Drug Rehab News

Feb 07
NARCONON’S VIEW ON YOUTH VIOLENCE

Unfortunately, Narconon sees both sides of bullying.   Often those who bully are drug abusers and some who have been bullied resort to drugs as an attempt to alleviate the emotional and sometimes physical discomfort associated with being attacked.  Attacks can…

Feb 07
NARCONON HAS A QUESTION

Narconon is asking; how so many prescription medications are winding up in the wrong hands? According to this article in the Journal Star, for many, marijuana is no longer a gateway drug.  People are starting out on the hard stuff…

Feb 03
Interpertation of New Sentencing Laws in New York

NARCONON IS WATCHING
Narconon is watching and so is the world, as the fate of five Columbia University students, recently prosecuted for dealing, will be determined by interpretation of new sentencing laws in New York.  Will recent new drug laws…

Feb 03
Keep Your Brain Power

NARCONON SAYS KEEP YOUR BRAIN POWER
Just through an interview process at Narconon it becomes obvious that a person on drugs has lost some of their ability to think.  Perhaps the mumbling, stopped sentences and general memory lapses are not…

Feb 01
NARCONON PROMOTES DRUG FREE APPROACH

Narconon promotes results oriented treatment and apparently new performance measures have been released for medications used to help people end dependence on opiates and alcohol.  This- according to a recent article in Join Together.
A real test would be how…

Feb 01
President Obama’s recent show hosted on You Tube

Narconon applauds President Obama’s recent show hosted on You Tube.  According to Join Together, Obama addressed the nation’s youth through You Tube, letting them know that he recognizes drug addiction as a problem whose scope extends beyond incarceration, arrests, etc.…

Jan 31
NARCONON’S VIEW ON MEXICAN AMERICAN TEEN DRUG ABUSE

Anyone working at Narconon has come to learn that a lot of drug abuse starts with simple peer pressure.  Survey of our clients show that many of them started using drugs because they were told by a friend that it…

Jan 31
NARCONON REVIEWS EMERGENCY ROOM STATS

According to this article in Join Together, recently reviewed by Narconon, twice as many people are going to the emergency room because of prescription drug abuse as there were five years ago.  In fact, for the third year in a…

Jan 31
NARCONON REVIEWS THE NECESSITY FOR “ALTERED BRAINS”

Do we really have to change someone’s brain to help them stop smoking?  Narconon at least thinks that this is a question worth asking.
According to research, described in the following Join Together article, drugs used to help individuals stop…

Jan 28
NARCONON ACKNOWLEDGES NEW JERSEY

Narconon of Georgia has always been a big proponent of alternatives to incarceration for offenders who are addicts.   So when we hear that New Jersey is proposing early release from prison for “offenders with addiction disorders” we are in complete…