For over half a century doctors, psychiatrists and psychologists have been attempting to treat drug addicts. Addiction has been labeled as a disease – a burden that has to be carried for the rest of an addict’s life. As William Benitez, founder of Narconon a drug and alcohol rehabilitation facility said, “After 19 years of trying, probed and picked at by psychiatrists, and psychologists, everybody was evaluating for me, telling me what my problems were…I noticed that all of us [addicts] in prison were in the same boat. We didn’t know what the problem was.”
Benitez searched for years to come up with an answer to that problem. It wasn’t until he was in prison on another drug charge that he finally came across a workable solution. While reading a book found in the prison library by American author and humanitarian L. Ron Hubbard, Benitez read about improving on your own abilities! With this bit of workable ideology, Willie realized he could help himself and others who were struggling with addiction behind the prison walls.
He decided to start the first Narconon program in the Arizona State Penitentiary, which was formed in 1966. A program that became so successful that an Arizona State Prison staff report, signed August 13, 1972, states that 75% of the Arizona Narconon program students were drug-free one year after release.
Today, the Narconon program still uses the same premise to handle addiction and as a result stably maintains a 75% success rate for permanent sobriety. The program has grown to more than 120 centers in 44 countries including a premier center, Narconon Riverbend Retreat, in Louisiana. “The key to being successful,” says Jeff Lukas, Executive Director of Narconon Riverbend, “is that we allow and encourage the person to change. We focus on their abilities and rehabilitate them to their true selves. People respond to the idea that they are not diseased. They recognize that they weren’t always like this and they can change.”
If you or anyone you know is looking for an effective drug rehabilitation program that raises the abilities of the individual, contact Jeff Lukas at 866-422-4650 or log onto http://www.drugabusesolution.com/. The Narconon program proudly uses the technology of American author and humanitarian L. Ron Hubbard.
Contact: Jeff Lukas
