Released on: January 20, 2008, 1:53 pm

Press Release Author: Michael Bertrand

Industry: Education

Press Release Summary: Review the subject of marijuana on the internet or at the
library, and you'll find a blizzard of contradictory and confusing information.
Experts on both sides of the argument fail to see eye to eye about the harmfulness
or addictiveness of the drug.

Press Release Body: Perhaps the only ones who know the truth are the ones who lost
years or decades of their lives to the substance. Like Rick, currently in rehab at
Narconon Arrowhead, one of the country's leading drug and alcohol rehabilitation
centers, located in Canadian, Oklahoma. Rick described his experience with
marijuana. "I started using marijuana while I was in college. After a while, I
stopped showing up for classes, I called in sick. I lost my energy or drive to
finish school. Eventually, I burned down my house while I was high and ended up
homeless. It was like ten years of my life were just gone. The drug made me selfish
and lazy."

Mark, a graduate of the Narconon drug and alcohol rehabilitation program, said "I
started smoking marijuana when I was eighteen. In essence, I woke up at 45 and
wondered what had happened to my life. I spent all those years disassociated from my
life, introverted into the world of marijuana which was more real to me than the
outside world. I tried to clean up on my own but was really mentally addicted to the
drug. It took the Narconon program to bring me out of my apathy and back to life."

The Narconon drug and alcohol rehabilitation program is a long-term program that
uses alternative methods to address and handle the guilt, cravings and depression
that results from drug and alcohol addiction. The program includes a thorough
detoxification of residual drug or alcohol toxins with a carefully-monitored program
of exercise, sweating in a sauna and nutritional supplements. This is the Narconon
New Life Detoxification Program, developed by author and humanitarian L. Ron Hubbard
in the late 1970s.

"The real solution to the addictive effects of marijuana is not legalization of the
drug," stated Ryan Thorpe, Admissions Director of Narconon Arrowhead. "The Narconon
program has been helping those addicted to marijuana or other drugs for more than 40
years. The sauna detoxification program is a major reason we have a seventy percent
success rate two years after graduation from our program. It is such a powerful
action that participants talk about smelling or re-sensing the drugs being emitted
from their bodies while they are in the sauna. Those completing this step often talk
about feeling clean and healthy again and not craving drugs any longer."

For information on Narconon's successful drug treatment program, contact Narconon
Arrowhead at 1-800-468-6933 or visit their website at www.stopaddiction.com. The
Narconon program was founded in 1966 by William Benitez in Arizona State prison, and
is based on the humanitarian works of L. Ron Hubbard. In more than 120 centers
around the world, Narconon programs restore drug and alcohol abusers and addicts to
a clean and sober lifestyle.



Web Site: http://www.stopaddiction.com

Contact Details: HC 67 Box 5
Canadian OK 74425
918-339-5874
918-339-5801
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