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Narconon Joins Recovery Month Celebrations

Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

With a message of lasting recovery, Narconon® drug rehabilitation programs throughout the country participate in the annual observance of National Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery Month in September.

(Los Angeles, CA) - Now in it’s 21st year, the theme for this year’s National Recovery Month is “Now More than Ever,” and Narconon centers coast to coast are gearing up for the annual celebration along with other treatment programs and recovery advocates across America.

The Narconon drug rehabilitation and education program was founded more than four decades ago and now has at least 16 residential and outpatient treatment facilities in the United States and Canada alone, with dozens more worldwide. Again this year thousands of Narconon staff members, program participants, alumni, family members and supporters will continue their observance of Recovery Month with its recurring theme that permanent recovery from addiction is not only possible, but happens every day in its centers.

Past events have included community sponsorships and anniversary celebrations, educational presentations, radio shows talking about recovery, public service announcements for print and broadcast media and even a live webcast of a graduation ceremony.

One of the topics this year has been the devastation caused by the skyrocketing prescription drug addiction problems throughout America. From painkillers to tranquilizers and amphetamines, the latest surge in substance abuse has opened the eyes of millions of people. Showing that dependency and addiction can affect anyone, including unsuspecting patients taking such medications.

Narconon is one of the few programs in the country that does not prescribe more drugs to addicts seeking treatment, and it’s drug-free rehabilitation approach achieves a success rate of better than 70%. The program was was founded by William Benitez and is based on the research and developments of the late American author and humanitarian L. Ron Hubbard.

For more information about Narconon visit www.narconon.org or call 1 800-775-8750. To learn more about National Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery Month and to find events in your area check out www.recoverymonth.gov.

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Survey Shows Increase in Treatment for Benzo Addictions

Thursday, June 10th, 2010

National survey reports a 32 percent rise in treatment admissions over a five-year period where tranquilizers were the primary drug of abuse

The devastation of prescription drug addiction is no longer a secret.  From painkillers and stimulants to sedatives and tranquilizers, millions of people are becoming addicted to prescriptions, whether they were first taken as prescribed or not.

The last category of tranquilizers includes drugs called benzodiazepines (benzos), which include brand name prescriptions such as Xanax, Ativan, Klonopin and Valium.  Simultaneous with many of these drugs having been and still being used in some addiction treatment methods, benzos have become one of the most heavily abused prescriptions on the streets today.

Results from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS) show that tranquilizers were the primary addiction for about 8,100 people admitted for treatment in 2003.  The number of admissions for tranquilizers jumped to more than 10,700 by 2007, an increase of 32 percent.

Many treatment professionals consider an addiction to benzodiazepines to be one of the more difficult to handle, especially the potentially deadly withdrawal symptoms. It has also been reported that benzos have a "post-withdrawal" effect where persons completely lose touch with reality as their bodies and minds try to adjust to not having the drug.

Something can be done about it. Narconon® drug rehabilitation programs have a component that addresses chronic effects associated with toxic drug residuals. Called the New Life Detoxification Program, this exercise, nutrition, and intensive sweating program has been documented to reduce the body burden of a wide band of toxins. It is the result of the rehabilitation research and developments by late American author and humanitarian L. Ron Hubbard.  Program participants have reported after completion that they "the drugs are no longer talking to them," that they are able to think more clearly. The purpose is to help addicts in recovery to address the reasons underlying why they turned to drugs as solutions in the first place, a formidable task when they had been living, so to speak, in a toxic waste dump.

To find out more information about the Narconon program or to get help for a loved one battling addiction to benzodiazepines or other drugs, visit Narconon International’s website at www.narconon.org or call 1 800-468-6933

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Rehabilitation for Opiate Addiction Without Maintenance Drugs

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

The Narconon program provides successful drug-free rehabilitation for people addicted to heroin, oxycodone and other opiates without putting them on methadone or buprenorphine.

Los Angeles, CA - According to recent survey information from the Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS), more than 350,000 people throughout the country entered some form of treatment or rehabilitation program listing an opiate as their primary drug. Opiate addiction has been a major problem in America for decades. The main difference has been what type of opiate, such as morphine, heroin, oxycodone, hydrocodone or other synthetic drugs. Over the years there has also been a push by the pharmaceutical industry to get opiate addicts onto their replacement drugs such as methadone, and more recently, buprenorphine.

Opiate addiction comes with very heavy withdrawal symptoms, and so many addicts are drawn to the idea of not having to experience them by taking a legalized substitute that feeds their bodies’ dependency, but hopefully with less behavioral consequences. It’s a genius sales tactic that has generated billions of dollars for the drug industry and methadone clinics, many of which are for-profit corporations instead of non-profit treatment centers.

The National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Servicess (N-SSATS) showed that on the day of the last survey there were more than 260,000 Americans who were being given methadone as a substitute drug. While methadone clinics made up just about ten percent of the total treatment facilities, they had the highest average number of clients to accumulate more than 22 percent of all people receiving services for substance abuse. In addition, more than one-third of programs that prescribed methadone didn’t even offer detoxification - they were strictly dispensaries for maintenance drugs.

Methadone has drawn more scrutiny in recent years with an alarming increase in the number of overdoses and related deaths. Some states are seeking to regulate the drug and its clinics, such as a bill in West Virginia that proposes methadone treatment centers to report and track take-home doses of the drugs. Others are just now seeing the social problems attached to the drug, such as police officers in Maine who reported a number of automobile accidents caused by methadone patients nodding off at the wheel while driving.

While the long-term maintenance plan for methadone is to eventually wean off it over an approximate 18-month time period, the majority of methadone addicts actually increase their dosages due to further tolerance and wind up going into detox and rehabilitation programs after all.

One program that has offered drug-free rehabilitation methods for opiate addicts for decades is the Narconon program, which is based on research and developments by the late American author and humanitarian, L. Ron Hubbard. Rather than putting heroin and other opiate addicts on replacement drugs or having them withdraw completely “cold turkey,” the Narconon program uses nutritional and light physical therapies to help ease withdrawal symptoms in their social detoxification.

The rest of the program includes a body cleansing process to rid the drug residues called the New Life Detoxification Program, which helps to eliminate physical cravings for the drug and rehabilitate mental clarity for the education, counseling and life skills portion of the treatment.

Narconon has over 140 groups and centers in dozens of countries throughout the world, with many facilities from coast to coast in the United States. The overall success of the program in returning people to becoming responsible, ethical and productive citizens has led to continued growth, which is spearheaded by the Narconon International office in Los Angeles.

For more information about this life-saving drug-free rehabilitation program or to get help for a loved one in need, visit www.narconon.org today.

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Drug-free programmes are more effective than drug substitutes

Wednesday, February 11th, 2009

Many residential treatment centres worldwide including UK’s Narconon Hastings are sticking to the drug-free route rather than cheaper, but meritless heroin blockers. The goal is recovery, not ‘maintenance.’

“I tried methadone. I tried Subutex. I tried Valium. Neither solved my addiction and they were much harder to come off,” says Michelle, a graduate of the Narconon Hastings programme. “I never bought into the message of ‘learning to live with my addiction,’ taking my daily substitute drug. I wanted to be off drugs. I wanted my life back so I could be a part of my family once again and be worthwhile and valued as a person to myself and others. Only a real, intensive residential programme, like Narconon, can help you achieve that.”

Michelle is not the only person who feels this way. Even Professor Neil McKeganey, Director of Glasgow’s Centre for Drug Misuse, was quoted recently describing the national trend towards drug substitution as “a shameful dereliction of our responsibility…we failed the majority of drug users by keeping them locked into addiction.”

But residential treatment is so much more expensive, some argue back. Really? A University of Glasgow study recently found a 7X better chance to be drug free 3 years after residential rehab than methadone. Many addicts who have enrolled with Narconon report that they did other illicit drugs at the same time they were doing methadone or other substitutes. The drug solves nothing between the ears, they say. It chemically blocks opiate cravings, but that is not the cause of the addiction – that’s only the painful result.

It appears that in the last 15 months 15 out of 100 drug rehabilitation centres have closed in UK. This is because they were dependent on government subsidy. Those rehab centres that are supporting themselves charging fees for service are surviving, if with financial difficulty, because they are filling a real need.

Narconon Hastings, for example, is part of the international Narconon network which has produced over 27,000 drug-free graduates over the last decade. They have always set stably drug-free as their target objective – not living with your addiction, but freedom from. Recent post-programme monitoring of graduates by US Narconon centres, according to www.drugbulletin.org, reports that after a one-year follow up, better than 70% remained drug-free.

So there is good news. UK citizens and tax payers should ask for nothing less. Loved ones’ lives and our communities’ welfare are at stake.

For further information on Narconon Hastings and the Narconon programme, visit www.narconon.org or call (44) 1424 420 036.

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