NARCONON ADDRESSES CORE OF DRUG ADDICTION

The problems of drugs and addiction are not new. In fact, they have been
around for many centuries, long before we had the Food and Drug
Administration, the Drug Enforcement Agency, the American Medical
Association or the multibillion-dollar-per-year industry of
pharmaceuticals. However, even with these watchful and protective agencies,
the problem of drug addiction appears to be worse than ever before, so much
to the point that many people have gone into complete apathy over the
subject of "the war on drugs."

The time line of the problem seems to have escalated when alcoholism and
drug addiction were labeled a disease some 50 years ago, and complicated
through ever-increasing types of diagnoses, and the new medications to go
with them as the latest treatment. Not only are millions of people told
that it's not their fault, but many are given another drug to treat some of
the symptoms from their addiction - such as an anti-anxiety,
anti-depressant or anti-psychotic medication - which only complicates the
problem even more and makes the person less capable of being himself again.

This has become such the norm that any person or program attempting to
rehabilitate an individual using simple approaches and getting the person
to take responsibility for his condition is actually thought of as weird,
or is scrutinized by who that have created the current mainstream idea of
treatment.

Although there may be many contributing factors, the problem started with
the person's decision to take a drug to solve a problem. Therefore the
solution is for the person to recognize that fact and then decide to take
responsibility for it, which may include using helpful tools to assist them
in the process of becoming drug-free, such as a true rehabilitation
program. One set of tools is part of the Narconon drug rehabilitation and
education program (www.stopaddiction.com), which is based on discoveries by
American author and humanitarian L. Ron Hubbard, and achieves an incredibly
high success rate for ending addiction. Thankfully, the program is not
considered traditional treatment with new drugs and diagnoses, but an
opportunity for a person to once again be free from the downward spiral of
addiction.

In today's society an individual ought to be able to think and find out for
himself. Our country was founded on freedoms and individual rights and
rebelled against those who tried to impose or enforce ideas and customs
upon us. Why should it be different with drug addiction?

Luke Catton, president Narconon Arrowhead Canadian, Okl