The Narconon First Step Program
The Narconon First Step Program is exactly what it is named—a “first step”. That first step is to get off the drugs, to stop using them.
The Narconon First Step Program is a drug-free approach to withdrawal. It’s designed to help you come off drugs without experiencing the wretched withdrawal symptoms that often set in while kicking a drug habit.
On-Site Workshops
The Narconon First Step workshops are hands-on educational workshops where you can learn about specific nutritional supplements, communication exercises, and other self-help assists to radically diminish the discomforts of physically withdrawing from drugs or alcohol.
You can attend the hands-on workshop on site at our facilities, accompanied by a sober, supportive family member or friend. This must be done voluntarily.
You learn how to assist the person to come off the drugs and get sober.
Home Study
You can also purchase our educational materials and learn how to do this on your own with the approval and assistance of a competent medical professional.
On a completely voluntary basis, people who attend these workshops or do the study at home, agree to step down off their addictions at whatever gradient is workable for them, with the support of their help-mate or family member.
Program Elements
The program was developed by L. Ron Hubbard. It consists of four parts and has been found extremely successful in getting a person off drugs in a relatively pain-free manner.
- Nutrition, including vitamin and mineral supplements, is the first component of the 1st step program. Continued use of drugs can speed up the burning of reserves of vitamins in one’s system and can create severe deficiencies. These lost nutrients must be replaced during withdrawal period since these deficiencies can bring about discomfort. Considerable research into the field of nutrition and vitamin supplements has found them to be of great benefit in replenishing the body of lost nutrients vital to maintaining normal body functions and to ease the pain of withdrawal.
- The 1st step program also makes use of “Assists”. Assists are easily done procedures that can be applied by anyone to help a person recover more rapidly from accidents, mild illnesses or upsets. This is the second component of the program. The assists used are designed to help prevent or lessen any muscle spasms, cramps or pain the person experiences during withdrawal and help to lessen his predisposition to remain in an intolerable condition.
- The third component of the 1st step program consists of light “objective” procedures designed to help the person look outward and get in communication with the environment around him. Objective procedures are exercises done to help bring a person into the present by getting him to locate things in his environment. They direct a person’s attention from inward on himself, his past experiences or even his current physical or emotional pain, outward to the environment where he is right now. By getting the person to look outward, these exercises ease withdrawal symptoms and make it possible for the person to successfully come off drugs.
- The fourth part of the 1st step program is the communication skills.. When one can both listen to another’s ideas (even if they are difficult to understand), and also express one’s own ideas well enough to be understood–that’s communication. It’s essential to getting and staying off drugs.
Results
Whether delivered from a doctor’s clinic or office, a community center run by a church or other social betterment group, results so far have shown that a remarkably high percentage of drug-using, addicted students who participate in this seminar format workshop succeed in withdrawing to zero consumption, usually within 30 days.
Numerous others, through individual study of the materials, have been able to successfully help a friend or loved one come off drugs.
Narconon graduates don't have to live one day at a time - they are fully recovered. Our addiction treatment program rids the body of drug residues, stops the cravings and addresses the reason why they took drugs in the first place.