Narconon Arrowhead Celebrates 4300th Graduate

Drug addiction isn’t going away in America. It’s a big problem, and it needs big solutions if we’re going to do something about it. Narconon Arrowhead is a drug and alcohol rehabilitation center that is doing something big about drug addiction by having had its 4300^th student recently graduated from the center.

Opened in 2001, Narconon Arrowhead was dedicated to a big goal. Not only was it going to help individual addicts to overcome addiction and change their own lives, the center was going to change the entire face of rehabilitation treatment in this country.

That goal was set because rehabs have been operating on a failing basis in this country for too long. The very idea of rehab can have a bad name, as many people think of it as just something for rich people to do after they get in trouble for drunk driving. Not very many people think that rehab can actually be effective on an addict’s first attempt.

With thousands of graduates who can attest to their drug-free lives, Narconon Arrowhead is changing the entire discussion on addiction and rehabilitation treatment in America

A Fundamental Difference in Approach

The reason that the Narconon program achieves the results it does is because old, unsuccessful methods aren’t applied to modern problems. For example, one common refrain in the world of addiction rehab centers is that addiction is a disease. This is often cited by unsuccessful centers as a reason for their failures in getting addicts clean. When a patient relapses, they say that addiction is a tough disease to beat.

Narconon Arrowhead’s countless sober graduates would beg to disagree. Addiction is not an incurable disease, and that is one of the key principles that help addicts to start taking control of their own lives. When someone uses drugs, he is deciding to start using drugs. Even after dependence has set in and the person’s body is giving him biological commands to continue using, that person still has some choice as to what to do about.

In order for an addict to get clean, the first step is to decide to stop using drugs. Instead of calling addiction a disease that we have no control over, addicts have to admit that they can have control over it if they want to make any progress.

Thorough Detoxification

A key part of the Narconon program is the fact that it helps addicts to actually detoxify from their years of drug abuse. Most other rehab centers feel that just being off of drugs for a few days is detox enough when this simply isn’t the case.

Traces of drugs stay in an addict’s system for years after he stops using, and these traces have to be handled if that user wants to get free of the urge to continue using drugs in the future. Narconon addresses this issue through a revolutionary detoxification program that helps the addict actually sweat these traces out of his body through the use of a dry-heat sauna.

As over 4000 graduates can explain, the process works. It helps addicts to actually feel awake for the first time since they started using drugs, and it provides the basis for further study and treatment that puts these patients back in control of their lives so they can go out and start living without drugs.

With this milestone, Narconon Arrowhead is committed to helping thousands more addicts to get off drugs and to rejoin the world of happy, healthy and sober Americans.