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The Narconon First Step Program
The Narconon First Step Program is exactly what it is named-a "first step". The
first step, of course, is to get off the drugs, to stop using them.
The Narconon drug rehabilitation program uses a totally drug-free method of
withdrawal (we don`t substitute one drug to get off another). This can also be
learned and followed by someone who desires to come off drugs on their own,
with the help of another.
The Narconon First Step Program is a drug-free approach to withdrawal. It is a
program designed to help an individual come off drugs without experiencing the
wretched withdrawal symptoms that often set in while a person is kicking a drug
habit.
In the Narconon First Step program, alcohol and other drug addicts come in
voluntarily to an educational, hands-on workshop, accompanied by a sober,
supportive family member or friend. In a two day format, these addicts learn
about and start immediately using specific nutritional supplements,
communication exercises, and other self-help assists to radically diminish the
discomforts of physically withdrawing from drugs of abuse. Then, still on a
voluntary basis, at home and calling in daily, these persons step down off
their addictions at whatever gradient is workable for them, with the support of
their help-mate or family member.
The program is made up of four parts, each developed by L. Ron Hubbard, which
have been found extremely successful in getting a person off drugs in a
relatively pain-free manner. These four components work together to help an
addict successfully and as painlessly as possible withdraw from drugs.
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Nutrition, including vitamin and mineral supplements, is the first component of
the program. It has been found that continued use of drugs can speed up the
burning of reserves of vitamins in one's system and can leave the person with
severe deficiencies. These lost nutrients must be replaced during withdrawal or
the person will continue to experience the discomforts brought about by these
deficiencies. Considerable research into the field of nutrition and vitamin
supplements has found them to be of great benefit in replenishing the body of
lost nutrients vital to maintaining normal body functions and to ease the pain
of withdrawal.
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The program also makes use of "Assists". Assists are easily done procedures
that can be applied by anyone to help a person recover more rapidly from
accidents, mild illnesses or upsets. This is the second component of the
program. The assists used are designed to help prevent or lessen any muscle
spasms, cramps or pain the person experiences during withdrawal and help to
lessen his predisposition to remain in an intolerable condition.
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component of the program consists of light "objective" procedures designed to
help the person look outward and get in communication with the environment
around him. Objective procedures are exercises done to help bring a person into
the present by getting him to locate things in his environment. They direct a
person's attention from inward on himself, his past experiences or even his
current physical or emotional pain, to outward to the environment where he is
right now. By getting the person to look outward, these exercises ease
withdrawal and make it possible for the person to successfully come off drugs.
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The fourth part of the program is the communication skills taught in Book 2.
When one can both listen to another's ideas (even if they are difficult to
understand), and also express one's own ideas well enough to be
understood--that's communication. It's a good thing, and essential to getting
and staying off drugs.
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At Narconon Edmonton we deliver First Step workshops. Results so far have shown
that a remarkably high percentage of drug-using, addicted students who
participate in this seminar format workshop succeed in withdrawing to zero
consumption, usually within 30 days.
For more information please contact us.
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