Recovery Requires Learning how to Plan Ahead

What a Drug Rehab Should Have: Planning Ahead

If someone is engrossed in drug abuse, he has likely lost many of his skills and abilities. Driven by cravings, his life becomes focused on getting and taking more drugs to the exclusion of almost everything else. With this mindset, he can only plan how he is going to obtain more drugs. This is a change that affects all aspects of his life. Not only the ability to plan but many other skills are also left behind in this fog of drug abuse.

Planning for the Future Should be Part of Rehab

According to the World Health Organization’s guidelines, learning to plan ahead effectively should be a part of rehab. This is something everyone needs to learn to achieve goals in life. When one does not plan for the future, it is a hit-or-miss proposition if one will ever achieve his goals. It is probable that all goals are gone when addiction takes over. Learning or re-learning how to set goals and plan his future is essential to anyone’s success.

Narconon Rehabilitation Includes Learning to Plan for the Future

At Narconon drug and alcohol rehabilitation program centers, a person recovering from drug abuse learns many important skills to help focus on his future. These abilities are taken up in a series of life skills courses that are part of this comprehensive rehab program. One course teaches the fundamentals of personal values. The person in recovery learns to take responsibility for things he may have done in the past that he is not proud of. He learns how he can make up the damage he might have caused others while he was on drugs and then puts these lessons to work. This gives him a clearer outlook, unhindered by guilt over his past deeds.

With the tools he learns, he can begin to plan a bright and more productive future.

A Narconon student only graduates when he has a definite plan for a drug-free future life. Additionally, Narconon staff members follow up with each graduate for two years to ensure he is doing well and sticking to his plan. The result of the thorough Narconon program is that the large majority of graduates remain drug-free for the long haul.

Jason Went to Narconon and Refocused his Life

Jason was unable to get off drugs before starting on the Narconon program. The difference this time, Jason said, was that he received the tools that brought him out of the despair in which he’d found himself. At Narconon, he learned tools he needed to live a drug-free life.

In describing his experience at Narconon, Jason said it was really enjoyable, laid back and fun. After completing the full Narconon program, Jason said the program had “given me ME back. It’s like the little kid who used to enjoy going trick-or-treating with his sisters. It’s lightheartedness like you had when you were a kid, but feeling it as an adult.“ He said he feels a burst of energy every day, waking up, doing what he’s doing and feeling good about it.

Jason refocused his life and learned essential skills for planning ahead with the help of the rehab program at Narconon.

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Reference

Conclusions from a United Nations Inter-Agency Meeting, World Health Organization, Geneva, 1999.