Narconon staff prepare
graduating students with "re-entry" programs to follow
as they re-start their lives on a new foot. But the full
Narconon program is intended to produce graduates who
can stand on their own feet and live drug-free, ethical
lives thereafter. A Narconon graduate does not go to
weekly meetings for months after completion, nor does he
describe himself as "recovering."
A student who has graduated
from the Narconon program has recovered. He or she has
obtained a new orientation in life. The premise of the
Narconon model is that a former addict can achieve a new
life. This goal applies (and is routinely achieved)
whether the program is delivered in a free-standing
center, daily after work, or even in prison.
Once well, if he uses the
tools he has practiced and learned to use at a Narconon
center, a Narconon graduate can stay well. This is not
theoretical. There are three decades of graduates who
will swear by it.
If graduates do run into
serious difficulties, they return to their Narconon
center where they inevitably find a specific part of the
program that they earlier failed to fully understand and
therefore could not apply in the travails of daily life.
But the majority get it the first time through.
The Narconon program takes
four to six months. During this time, some might
consider the Narconon program a "therapeutic community,"
but it would be more appropriate to say that Narconon
clients are going "back to school"-this time to get real
tools for real life.
"The addict
has been found not to want to be an addict, but is
driven by pain and environmental hopelessness...As soon
as an addict can feel healthier and more competent
mentally and physically without drugs than he does on
drugs, he ceases to require drugs."
L. Ron
Hubbard
A Narconon Program Graduate
is someone
- Who has completed the
Narconon program;
- Who knows he is, in fact,
capable of living a drug-free life thereafter;
- Who has improved his or
her ability to learn and thus can accept new ideas on
how to change life for the better;
- Who has personally
absorbed the fundamentals of ethics and morality well
enough that he or she can be productive and
contributive to society and will have no further
troubles with the justice system;
- Who knows how to solve
the problems of life in a rational manner to the best
of his ability, without the use of mind-altering
drugs.
Each narconon program
graduate is expected, no matter the severity of his or
her earlier life experience, to achieve and to live a
stably drug-free, ethical life, one for one.
There is no such thing as a
"victim" in the Narconon program way of thinking. Even
if life has dealt one a bad hand of cards, the road out
is through personal recognition of responsibility for
one's own condition.
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