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Danielle in Success Story
June 24, 2025

Celebrating 30 Years of Sobriety as a Narconon Graduate

People using drugs are not being themselves, they’re not being who they really are—they don’t want to be addicts. The Narconon program works. It’s not about managing addiction; it’s about ending it. The New Life Detox and the training drills are powerful life-saving tools for long-term survival in the real world.

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Danielle in Success Story
June 9, 2025

Narconon Marijuana and Alcohol Rehab Reviews – Khallid’s Experience Overcoming Addiction

You know, Narconon is amazing. Of course, it’s on a good piece of land. But it also, like I said, it just gives people a safe place, and it’s provided a safe place for me in order to be able to plot out the rest of my future. And so I think that was the best decision that I’ve ever made and it set me up for the rest of my life.

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Danielle in Success Story
June 5, 2025

Why I Chose to Fight Addiction with Narconon—as a Mother and Parenting Coach

If you're considering becoming involved with Narconon, I, from the bottom of my heart, encourage you to do so. This program works. People struggling with addiction often don’t have the tools, support, or knowledge to help themselves. They’re trapped—and they need people like us.

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Danielle in Success Story
May 20, 2025

Narconon Heroin Rehab Reviews – Craig’s Experience Overcoming Heroin Addiction

I feel like I’m a better person now from going through that struggle, and then Narconon taught me how to be a better person on the outside.

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Editorial Staff in Success Story
January 30, 2025

16 Years Sober: David’s Story

Today, I am proud to say I have over 16 years of sobriety. I am happily married to my beautiful wife, and we share a wonderful daughter. My family means everything to me, and I am grateful every day for their unwavering support. My mother, brother, and sister stood by me through the darkest times, and I wouldn’t be where I am without them.

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Karen in National News
November 28, 2024

California Struggles with Increasing Fentanyl-Methamphetamine Overdoses

California faces a surge in overdoses from combined fentanyl and methamphetamine use, marking the “fourth wave of the opioid crisis.” With cartels targeting the state and polydrug abuse on the rise, more than ten thousand lives are lost each year, highlighting the urgent need for prevention and recovery efforts.

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Ren in Drug-Related News
October 31, 2021

Carfentanil; A New Drug in America that’s 100 Times More Potent than Fentanyl

Carfentanil has made the news from time to time over the past few years, but not usually in a way that sparks mass concern from authorities and communities. Sadly, the most recent headline on carfentanil suggests that traffickers are appropriating this drug for mass distribution. That’s definitely something to be concerned about.

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Karen in Addiction
September 19, 2021

Drug Use and Addiction: The Financial Burden to Communities and Individuals

Anyone who has loved an addicted person knows: Addiction comes with enormous costs. Some of these costs are emotional and mental. The addicted person suffers from the overwhelming compulsion to use drugs and the physical sickness and deterioration that accompanies the use of alcohol and drugs like heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine.

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Ren in Drug-Related News
September 3, 2019

Opiate Addiction and Cocaine—How the Two Are Connected

U.S. News ran a story on August 8th, 2019 titled, “Lethal Deception: Deaths From Cocaine Laced With Fentanyl on the Rise.” The article talked about how cocaine misuse is on its way up and how that has had a direct effect on increasing drug-overdose deaths.

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Karen in Prescription drug abuse
August 23, 2018

In California, A Coroner’s Letter Changes How Doctors Prescribe Opioids

It seems like a small thing, just letters from a county coroner to 388 California medical doctors, telling them that one of their patients died from a prescription drug overdose. But this simple step subsequently reduced the number of opioid prescriptions handed out by these doctors. Overcoming our opioid epidemic is going to take many of these small steps.

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