Do you know anything about Narconon?

A genuine treatment it certainly is not:

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Narconon/studies.htm

This link analyzes the statistics narconon uses to claim success. The conclusion is that it doesn't work - many people, 77% in one study, leave before completion.

Their treatment is effectively "cold turkey" combined with a scientology "purification rundown" which largely involves saunas and vitamin supplements. It involves nothing to reduce the effects of drug withdraw. The withdraw symptoms of some especially hard drugs can be fatal.

more on narconon's safety: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Narconon/safety.htm

Narconon *is* a front group for scientology - a fact which is painfully obvious from their recycling of scientology doctrine. Scientology also funds narconon on an international level.

You don't need to stick your hand in a fire to know it's hot. In the same way, you don't need to try narconon to know it doesn't work.

Narconon is bogus. It's a front-group for Scientology which is primarily interested in getting money from desperate families and possibly recruiting people into the organization as well.

Not only is it a scam of a recruiting tool, but its methods are potentially quite dangerous, including saunas lasting up to 5 hours and vitamin megadoses well beyond toxic levels.

I went to narconon in Watsonville, California. Let me tell you, this place IS NOT a drug rehabilitation program. IT IS A SCAM. I was not once counseled or helped in any way. I came back worse than I was before I was sent to that horrible cult. They had us cleaning everyday and on Sundays we had "white glove cleaning" where a so-called supervisor would come in and inspect and if it wasn't done to their liking we would have to do it again. We were cut off from society. We were not allowed Internet, television, they would read your mail and every once in awhile if they thought any one of us were "out of ethics" they would come into your room and basically strip search it. They would open all your drawers, go through underwear, flip your mattresses and take anything that they deemed was "out of ethics". There is so much more to tell. DO NOT SEND YOUR LOVED ONES HERE. The only reason I stayed is because my parent paid $30,000 for me to be there. Email me if you want to know more.

Yes I know something about it. A couple of my friends work in Narconon. It rehabilitates several thousand addicts every year round the world and sponsors drug education programs to help keep kids off drugs.

But regardless of what anyone might say here, the only way to find out for sure is to go along and check it out. They have regular public graduation nights where you can talk to the graduates.

It is a genuine and very effective treatment for drug and alcohol addiction. This program was started in Arizona State prison in the late 1960's by an inmate named William Benitez (a long term heroin addict) who read a book from the prison library called "Fundementals of Thought" by L.Ron Hubbard. The knowledge he gained from the book helped him to handle his addiction and he wrote to Mr Hubbard asking for more information and help for his fellow inmates to change their lives. He stayed in prison despite early parole to set up the program for other inmates with the help he got from Mr Hubbard . He called it Narconon ( literally "No narcosis" ).

When he got out he set up the first outside facility with the help of

Scientology using L.Ron Hubbard's technology for drug and alcohol addiction in L.A.

He later became Inmate Liason Officer for Arizona State Prison.

Since that time the Narconon program has expanded and has many facilities in various parts of the world . It's success rate is well known.(around70%)

I myself worked with and ran a Narconon in Toronto for many years . Narconon doesn't just save lives it gives the addict a new life

free from addiction and free from the long term effects of drug and alcohol abuse. It is a non profit charitable secular organisation. It uses L.Ron Hubbard's technology for changing and improving lives affected by drug addiction and abuse.

Suggest you google Narconon Arrowhead which is the head facility (in Oklahoma) that also trains people from all over the world on establishing and running a Narconon Program. This site should give you much more info than you will get here on Y.A.

The International Association of Scientologists sponsored the establishment of the Narconon Arrowhead facility with funds donated by Scientologists. It also sponsors Narconon Drug Education Programs which operate in schools and other areas with youth as prevention, teaching the truth about drugs so kids can make informed decisions.

Scientologists consider that drugs are a major barrier to any major improvement in our societies and humanity in general.

To quote Mr Hubbard in his article called "Our Biochemical Society"

"Our planet has hit a barrier which prevents any widespread social progress- drugs and other biochemical substance.

These can put people into a condition which not only prohibits and destroys physical health but which can prevent any stable advancement in mental or spiritual well-being"