Posts Tagged ‘Drug Rehabilitation’

Destruction of Billions of Dollars of Marijuana Fails to Protect Americans from the Threat of Addiction

Monday, August 16th, 2010

In Sequoia National Park, where stately and ancient sequoia trees penetrate the mountaintop mists, law enforcement personnel rappelled in from helicopters or hiked in from roads to search and destroy extensive marijuana farms.

In operations running through July, hundreds of state, county and federal agents swept through three counties to locate the sophisticated plantations. When it was all over, they had eradicated $1.7 billion worth of marijuana plants and harvested product. They had also arrested 97 people, most of them Mexican nationals.

The Fresno County Sheriff tied the marijuana farms to Mexican drug trafficking organizations. Drug cartels have apparently developed these farms so they can get their products to market without having to cross international or state lines.

In the most common pattern, impoverished Mexican nationals are coerced or intimidated into acting as growers in remote regions of the Central Valley foothills or public lands in Washington, Oregon or Idaho. Diverting natural streams for irrigation and spreading toxic fertilizers, these workers tend their crops and guard the valuable plants with guns and booby traps.

What may be even more shocking is that this is not even an isolated incident. In 2009, a similar operation destroyed $1.6 billion in plants and finished product in Fresno County alone.

“Drug cartels are after profit and power,” comments Clark Carr, president of Narconon International, worldwide network of drug rehabilitation and prevention centers. “American drug users’ appetite for marijuana and other Mexican-produced drugs provide the largest demand worldwide. Although attempted and forceful interdiction of the drug trafficking by law enforcement agencies is one important tool to hold back the waves of drugs coming across our borders, drug demand reduction efforts must parallel or, ideally, exceed interdiction. As law enforcement develops better means of detection or interdiction, the cartels shift their operations to keep bringing product to a U.S. market that will pay for it.”

“Nothing effective can be done about demand reduction, many say,” states Carr. “There are even those who claim that marijuana is not addictive. That is a lie. More than a quarter million Americans entered drug rehabilitation facilities in 2007 to get help for addiction to this drug.”

“Emphasizing and providing proven, effective drug rehabilitation and drug education is essential,” continues Carr. “Narconon® drug and alcohol rehabilitation centers around the U.S. and the world provide these services to thousands of addicts and hundreds of thousands of children. Along with the drug demand efforts of so many other organizations, we must demonstrate to national, state, and city governments that the demand for drugs can be reduced. And then farmers can go back to growing food instead of poison for a hungry world.”"

The Narconon drug treatment program takes addicts through eight phases of recovery, from a drug-free withdrawal and a thorough, sauna-based cleansing of drug residuals from the body onward through life skills training in personal integrity and morals. The result is that seven out of ten Narconon graduates are still clean and sober when contacted two years or later after they complete.

Narconon drug prevention, education and rehab centers exist in over 40 countries. For more information call 1 800 775-8750 or visit www.narconon.org

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Securing successful drug rehab isn’t an option when a family member is hooked. It is a necessity!

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

When someone in your family is taking a dangerous drug, your role is no longer support of drug prevention efforts. You need to act fast.

A recent daunting report from NIDA (National Institute on Drug Abuse), estimates that abuse and addiction still cost the American public upwards of half a trillion dollars a year.  Despite reported success with drug prevention, which has dropped the drug use by young adults from 19.4 percent in 2001 to 14.9 percent in 2006, many families still have to face the need to seek intervention to help a loved one.

Drugs do destroy people’s lives, figuratively and literally.  Take the Southern California wife of a talented musician.  She experienced the death of her husband in front of her eyes from a cocaine overdose.  She knew he had a serious cocaine addiction, but she did not act quite fast enough.  More tragic, at the time of his death, her husband was on the verge of going into a drug rehab program.

Ultimately, if the problem is substance abuse, the only answer is getting the addict into rehab before tragedy strikes.  If this is your situation, your only thought must be to get the addict to stop taking drugs before it is too late.

There are two questions left unanswered that can delay many intended interventions: Can anything really be done to end the drug cravings?  And will my loved one reject my help?

The simple answer to the first question is Yes.  If someone you know is addicted to drugs or alcohol, introduce them to the Narconon® program It has a 40 year track record handling addicts’ cravings for drugs so they can live lives free of urges to revert.     

