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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When an addict first begins to recover from their condition, they are withdrawn, have a low ability to confront and are generally incapable of dealing with the honest realities of life itself.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.