Does Your Drug Rehab Program Focus on Life Skills?

There are all kinds of drug rehab programs in the world. Some have widespread popularity and others are isolated to just a few rehab centers. Like wilderness programs. You can find this type of rehab program with fair ease, but they are not widespread. Equine programs – ones that incorporate care and riding of horses – are a little more common. Some programs don’t focus on this modality of treatment but might include some involvement with horses.

There are therapies based on electric shocks, hallucinogenic drugs, group therapy, individual counseling, dream interpretation – the list of options is very long.

In the Narconon program, a major focus is on building life skills.

In our history of over fifty years, we have seen clearly that those who become addicted lose their life skills. Drug or alcohol addiction robs a person of many skills he had before he was addicted, and a person who became a heavy drug user early never developed them. The person may get clean in rehab but unless he gains the skills to make a drug-free decision every time he faces a serious challenge, he may turn back toward drug use at these critical times.

Near the end of our drug rehab program, there is a life skills course called the Changing Conditions in Life Course. On this course, each person learns how to determine exactly how well or how poorly they are functioning in any area of life. Are arguments with the spouse increasing or are the agreements between them building more strength and harmony? Is the job improving, with more trust and more income and more responsibility? Or have a few recent mistakes tarnished the person’s reputation as an employee?

Included in these skills are the precise steps to take when you simply don’t know which path to take, or when you’ve taken the wrong path and want to work your way back to trust.

Once these lessons are learned, each person going through our rehab program gets to put them to use to repair parts of his (or her) life that have been damaged by the past addiction. As these areas improve, it’s common for the person to start to feel relief and greater peace of mind. Many times, relationships with family improve during this time.

After a person returns home from the Narconon program, tools like these and many others provide stability. He knows how to examine his own life and behavior so he can bring about an improvement. This can save the day if a “slip” occurs – in other words if the person makes the mistake of indulging in alcohol or drugs again. He has the skills to get his life on the right path again.

As one of our graduates told us, “Going through the program, learning the life skills and figuring out how to handle life gave me the ability to really live my life and handle things without escaping or running away and using drugs. I was finally in control of my self and my life.”

Contact us to learn more about the Narconon program.