps the most intensive
phase of the Narconon program. Here we get the client to look at their
associations, past behaviors, what they have done to address these in the past
and how to address them and repair them now in the present. There are
four stages to this phase:
A.) The Ups and Downs in Life
Course
The lifestyle of a drug addict is
filled with negative associations and influences. These perpetuate the addicts
use of drugs and alcohol. This leads the addict to live in congruence with and
to participate in antisocial behaviors. The client here learns to identify and
avoid antisocial activities and people as well as learning to identify the
social personality and attune themselves with these associations.
B.) The Personal Values and Integrity
Course
To survive as a recovering addict
one must learn a new way of life. Whereas the recovering addict once had
depended on lies, thievery, mayhem and distrust to survive, they must
reevaluate their moral condition and make some very necessary changes in order
to continue to stay off drugs and alcohol. This course teaches the value of
honesty, integrity and the basic moral principles that perpetuate the goodness
of society and differentiates basic right and wrong. Until the addict can learn
these they will be continually plagued by an inability to cope, unhealthy
relationships, hostility, instability and repeated failures in life.
c.) The Changing Conditions in
Life Course
After the client has evaluated
their past behaviors, during this stage they begin to repair and improve the
conditions resultant from these. The client begins to prove to themselves and
others that they have within their ability to function as a trustworthy and
contributing member of society. They learn how one behavior effects another and
how one condition creates an effect that rolls through every facet of their
life.
D.) The Way to Happines
Course
The addict here learns to adhere
and abide by twenty-one common points of morality prevalent in all the world.
Through the fog of addiction they have ceased to see the value in living by a
simple, common moral code of conduct. These points of morality teach the client
to become productive, secure and virtuous. As the client sees the "why"
of these morals they find that it is necessary to adhere to them as best as
possible in order to live a drug-free life.
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