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Marie & I employ over 80 staff in our nursery business and many of our employees are young people aged between 15-23. Over the years we have seen how drug problems can devastate good people’s lives and it not just the person that’s affected but it’s their family, friends and workmates. I always believed that once a person got onto drugs that even if they wanted to get off drugs there was no real way that people could be reliably recovered from drug addiction.
Marie & I were invited by a friend to attend a Narconon™ graduation day which is a day where the students who have undergone the program celebrate their completion of the program. Marie and I were both moved by the before and after stories of the recovered drug addicts and the stories of their friends and the loved ones, these stories were very touching especially when you listened to how their loved ones talked about having them back in the family.
We did a tour of the Narconon™ facility and I understood why the program worked, that is because drug addiction is a really tough problem and what the Narconon™ program does is it takes the drug addict out of his dangerous environment and puts him into a very safe and very organised program which is really really tough.
It starts off with them doing a withdrawal program without the use of any other drugs and then they go into an intensive detox program which involves sauna, exercise and good diet and then its onto a very intensive educational and counselling program that helps them to handle or face the reason why they got onto drugs in the first place. This can take anywhere between 4 - 8 months.

One of the great features of this program is that many of the people who have gone through the program themselves have decided to give back to society what they took from society themselves and have trained up to help deliver the program to others. This not only shows how effective the program is, in that, ex drug affected people can be relied upon to deliver the program but these people really understand the needs and problems of people going through the program and are able to deliver the program in a way that nobody else could.

Marie and I decided to sponsor a person through the program as we felt that Narconon™ through its drug education and drug rehabilitaton programs has the technical ability to solve the drug problems in the community. Drugs are a massive problem in Australia and for Narconon™ to make a real difference they need broad community support and Marie and I decided to support Narconon™ firstly by paying for a person to do the program. Narconon™ selected a person whom they felt really wanted and needed to handle their problem but couldn’t afford to pay for the program themselves.
Marie and I are also supporting Narconon™ by publicising their cause with radio advertisements and having a Narconon™ section on our web site.

I bet that there’s been times when you’ve seen the terrible effect of drugs in our community and wished that something could be done about it. Jay’s Story... more

Narconon™ can really do something about it and you can support Narconon™ with a donation or a sponsorship that can be tailor made for your needs or just by going to the Narconon™ web site and finding out about the program and telling your friends about it. Remember that Narconon™ has a fully charitable status and that all donations are 100% tax deductable.