To answer the second one, there is this.  Every wife, husband, parent needs to know that when addicts can begin to believe that life could be drug free, even if there are still doubts, most will try for it.          

It may seem only drugs are important to an addict.  But look closer – there is a life to be lived that is flickering.  Getting your son or daughter or other family member to a truly successful drug rehab program will resuscitate that life.  There are four decades of families who know this is true, because they have seen it for themselves. Don’t wait until it is too late.

Thousands of people have successfully completed Narconon’s drug rehabilitation program and, unlike many other alcohol and drug treatment methods, the vast majority of graduates go on to live stable, ethical, productive, drug-free lives.

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Narconon Costa Rica opens in Central America

Thursday, December 10th, 2009

On Sunday December 6, 2009 Narconon Heredia in Costa Rica celebrated the grand opening of their new center.

Guests at the Costa Rica center opening

Guests at the Costa Rica center opening

Narconon center in Costa Rica

Narconon center in Costa Rica

The Executive Director, Roxana Aguirre, opened the event with a warm welcome to all of the guests and special thanks to all those who assisted in making this new center possible.

Many people were instrumental in the opening of this center by providing donations, office equipment, the new sauna, as well as many hours of volunteer work. They were all presented with a commendation for their help.

This was followed by a presentation from the Executive Director of Narconon Latin America, Charles Tennison, who spoke about the unique methods of the Narconon® program which has a very high success rate. He then presented a special commendation to the board member and founder of this center, Didier Rodriguez.

Executive Director of Latin America and Founder of Costa Rica center

Executive Director of Latin America and Founder of Costa Rica center

For the finale, the ribbon was cut with an enthusiastic applause from the guests.

Narconon Costa Rica center Opening

Narconon Costa Rica center Opening

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Celebrating the Narconon Program’s 43rd Anniversary

Thursday, February 19th, 2009

Celebrating the Narconon Programs 43rd Anniversary

Celebrating the Narconon Program's 43rd Anniversary

February 19, 2009

The Narconon® program: saving lives for 43 years today!

On this date in 1966, Narconon founder William “Willie” Benitez, Arizona State Prison inmate, convinced prison officials to give him permission to start the first Narconon program inside the prison walls.

So on our 43rd anniversary, Narconon International would like to acknowledge all the dedicated staff who have worked in our drug rehabilitation and prevention centers, all of our volunteers and contributors who have supported our work, and the tens of thousands of graduates who have successfully kicked their habit and give hope to others that a drug-free life is possible.

Narconon Arrowheads Oklahoma State Proclamation

Narconon Arrowhead's Oklahoma State Proclamation

In celebration of Narconon’s 43rd anniversary, Governor Brad Henry officially proclaimed February 19, 2009 as Narconon Arrowhead Day in Oklahoma for their continuing service to the community.

At this website page, Narconon history, you will find the opening chapter of the Narconon story; a story which has unfolded for the past 43 years. The Narconon network has expanded to 44 countries around the world, with over 125 drug rehabilitation and prevention centers and groups saving lives every day.

© 2009. Narconon International. All Rights Reserved.

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New Rehab Centers Meet Growing Demand for Narconon Services

Wednesday, February 18th, 2009

Narconon South Lake Tahoe drug rehabilitation center

Narconon South Lake Tahoe drug rehabilitation center

Results breed demand and Narconon’s expansion in 2008 is a testament to the growing demand for Narconon’s results. A few of our new drug rehabilitation centers, opened in 2008, include:

Narconon South Texas

Narconon South Texas

In the US, Narconon Vista Bay’s sister rehab facility near beautiful Lake Tahoe, California. Narconon Colorado drug rehabilitation facility in Fort Collins. And the new, bilingual, Narconon South Texas, serving both English and Hispanic students was welcomed to the area by Texas state legislators and local Mayors at its grand opening.

St. Petersburg, Russia

St. Petersburg, Russia

In Canada, Vancouver’s Narconon Eagles Nest rehab center now serves the far west. While across the globe and further north, Narconon St. Petersburg began its successful detox for Russians.

Every new Narconon® increases the numbers we can help overcome addiction for good. See the complete list of the more than 120 Narconon drug rehabilitation and drug prevention centers across the world at www.narconon.org.

© 2009 Narconon International. All Rights Reserved.

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