Drug Abuse - Something Can Be Done About It

There are over 200 million drug abusers today-- each a human being who desperately needs help.

Law enforcement personnel know the relationship between drug addiction and crime.

I saw in a post on http://davidmiscavige.blogsource.com/ yesterday that in the 1960's when street drugs were becoming epidemic in the US, L. Ron Hubbard did a great deal of research into the effects of drugs on the mind and spirit.

Finding that taking drugs is detrimental to spiritual progress, and that the effects of having taken drugs continues to prevent spiritual gain even years after a person has ceased to take them, L. Ron Hubbard developed technology that overcomes the effects of having taken drugs.

It seems that an inmate at the Arizona State Prison found a book by L. Ron Hubbard called Scientology: The Fundamentals of Thought. Using what he learned from that book, this inmate cured himself of long term drug addiction, and wrote to Mr. Hubbard to ask his permission to use this technology to help other inmates salvage their lives. He called this program Narconon, meaning "no narcotics".

I can see that Narconon is an extraordinary program that not only gets addicts off drugs, but does it without substituting another drug for the one they were on, and helps the person come to grips with what the actual source of the addiction was -- why they started taking drugs in the first place.

It's interesting to see what parents of Narconon graduates have to say:

"On the 28th of April 2000, we attended our son's graduation ceremony at Narconon. Our son's graduation event will forever be etched in our memory, as a rebirth of our child. It had been so many years since we had seen him drug or alcohol-free that we actually had a hard time recognizing him. He looked absolutely wonderful and his behavior was so accepting and calm. For years, we had wondered if we would ever see our "real" son again. We met so many people the evening of our son's graduation and we cannot remember all of their names, but we want to thank each person who took the time and effort to make a difference in our son's life. Your efforts are most likely the reason our son developed the will to change, as all other efforts that had been made through the years had not made a difference for him. You are truly the savers of life! We will never forget your faces or the wonderful things you are doing. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts."