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A Life Shaped by Challenge, Purpose, and the Drive to Help Others

There’s something incredibly meaningful about helping someone else overcome addiction while you’re doing the same. When you come from a place of hopelessness, that shared experience becomes a source of strength and inspiration.

DRUG REHABILITATION

How to Help Someone Struggling with Addiction Get Help

Do you know someone struggling with addiction or someone watching a loved one spiral out of control due to drugs or alcohol? Or maybe you want to learn how to help someone who has an addiction get onto the Narconon Program? You can make a difference and...

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Taking Responsibility for My Life

I went from being a productive member of society with a family and a good job to living in an abandoned house, begging and stealing every day. Fortunately, my mother and my son’s grandmother stuck with me. My ex-girlfriend’s brother had earlier had...

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From Addiction to Saving Lives: One Narconon Graduate’s Journey to Becoming an EMT

Today, my life is completely different. I’m sober, doing well in school, and building a career where I can help others every day. If sharing my story helps even one person choose recovery, then everything I went through will have meant something. If...

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How I Overcame Drugs and Found Purpose

There is no price you can put on freedom from drug addiction. Being involved as a volunteer or staff member is the best support you can have. It is incredibly satisfying to go to bed at night knowing, without a doubt, that you made a difference.

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Narconon Program Overview: Ustinya’s Experience as a Graduate and Her Drug-Free Recovery

Hello. My name is Ustinya, and I am a graduate of the Narconon program. I graduated my program in 2020. Today I want to answer the question, "What's the difference between Narconon and any other rehab program that you may have heard of?"

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10 Years Drug-Free: How Narconon Helped Me Shift My Focus from Drugs to Success

I have been clean for 10 years now, have my own house and a successful mold restoration business, and am soon to be married. I have no desire to do drugs ever again.

NEWSROOM

Narconon Community Celebrates 60 Years of Drug-Free Lives

Celebrating 60 years of its effective and lifesaving drug rehabilitation program, Narconon International hosted a panel of its graduates for an inspiring discussion before an audience of recent and long-term graduates, family, and friends.

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Narconon: Finding My Real Self and a Purpose to Help Others

I found my real self. I found it was not all about me and what I could get out of it. My real purpose is to help others and I have been doing that ever since I did the Narconon program. I surrounded myself with a support group of individuals who help each...

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A Mother’s Call, A Son’s New Life: How Narconon Rebuilt My Family

My relationships with my family and kids have been repaired. I am married now to the woman I had lost and we had another baby that is now 14 months old. I have peace of mind and I enjoy life and being able to live it the way it was meant to be lived.

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My Life Was Saved 50 Years Ago—Now It’s Time To Help Save Others

Narconon gives one the tools to handle the problems they had before drugs, the problems they created while on drugs, and the tools to live life without drugs. That is why I continue to stand behind it and do everything I can to save lives.

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How I Restored My Self-Respect with Narconon

I got back my self-respect and I am doing well in life, with my own business, a daughter and great relationships with my family. I still apply what I learned on the Narconon program.

NEWSROOM

Remembering Nicky Hopkins: Perivale Celebrates Its Legendary Session Musician

Nicky Hopkins, one of rock’s most influential session pianists, is honored in his hometown of Perivale with a dedicated piano room. Known for his work with The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, and many others, Hopkins played a defining role in some of rock’s...

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Narconon Cocaine Rehab Reviews – Cara’s Experience Overcoming Cocaine Addiction

The tools just innately handled everything, so I’ve never had an inkling to go back to use. This is not a process of recovering. This is a process of, I’m done. And you now live your life as “I’m not a drinker,” “I don’t do drugs,” and...

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I Am Probably the Happiest Person in the World

After graduating the Narconon program in 2006 my girlfriend and I got married and we are still together and have a great marriage. I have my own very successful business. I enjoy every bit of my life and try every day to enjoy it a bit more.

STATISTICS & TRENDS

The Ongoing Meth Epidemic in Rural Oklahoma

“Everything is not OK in OK.” Read the powerful story of Mike and Joan, a couple who moved to rural Oklahoma for a fresh start only to face the harsh reality of a community struggling with arson, theft, and the heartbreaking toll of meth addiction.

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Two Decades of Freedom: Life After 30 Years in Hell

I started the program July 4th, 2004 and I have been sober since. This was a very fitting date — I consider that by going to Arrowhead and doing the program, I had claimed my independence from drugs.

NEWSROOM

Nicky Hopkins – Rock and Roll’s Greatest Session Man

A musical genius, inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Nicky was born in England in 1944, legend has it, during one of the air raids at that time. A musical prodigy from an early age, Nicky received a scholarship at the Royal Academy of Music of...

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Get Off Drugs, Get Back to Work, and Have a Normal Life

My goal was to get off drugs, get back to work, and have a normal life. I even started lining up jobs while I was still on the program. Since completing the Narconon program I have accomplished all of these things. I got married, got my contractor’s...

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The Narconon Program Was Exactly What I Needed

I went into the program wanting to handle my addiction, not be in trouble anymore, and to be a productive member of society, and I achieved those goals.