| Most of us really don’t have a clue about drugs | | | | and over again. |
| and alcohol, except that they do bad things to us and | | | | “We have had people arrive at Narconon |
| our kids. All it takes is not knowing truth about what | | | | Arrowhead for treatment after ten or even twenty |
| drugs can do to your children. And, not knowing how | | | | times through other addiction treatment |
| to pass the truth about drugs on to them. You know | | | | programs,” said Derry Hallmark, Director of |
| your kids are pretty smart. They can make good | | | | Admissions and Certified Chemical Dependency |
| decisions about many things. | | | | Counselor. Narconon Arrowhead is one of the |
| The new national figures have just been released for | | | | country’s leading drug and alcohol rehabilitation |
| drug use and addiction for 2007 and the news is not | | | | centers in Canadian, Oklahoma. “The tragic thing |
| good. Nationally, nearly 20 million people (aged 12 and | | | | is that it’s not necessary to go through |
| older) used an illicit drug each month, and more than 23 | | | | treatment repeatedly if you get down to the bottom of |
| million were classifiable as needing treatment for | | | | the reasons for the addiction and address them |
| alcohol or drug abuse. Only 2.4 million people actually | | | | thoroughly. That’s what the Narconon program |
| got treatment leaving many millions in danger of losing | | | | is known for.” |
| their homes, their families, their health, their very lives. | | | | The Narconon program utilizes a dry-heat sauna and a |
| But anyone who has been around an addict knows | | | | strict nutritional regimen to flush out the residues that |
| this fact: the addict is not the only one suffering. The | | | | drugs leave behind that may be involved in cravings, |
| families, the employers, teachers and friends of the | | | | then employs counseling and life skills training to help a |
| addict suffer too. A survey done in 2004 showed that | | | | person recover their self-esteem and values that may |
| 63 percent of adults surveyed said that they had | | | | have been destroyed by drug use. |
| needed to grapple with the addiction of someone | | | | “We want people to know that there is a holistic |
| close to them, usually a family member. This means | | | | option for them, one that treats the whole person and |
| that in America, 142.5 million people struggled with | | | | that does not use drugs or psychotherapy,” |
| someone’s addiction. | | | | added Mr. Hallmark. “Graduates of the Narconon |
| For many of those who did receive treatment, | | | | program find drug-free success 70 percent of the |
| unfortunately, addiction rehab has a “revolving | | | | time, and we want to make that fact known to all the |
| door,” meaning that many of those who go | | | | family members and friends of those suffering from |
| through rehab often repeat their trips to rehab over | | | | drug or alcohol addiction. |