Narconon (meaning “no drugs”) is a secular drug rehabilitation and education programme that utilises the drug handling technology developed by L. Ron Hubbard with highly effective results. It is an autonomous charitable programme independent of Scientology churches, supported by Scientologists around the world who volunteer their time and talents. The Narconon programme accepts people of all races and creeds.
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Another aspect of drug education critical to preventing abuse is to provide children and students the opportunity to hear directly from individuals with firsthand experience in overcoming drug abuse, or from professional drug counsellors. Such drug education lectures are an integral part of the community service programmes offered by Narconon, with these volunteers delivering “Truth About Drugs” lectures to students of all ages through 80 drug education centres around the world.
This popular programme has reached more than 2.5 million children with the truth about drugs. Narconon’s drug prevention specialists take a unique approach in their lectures: Rather than using “scare tactics” that have yielded indifferent results, Narconon’s speakers help students achieve their own understanding of the damage drugs can do to an individual. As a result, students who attend these lectures are far less likely to get started on drugs.
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In one study of 1,045 students who received Narconon drug education, 86% of those who had considered the possibility of using drugs in the future said they had changed their minds. And 42% of those who had previously supported drug use reported they no longer did.
In Italy, Narconon is registered as a drug training and education institution, licensed to train drug education counsellors throughout the country. And the Ministry of Education of Lombardy Region has endorsed the Narconon Drug Education programme for youth.
In Kharkov, Ukraine, a Narconon drug education specialist personally educated over 200,000 children and adults throughout the region and received over 200 official recognitions and acknowledgments from school directors and government officials for her lectures.
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Narconon Drug Education centres in the Commonwealth of Independent States delivered lectures to over 170,000 people in 2003. Their groups span from St. Petersburg to Pavlodar, Kazakhstan and Kransnoyarsk, Siberia.
In July 2003, a Narconon team conducted drug education training workshops to over 40 members of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency at their national training centre in Manila. The team also delivered workshops to doctors and rehabilitation specialists and lectured to inmates at the Quezon City Jail and the government-run Bicutan Residential Centre.
In the United States, Narconon drug education teams in Massachusetts, California and Oklahoma educate thousands of students every week on the truth about drugs and drug abuse.
