Phase I

Drug Free Withdrawal

Drugs such as heroin and alcohol normally come with a considerable amount of physical discomfort when an individual stops taking them. That is why Narconon® conducts a pre-medical evaluation and provides safe 24-hour care, making drug free withdrawal relatively pain free. For severe cases, a medically supervised detox is available to help ease any physical discomfort experienced while withdrawing from drugs or alcohol. Once released from the medical detox, the individual will continue with their drug free withdrawal process at the Narconon location. Each and every individual who enters the Narconon program will be watched over by detox specialists to help insure a relatively pain free withdrawal and to ensure all their emotional needs are met.

Narconon Colorado This phase of the program is designed to help the individual withdrawal from drugs without having to suffer the usual painful withdrawal symptoms. When an individual takes drugs and alcohol their body becomes depleted of vitamins and minerals. The Narconon program uses specific nutritional compounds to help rebuild the person physically. When a person is withdrawing from drugs and alcohol they are under supervision by a trained specialist at all times. This lasts until both the physical and mental pain completely goes away.

I am still alive! Even though it's only been 5 days, I'm OK and with no dope! The withdrawal process was remarkably mild. I have never successfully completed a withdrawal for some years. I could not deal with the withdrawal, the depression, and the long pain. That's why I was on methadone for so long. Now I am clean and looking forward to the sauna to complete the process. I don't want to get ahead of myself, but that is a goal that I think would really brighten my outlook on myself and my future. Thanks!.

-JP

Narconon Therapeutic TRs Course

The term "TR" stands for training routines. This course is specifically created to help individuals with communication skills. These drills are set up to help the student improve their ability to confront any situation they come across through communication. Individuals who have a problem with drugs or alcohol usually have a hard time communicating with those around them. They often find it hard to talk about subjects they view are unpleasant. Typically, when and addict is forced to confront sensitive issues they withdrawal from their friends and family. The TR course has eight different training routines to help with this problem. Students are extroverted by this therapeutic approach which helps them resolve problems with others easily.

The therapeutic training routines were amazing! I was at the tail end of withdrawing from heroin and was feeling sick and aching. I started doing the 2nd drill, which deals with confronting another person. After a while, all the sickness and aches disappeared. I realized at the end that most of my drug use was due to my inability to confront people and situations. I knew I could live without drugs at that point. something I didn't think was possible before doing this course.

-GS

New Life Detoxification Procedure

Narconon Colorado Sauna The New Life Detoxification Program was created in 1978 by Mr. Hubbard. This pioneering innovation uses intense sweating in a dry sauna in combined with lots of fluids and nutritional supplements. This process reduces drug residuals from the addict's body. Residues from drugs can remain in the body for years after they have been taken and it is important that they are removed. These residues can cause drug cravings and depression. This process is a vital step in the rehabilitation process.

The New Life Detoxification program removes the root cause of future physical re-stimulation. Many different types of drugs remain in the body long after the individual has consumed them. These different types of drugs include cocaine, heroin, valium, pcp, amphetamines, crank, crystal meth, methamphetamine, ecstasy, alcohol and medicinal drugs such as narcotic painkillers, tranquilizers, and sleeping pills. As time passes, the residues and metabolites of the above mentioned drugs stay in the fatty tissues of the user. If these residues and metabolites were to remain in the individual, it could hinder their ability to remain drug free once graduating the Narconon program.

The residues left behind from the drugs can cause the individual to experience drug cravings and depression. A key point in successful drug rehabilitation is flushing out the accumulated toxic residues. A protocol of medically supervised exercise in addition to periods of sweating in a dry sauna and nutritional supplements are utilized to rid the fatty tissues of the remaining drug residues. Often times, the results are extremely phenomenal. It leaves the individual with reduced drug cravings, and in many cases, without ANY cravings for drugs at all.

"I have acted as Medical Consultant to the Narconon program for 15 years. For the past decade, I have studied the results obtained with a detoxification method used by Narconon that utilizes vitamins, sauna baths, and exercise. While this detoxification method is strenuous, it is easily and safely accomplished under the supervision of trained personnel. Narconon students with histories of moderate to extremely heavy substance abuse show a marked improvement in alertness, clarity of thought, and general health by undergoing this treatment. Most report a substantial reduction in their craving for drugs or alcohol. Published scientific studies of the technique have shown it successful in reducing the variety of toxins and contaminants in the body tissues. I highly recommend its continued use as an effective tool in the treatment of addictions."

