The
Narconon First Step Program is a drug-free approach to
withdrawal. It is a program designed to help an
individual come off drugs without experiencing the
wretched withdrawal symptoms that often set in while a
person is kicking a drug habit.
In the Narconon First Step
program, alcohol and other drug addicts come in
voluntarily to an educational, hands-on workshop,
accompanied by a sober, supportive family member or
friend. In a one or two day format, these addicts learn
about and start immediately using specific nutritional
supplements, communication exercises, and other
self-help assists to radically diminish the discomforts
of physically withdrawing from drugs of abuse. Then,
still on a voluntary basis, at home and calling in
daily, or daily coming in to some designated place,
these persons step down off their addictions at whatever
gradient is workable for them, with the support of their
help-mate or family member.
The program is made up of four parts,
each developed by L. Ron Hubbard, which have been found
extremely successful in getting a person off drugs in a
relatively pain-free manner. These four components work
together to help an addict successfully and as
painlessly as possible withdraw from drugs.
- Nutrition, including
vitamin and mineral supplements, is the first
component of the program. It has been found that
continued use of drugs can speed up the burning of
reserves of vitamins in one's system and can leave the
person with severe deficiencies. These lost nutrients
must be replaced during withdrawal or the person will
continue to experience the discomforts brought about
by these deficiencies. Considerable research into the
field of nutrition and vitamin supplements has found
them to be of great benefit in replenishing the body
of lost nutrients vital to maintaining normal body
functions and to ease the pain of withdrawal.
- The program also makes
use of "Assists". Assists are easily done procedures
that can be applied by anyone to help a person recover
more rapidly from accidents, mild illnesses or upsets.
This is the second component of the program. The
assists used are designed to help prevent or lessen
any muscle spasms, cramps or pain the person
experiences during withdrawal and help to lessen his
predisposition to remain in an intolerable
condition.
- The third component of
the program consists of light "objective" procedures
designed to help the person look outward and get in
communication with the environment around him.
Objective procedures are exercises done to help bring
a person into the present by getting him to locate
things in his environment. They direct a person's
attention from inward on himself, his past experiences
or even his current physical or emotional pain, to
outward to the environment where he is right now. By
getting the person to look outward, these exercises
ease withdrawal and make it possible for the person to
successfully come off drugs.
- The fourth part of the
program is the communication skills taught in Book 2.
When one can both listen to another's ideas (even if
they are difficult to understand), and also
express one's own ideas well enough to be
understood--that's communication. It's a good thing,
and essential to getting and staying off drugs.
Whether delivered from a
doctor's clinic or office, a community center run by a
church or other social betterment group, or even by a
private individual, results so far have shown that a
remarkably high percentage of drug-using, addicted
students who participate in this seminar format workshop
succeed in withdrawing to zero consumption, usually
within 30 days.
The Narconon First Step
program, which can be taught in a workshop, can also be
obtained, learned and applied from the First Step
booklets. written
materials.
For more information and
training in the Narconon First Step program, contact Narconon Idaho or a Narconon center
near
you. |
