Pubdate: Sat, 17 May 2003
Source: Waukesha Freeman (WI)
Copyright: 2003 The Waukesha Freeman
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Author: Luke Catton, president Narconon Arrowhead Canadian

NARCONON ADDRESSES CORE OF DRUG ADDICTION

The problems of drugs and addiction are not new. In fact, they have been 
around for many centuries, long before we had the Food and Drug 
Administration, the Drug Enforcement Agency, the American Medical 
Association or the multibillion-dollar-per-year industry of 
pharmaceuticals. However, even with these watchful and protective agencies, 
the problem of drug addiction appears to be worse than ever before, so much 
to the point that many people have gone into complete apathy over the 
subject of "the war on drugs."

The time line of the problem seems to have escalated when alcoholism and 
drug addiction were labeled a disease some 50 years ago, and complicated 
through ever-increasing types of diagnoses, and the new medications to go 
with them as the latest treatment. Not only are millions of people told 
that it's not their fault, but many are given another drug to treat some of 
the symptoms from their addiction - such as an anti-anxiety, 
anti-depressant or anti-psychotic medication - which only complicates the 
problem even more and makes the person less capable of being himself again.

This has become such the norm that any person or program attempting to 
rehabilitate an individual using simple approaches and getting the person 
to take responsibility for his condition is actually thought of as weird, 
or is scrutinized by who that have created the current mainstream idea of 
treatment.

Although there may be many contributing factors, the problem started with 
the person's decision to take a drug to solve a problem. Therefore the 
solution is for the person to recognize that fact and then decide to take 
responsibility for it, which may include using helpful tools to assist them 
in the process of becoming drug-free, such as a true rehabilitation 
program. One set of tools is part of the Narconon drug rehabilitation and 
education program (www.stopaddiction.com), which is based on discoveries by 
American author and humanitarian L. Ron Hubbard, and achieves an incredibly 
high success rate for ending addiction. Thankfully, the program is not 
considered traditional treatment with new drugs and diagnoses, but an 
opportunity for a person to once again be free from the downward spiral of 
addiction.

In today's society an individual ought to be able to think and find out for 
himself. Our country was founded on freedoms and individual rights and 
rebelled against those who tried to impose or enforce ideas and customs 
upon us. Why should it be different with drug addiction?

Luke Catton, president Narconon Arrowhead Canadian, Okl
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