-Kathleen Kerr, M.D

Sauna.....WOW! I was in the box just shy of 70 days. There were times I thought no way can I do this anymore, but I did and I did it right. I have rushed everything for so long, this was truly the first beneficial action I did thoroughly in probably 10 years. It was worth every minute of it as well! I went into the sauna program a person who at times had difficulty remembering where I was and who I was. I now have years worth of memory back. I am even happy to have the bad ones back, because now I can handle it! Thanks to all of the staff and their hard work that goes into putting a person through this process! This is in my opinion the only real detox in existence. Thanks Guys!
S.C.

Phase II

Learning Improvement Course

Narconon Colorado The learning improvement course helps students with their ability to learn and comprehend knowledge that is presented to them. In addition, it helps them with overcoming problems they may have had regarding studying and learning. Students learn how to "clear" words from the dictionary, create realistic demonstrations of concepts, and to notice and take care of gradient difficulties. To summarize, this course helps the students learn how to make the Narconon course part of their daily lives as well as achieve success in any field of study.

In addition to the learning improvement course, Phase II incorporates tools to help the student achieve goals and regain their self-control. Students are guided through ways to snap out of traumatic events of the past which they may be stuck in. This course helps them increase their ability to handle such events in life.

Even after years of college, I never realized how inadequate my learning skills really were. This course illustrated to me that I still had a lot to learn about learning. I just wish I had these skills before I went to school, because I would have gotten much more out of it..

-CY

At first, this book seems easy, especially to a person like me who prides himself on his vast vocabulary and ability to write well. Ha!!! It took me over a week to plow through this book, mainly due to the first obstacle to learning: I THOUGHT I KNEW IT ALL. In fact, I began this book with the same crummy study habits I developed in grade school habits which saw me nearly flunk out of high school, drop out of college, and leave my horticultural training 8 months early. I have always given up and walked away when the going got rough in school, and consequently, in life. Book 3 is a sleeper. It contains information that is changing my life simply by giving me an effective way to learn new material. I am surprised and very pleased.
M.E.

The Communications and Perception Course

Narconon Colorado This course is multi-faceted in that it further develops the communication skills necessary to confront and overcome the day to day problems associated with living drug-free. It gives the student the ability to be comfortable and confident within ones self. Drugs are a way for people to escape reality and change the way they feel. When the individual is not on drugs they usually try to ignore or change their feelings. In turn, when the drugs wear off, they are left feeling introverted and worse than before they took the drugs. Also, experiences from their past stay with them, making them feel even worse. This course helps the student focus their attention on the present. At this point their perception of their environment improves as well as their communication with others. The Communications and Perception Course helps students become more "causative" over their lives and their surroundings instead of being affected by it.

Objective Exercises

Objective exercises are dynamic therapies that are original to the Narconon program. The purpose is to "un stick" the addict's attention from events and traumas that can cause them to be obsessed with the past.

Drugs act on a person's body as a painkiller making them numb to what is going on around them. An addict becomes unable, because of their drug abuse, to be comfortable with everyday emotions and experiences. Since the present is unbearable, they tend to dwell on past sorrows and upsets or to live in a fantasy world of the future. Since the individual is not living in the present mentally, they are unable to control their life. They cannot achieve their goals or have healthy relationships, and do not know how to handle responsibility.

Wow, this is the most awesome thing I have ever achieved. I am in control of how I react and what I do with my feelings. I am in the present time and I m no longer letting my past affect me in a negative way. I’m looking at things for what they really are and not for what they were or could be. Living in the present time gives me the control to make better decisions and more able to control my self. It’s okay not to know all the answers, I don’t need to be so hard on my self and what I am doing. I am not ashamed because I do not have anything to hide any more. I don’t have to lie to self destruct. Drugs just brought me down an held me back from my goals and dreams. I can do anything I want and that is a huge win. I am never going to give up what is true for me. I am a stronger person and I look at life in a better way.
K.A.

"Before I came to Narconon, I didn't have an objective viewpoint on anything. Drugs had clouded my ability to see things as they really were. All I saw when I looked at someone, even my own family, was someone I could get money from for drugs. The Communication and Perception course pulled me out of past bad experiences that were affecting my thinking and behavior. My past is a chapter that is now closed, and for the first time in 25 years I'm free to be and do what I choose..

-LD

Phase III

Ups and Downs in Life Course

This course gives the student the ability to confront all the underlying issues which caused them to begin their drug use, as well as their present problems. They learn to identify social and anti-social characteristics in others as well as themselves. This course makes them capable of recognizing situations that are potentially a source of trouble and their options when confronted with these situations. Students will also be provided with the experience necessary to handle real life situations. This is accomplished by placing them in simulated environments that they might come in contact with in the future.

Often, drug addicts and alcoholics are susceptible to negative influences. In this course, students learn the characteristics of social and anti-social personalities in order to evaluate objectively and choose those people in their lives who need to be avoided. Completing this course enables the individual to evaluate behavioral, constructive, and destructive characteristics. It also provides them with the appropriate methods to handling these people. This is a major part of being able to remain drug-free.

