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May 19, 2009

Board Certified Family Physician Drug Rehab Success Story

“It is with sincere appreciation and gratitude that I write this success story. I am a Board Certified family physician practicing in Texas. I developed a progressively worsening, socially disabling depression and had turned to alcohol. I have many certificates and diplomas on my walls at home and the Narconon Louisiana one was the most difficult one for me to earn.

“Of course when I got here I wondered ‘what IS this place?!’ I was discouraged and unhappy and wanted to leave so many times, especially in the first half of my program. However, I stuck with it and finished. I am especially grateful for the staff for taking me on as their project and working on me. I was suspicious, but they were tenacious and I’m better off for it. I am going to leave here profoundly and positively changed. People are going to look at me and see a man who has really turned his life around. I have.

“I came here depressed and despondent with suicidal ideation. I was critical of others to an extreme and even more so to myself. I had such self loathing. However, I sustained many wins and gains and purged this nonsense from myself. I realize I am an amazing person, and more importantly, I am ok with it. I had wins throughout, but mainly in the latter stages of the program.

“I learned the way to happiness is honesty, with myself and others. I’m a good person. I live my life that way. I am good and everything else that matters falls into place. I no longer live my life to be validated by others because I have the insight and self awareness to validate myself. I don’t drink. I’m so excited. I now have the ability to confront and handle. I’m cause over my life, not effect of it and it feels great. Thank you for your perseverance and for believing in me and helping me to believe in myself.”
P.H.
Medical Doctor

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Drug Rehab Program Works!

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“Sometimes there are experiences in one’s life that are difficult to explain in words. This is such an experience.

“Upon my arrival at Narconon Louisiana I had certain expectations of what I was going to do, what I was going to accomplish, and what was going to change for me. I can’t say that my hopes have always been reached, and surpassed but I can about this program.

“I knew I wanted to get off of drugs but didn’t how to do it. This rehab program gave me the means to get myself clean and to say clean forever. When I figured out why I used drugs in the first place, I was blown away. Then, when I realized that I could get myself to a point where that reason no longer applied I was filled with hope.

“After that, things literally just started falling into place. I found what I want to do with my life. My family and friends are important to me again and I am back in communication with them. My ethics are in.

“I can not give enough praise to the staff. never have I met a group of such ethical uptone people who really care about the survival of others. I feel so honored to be given the opportunity to join that group.

“Narcnon Louisiana saved my life. I gave me hop, happiness and an inner peace I have never known. Thank you so much!”

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May 17, 2009

Questioning Drug Test Results

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Test Results To The Public Not Always Accurate

A recent study by the New England Journal of Medicine proves that pharmaceutical companies aren’t always giving you the whole story.

For years pharmaceutical companies have been all over the airwaves with solutions to your problems. One pill one or two times a day will handle your ADHD, BiPolar, Depression, Restless Leg Syndrome…the list goes on and on, but what if all the success stories we hear so much about weren’t the whole story?

A new study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine sheds some light on the unpublished side of things. It was found that pharmaceutical companies were telling us only half truths. “Selective publication of clinical trials – and the outcomes within those trials – can lead to unrealistic estimates of drug effectiveness and alter the apparent risk-benefit ratio.” explains the paper entitled Selective Publication of Antidepressant Trials and Its Influence on Apparent Efficacy. The paper goes on to say that “Among 74 FDA-registered studies, 31%, accounting for 3449 study participants, were not published…A total of 37 studies viewed by the FDA as having positive results were published; 1 study viewed as positive was not published. Studies viewed by the FDA as having negative or questionable results were, with 3 exceptions, either not published (22 studies) or published in a way that, in our opinion, conveyed a positive outcome (11 studies). According to the published literature, it appeared that 94% of the trials conducted were positive. By contrast, the FDA analysis showed that 51% were positive.”

A large group of people that are targeted by pharmaceutical companies are drug addicts. “The greatest disservice you can do to someone struggling with drug addiction is to give them another drug.” says Jeff Lukas, Executive Director of Narconon Louisiana a drug and alcohol rehabilitation facility in Denham Springs, Louisiana. Narconon Louisiana focuses on handling drug addiction naturally, without any prescription drugs. “Our mission is to get to the underlying problem of why the person started using drugs in the first place. Once that problem is isolated the person can handle it and confront life without the burden of addiction.” explains Lukas.

More and more people are starting to catch on to the skewed reporting by the pharmaceutical companies. NBC and FOX covered the story, warning people that they may have been misled. Although the allure of a “problem free” life is appealing, it is vital to recognize that some “solutions” only cover up the problem.

If you or anyone you know is struggling with addiction and in need of help please contact Jeff Lukas at 866-422-4650. You can also visit Narconon Louisiana on the web at www.drugabusesolution.com.

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Addiction – No Longer a Life-Long Disease

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Addiction – No Longer a Life-Long Disease

For over half a century doctors, psychiatrists and psychologists have been attempting to treat drug addicts. Addiction has been labeled as a disease – a burden that has to be carried for the rest of an addict’s life. As William Benitez, founder of Narconon a drug and alcohol rehabilitation facility said, “After 19 years of trying, probed and picked at by psychiatrists, and psychologists, everybody was evaluating for me, telling me what my problems were…I noticed that all of us [addicts] in prison were in the same boat. We didn’t know what the problem was.”

Benitez searched for years to come up with an answer to that problem. It wasn’t until he was in prison on another drug charge that he finally came across a workable solution. While reading a book found in the prison library by American author and humanitarian L. Ron Hubbard, Benitez read about improving on your own abilities! With this bit of workable ideology, Willie realized he could help himself and others who were struggling with addiction behind the prison walls.

He decided to start the first Narconon program in the Arizona State Penitentiary, which was formed in 1966. A program that became so successful that an Arizona State Prison staff report, signed August 13, 1972, states that 75% of the Arizona Narconon program students were drug-free one year after release.

Today, the Narconon program still uses the same premise to handle addiction and as a result stably maintains a 75% success rate for permanent sobriety. The program has grown to more than 120 centers in 44 countries including a premier center, Narconon Riverbend Retreat, in Louisiana. “The key to being successful,” says Jeff Lukas, Executive Director of Narconon Riverbend, “is that we allow and encourage the person to change. We focus on their abilities and rehabilitate them to their true selves. People respond to the idea that they are not diseased. They recognize that they weren’t always like this and they can change.”

If you or anyone you know is looking for an effective drug rehabilitation program that raises the abilities of the individual, contact Jeff Lukas at 866-422-4650 or log onto www.drugabusesolution.com. The Narconon program proudly uses the technology of American author and humanitarian L. Ron Hubbard.

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May 15, 2009

Finding Solutions to Drug Abuse

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Welcome to the Drug Abuse Rehab Solution blog. We are dedicated to helping people find permanent solutions to overcoming addiction through successful rehabilitation practices. Be sure to check back for more articles, stories and other postings.

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