This is part two of an article explaining in depth certain aspects of the Narconon Program. Narconon is a long term individualized treatment center with a seventy-six percent success rate. Narconon is not a twelve step program. It is a self-cognitive therapy based program that is not dual diagnosis. There are many Narconon drug rehabs centers located through out the world.

Narconon is one of the most successful drug rehabs in the world. To date, it has helped thousands get off drugs and stay off. Narconon has a unique approach to addiction and is one of the only programs that approach addiction in this unique way.

Addiction; Approached as a Disability Rather Than a Disease

Narconon does not agree with the disease concept of addiction. It approaches addiction as a lack of coping abilities for life instead. What is meant by this is, addicts usually are people who do no have the abilities and tools to succeed in life. They usually are not able to communicate properly and they often have difficulties accurately spotting and solving problems.

Because of this lack of abilities, the person often makes poor decisions in life. They often know somewhere inside of them that what they are doing is not the correct thing, but sometimes they do not know what else to do. As a result of poor decision making skills the person may end up really making a mess of their life. Once this happens, the person does not usually have the ability to fix these problems. They start to feel bad about the situation and they then find an outlet of relief from getting high.

There is other lack of abilities that a person may use drugs to compensate for. One of these is often communication. A person may feel nervous when talking to other people and they may use drugs as way to feel more confident. That is one of the reasons that Narconon puts such a heavy focus on helping an addict improve their communication skills as stated in the first part of this article.

Helping Addicts Take Responsibility

In other traditional rehabs addicts are labeled as having a disease. This can sometimes hinder the person from taking responsibility for the condition that that they have put their lives in due to the decisions that they have made. They can tell themselves, as well as others, that they are not really responsible for the things that they did due to their addiction, they have a disease and they cannot help it.

Narconon teaches the person to take responsibility for their past actions and embrace the fact that ultimately they are responsible for their life and the decisions and actions they make. This can often be very hard for the person to face in the moment, but once they do they will enjoy a freedom that has probably eluded them for a long time. A person who has the ability to control their own actions and decisions does not need others to police them.

Once the person really takes a look at the things that they have done and accepts the fact that these things happened as a result of themselves, they come to realize that these are things that they will not ever do again because their conscience is working again. They get to the point where they know they will feel good naturally when they do things that are right and good and they will feel bad when they are doing things that are wrong. They will get to the point where they only want to do the right thing because that is the only thing they will feel comfortable with.

Narconon; the Antisocial and Social Personality

Once the person is committed to living life in a moral and sound way they are going to feel uncomfortable around people who do not live that way as well. Narconon also has course that teaches the recovering addict the difference between the social and anti-social personality. Often before the person learned these tools they would hang around with anyone that was doing drugs. They would be so high and so unable to observe personality traits that it would not really matter what kind of person they were around just so long as that person helped them to get drugs or would do drugs with them.

Show me your friends and I will show you your future. The fact of the matter is that people are heavily influenced by the type of people they are hanging around. If so and so does that it must be ok. Once the person learns the difference between the people who are good and have good sound morals and the people who do not and once they take a look at their own unmoral actions that they have committed, the person has the ability to make friends that will actually help them.

They will be more attracted to people who have a strong ethics sense because they themselves will. They will feel uncomfortable in the presence of someone who does not want to do the right thing and they will be repelled by that person. Who one associates with is a very important part of success in life. In one surrounds themselves with successful good people they will tend be better and more successful because of it. It goes the other way as well.

Narconon and the Way to Happiness

The last course that the person does in Narconon program is called the Way to Happiness. It is a book that teaches the person morals and helps them understand why having a good moral foundation is so important. It puts the information in a very easy to see in relation to life kind of way that makes sense. The person is able to actually observe in their own life why life goes better if one does the right thing. This course one could say, is similar to the Ten Commandments, but it is not religious so someone from any faith can make use of it.

All in all, the goal of Narconon is to help a person become a moral and contributing member of society who can be trusted and respected, as opposed to being a drug addict.