I feel is really a wonderful book. It really helped me take a good look at my life and at myself. It helped me to learn how to handle people and pick the right ones in my life. I feel so lucky and so much better now that I have had a chance to get everything that was built up in my life off of my chest, lifting so much weight out of me. I now know how to choose and get rid of people. It is so awesome to be able to really confront and take a look at my past life and see how I screwed it all up. To see the effects of everything and then be able to actually take cause over what I have done not only to myself but to my family and friends. I feel great. Thank you so much for all your guys’ help!
K.G.

This was the best book I have done so far at Narconon. I broke down my people, places and drugs and looked at how my drug use affected all of these things. I took responsibility for what I did and the hurt and damage I caused by using. I also looked at how I am going to make up that damage. I am now able to let the past be the past and move forward with my life now with a clean slate, a clear conscience and the ability to remain sober.
J.S.

So last week I was having a hard time confronting myself and I was trying to leave. But you guys, the staff that is, took the time to tell me to push through it, and I have! I learned that I can be afraid of change, but overcoming it and not fighting it is when it really pays off. And now I have confronted the things that I feel have kept me from true happiness in my life. Thanks Narconon!.
J.A.

Personal Values and Integrity Course

Addicts often find that through their addiction they loose their sense of personal integrity. This is because the life style that goes along with addiction is one that almost always involves lying to friends or family, and almost as often involves the commission of illegal acts. As time goes by many addicts find that they never lived any other way. Restoring personal integrity is not just a moral issue; it is a matter of survival. It is a fact that until one can confront and be honest about ones past, a person will be haunted by it. Until these types of misdeeds are dealt with, the addict will continue to be plagued with:

Unwillingness to communicate
Withdrawal from family and friends
Unhandled hostility toward those who try to help him or her
Feelings of resentment towards authority
A sense of being uncomfortable around ethical people
Inability to have stable relationships

There is even such a thing as a "drug personality". It is a fake personality that is created by drugs and alcohol. Choosing the wrong friends and acquaintances can become something that is destructive and difficult to handle. When an individual takes drug or alcohol it changes their personality to one that is secretly harboring hostilities and hatred that they did not want to show on the surface. An entire section of the Personal Values and Integrity Course has been developed to handle just this. It goes over how to choose and live with the type of people best suited for long-term survival. It covers how to develop and maintain these relationships, nurturing them to produce what truly is needed and wanted by the recovering addict.

This offers the student an opportunity to clear their conscience of past transgressions and elicit behavior by taking full responsibility for their actions. It provides the student with a code of honor to live by, stresses the importance of being honest in their lives, and the benefits of living in an ethical manner.

I feel very confidant in myself. I have drive and intention to work and get things done right the first time. I am happy with myself and with being here and I want to stay on here after I graduate. I am very comfortable with my life and content with the way things are going. I will be ethical and moral and have integrity. I know I am a good person inside. Book 6 has helped me realize that things aren’t that bad and that I can be happy for once. This book showed me things to do and not to do. I feel that I have learned so much. I completely understand and am applying what I have been studying. I will continue to improve more and more and will not go back to drugs or let people bring me down!
S.S.

This book really helped me focus on my effect on my life and the choices which we are faced with. I can see how alcohol hurt everything I held close and the things surrounding me. I cannot change the past but by owning up and taking cause over the things which I have done to hurt myself and the people I care about, I feel I have moved a great deal forward. Now, by facing these sometimes difficult and painful memories, I can be a positive role model for myself and others.
A.S.

The Personal Values and Integrity Course helps restore the student to their basic sense of right and wrong. It provides them the ability to live honestly again. Values and purposes are recovered and strengthened. Students often experience a strong feeling of relief, and a newfound sense of freedom and self-respect because of this course.

The Changing Conditions in Life Course

Difficult choices arise for everyone at some point in their life. For those who are addicted to drugs the difficult choices they make can be deadly.

This course gives students the exact formulas to evaluate objectively and improve conditions having to do with their self, their family, the groups they belong to, and other areas of life. They learn that any condition can be changed for the better as long as it is handled correctly. On this course, the student takes specific actions to repair the past and present conditions in their life. They are given the tools with which they can continue to improve conditions and situations in the future.

I had many realizations in this book, I realized how selfish I had been through out my addiction and how my exchange with my family as well as society was very one sided. I learned roadmaps (formulas) on how to get me out of problem situations as well as how to be able to become successful in life or any endeavors in which I chose. Most importantly I realized that I needed to make up damage to myself, my family and society on order to propel my sobriety. I had been to many rehabs before and like always I just “took” what they offered me and selfishly walked out the door and wondered why I failed. Before this program I had always been a taker and after learning and applying this book I realized that in order for me to rise in life I needed to give before I could receive. This book ties in all the prior books of this program and gave me a complete understanding of myself and for the first time in my life I feel confident about my future.
C.M.

The Way to Happiness Course

Wouldn't it be wonderful to be handed a "How to Live Life" manual? As nice as this would be, it is not the case. Most of us go through life by trial and error. The Way to Happiness Course helps introduce the student to common sense moral code that they can use in living a new drug and alcohol-free life.

I feel as if now I am truly on my way to happiness. I have many times in my life gone down the wrong road. The beautiful thing about traveling down the wrong road is that I now know what the wrong road is. My decisions before were influenced by others. I can now once again think for myself and choose the right path to go down in my life. This is a huge win for my self. A kind of bittersweet win, knowing that I am becoming stronger, but also knowing there are many out there in the world today that still need help. I wish everyone could feel as good as I do now, and I will continue feeling this way about myself.
Thank you sincerely.
M.E.

Phase IV

Phase IV of the Narconon program was created to insure that maximum gains were attained during each and every step of the program.

Final Program Review

This is comprised of two essential components tailored to meet the needs of each student.

1. A comprehensive review to ensure the student has thoroughly completed all phases of the program.

2. Creating a battle plan. This is a plan for the new life that the student is beginning upon their completion of the Narconon program. This plan incorporates the application of their entire program and the student customizes it for their life and personal goals. This plan must be agreed upon by the student and their case supervisor. The plan must be seen to have the maximum potential for the student's success.

This last step incorporates every step of the Narconon Drug Rehabilitation Program. It helps to ensure that the graduate will live a drug-free, productive, and ethical life. Although each action of the Narconon program produces significant gains, it is the combined effect of all these steps collectively which result in full and permanent recovery. Forty years have shown this to be true. Narconon can proudly claim, and has demonstrated with thousands of case histories, that addiction can be ended.

Follow-up Program

I. A comprehensive long-term follow-up program is designed and implemented to assist the student through the first year of their recovery. This is achieved by regular communication with the graduate and their family members. They monitor and address the graduates stability and progress after their graduation from the program. The student will receive special assistance in addressing these life issues so he or she may maintain a drug and alcohol-free life.

II. A follow-up program may include the student staying supervised, in an after care program, for an additional 6 months. Here, the student will be provided free room and board in staff housing where they will be supervised while they slowly and safely become accustomed to their new found life. They will take a slow gradient step into society while applying everything that they have learned. They will be given a job, job training, and a small stipend each week. They will live in the Narconon center where they can help others and work in an ethical, supervised environment and gain valuable experience that will help them through life. They will build self-confidence and self-esteem which are invaluable in preventing relapse.

The Success Story of Interns

Since the age of twelve, hard times were in my life and they were the fault of everyone else, or so I thought. I was a drug addict, who continually had legal trouble. I had no direction in my life, and no clue what my future held, and I was okay with that. It took a loss of unbelievable measures to point me in the right direction and even then I was easily diverted, to destruction and drugs. When my father died I knew that if I wasn't already dead, I wasn't supposed to be, and if that was the case the only way I was going to truly live was with help. Narconon gave me that help. They helped me rebuild my life to be the man my parents wanted me to be, the man I needed to be and they also gave me the ability to make up for the times that I wasn't the man I should have been. Now, with my father gone, Narconon has restored my willingness to carry his name, without fail, and be the best man I can be. The staff at Narconon Colorado, I owe my life too. I am now staff and loving what I do. My opportunities are endless. I as well as my family thank them endlessly.
L.Q.

I just wanted to say how grateful I am to be a part of the Narconon team. I think that it is most excellent to be able to continue my program but I’m also able to apply what knowledge that I have attained to my life as I progress through my life. My biggest win is that I now am helping others to obtain the same gains and wins that I have achieved so that they will progress themselves! I like that!
C.E.

Narconon has literally saved my life. I owe my life to this program. I know without a doubt that I will use the technology I learned here everyday and I realize I will have to. I have come to the realization that my life is totally worth living and I see beauty now I never saw before. I no longer loathe myself, I love myself and I want more than anything for others to feel what I feel at this moment. Thanks Narconon !
E.S.

The Narconon Program greatly improved my life. I have learned skills vital to my well being that I had lacked in the past which impaired my ability to be a productive member of society. I am no longer a hindrance to myself or my loved ones. I am a much happier person and have gained a newfound love and respect for myself. The Narconon Program gave me these things and much more. I am now a healthier & more clean person in body and mind. This program did so much for me In terms of improvement that I decided to stay with Narconon to work in order to help others achieve happier and more satisfied lives.
A.M.