Narconon Arrowhead Honored for Providing Drug Rehabilitation Technology to Children and Professionals

Anyone who faces the substance abuse problem knows that simply providing rehabilitation services – even excellent rehabilitation services – is not enough to deal with the extent of the substance abuse and addiction problem. It takes providing services on many different fronts, including drug education for children and professionals.

That’s why Narconon Arrowhead drug and alcohol rehabilitation center in Canadian, Oklahoma strives to distribute as much of its successful drug education curriculum as possible, as broadly as possible.

Narconon Arrowhead’s drug education presenter is John Bitinas, a graduate of the rehabilitation program. In the twelve months leading up to March 2009, John taught more than 65,000 children throughout Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas and Arkansas the Narconon curriculum proven to reduce drug abuse. In April, John was honored as the top drug education presenter in the worldwide Narconon network at a national meeting of the network’s executives held in San Diego.

Also in April, the Narconon Arrowhead center was honored by the Oklahoma State Regents for their collaboration with Eastern Oklahoma State College. In 2007, the college and Narconon worked together to develop courses to share Narconon’s successful drug rehab program with other drug abuse prevention professionals and counselors. Cooperative efforts between the two led to course material being submitted and approved by several Oklahoma certifying agencies. These courses have been successfully offered at two- to three-month intervals since their approval.

“Narconon Arrowhead is dedicated to reducing substance abuse problems,” stated Gary Smith, Executive Director of the facility. “For more than 40 years, we have had a rehabilitation program that results in a 70 percent success rate. Our drug education curriculum has been proven to reduce drug use, based on surveys of students who receive the curriculum compared to those who do not. We are proud to work with our community organizations and schools to continue to battle this problem until we achieve a world free from addiction and substance abuse. Collaborative efforts like these enable groups to work together to bring about this brighter future.”

For more information on Narconon’s drug education curriculum or training for professionals, please visit the Narconon Arrowhead website at http://www.stopaddiction.com/ or call 1-800-468-6933. The Narconon program was founded in 1966 by William Benitez in Arizona State prison, and is based on the humanitarian works of L. Ron Hubbard. In more than 80 centers around the world, Narconon programs restore drug and alcohol abusers and addicts to a clean and sober lifestyle.