The first female graduate if the Narconon Drug Rehab Program was Jeannie Trahant in 1973. She has been a drug free menber of society for over 36 years since Her graduation of the program. This is Her personal story.
When Jeannie lost Her father at the age of four she began to use drugs. Her mother soon followed with an alcohol addiction of Her own which only added to Jeannie’s problems. Her mother wasn’t there for Her so she learned at an early age how to to be on Her own.
When she turned sixteen she was a full blown heroin addict. She had always planned to put the drugs down by 18 but when the time came, she was so addicted that she couldn’t stop using. The addiction got so bad that Jeannie ended up in jail. The jails prgroam to help Her only grew Her addiction to drugs.
It wasn’t untill she discovered the Narconon Drug Rehab Program that she began to have hope. She admitted Herself into the program and began to discover Her true abilities which gave the tools neccessary to engage life productivly. She successfully detoxed and graduated the Narconon Drug Rehab Courses.
She later was offered to work for the founder of the Narconon Drug Rehab Program, William Benitez. Her experience with Him was one of comrotery.
“He [Benitez] was one of us one who had beat the addiction through the Narconon Program and won his personal battle forever [drugs].”
Benitez, like Jeannie was a person who overcome barriers in their life and raised their abilities through the Narconon technology. Willie started the Narconon drug rehab program while incarcerated in Arizona state penitentiary, after reading a book by American author and humanitarian L. Ron Hubbard that helped him to overcome his own addiction to heroin.
The purpose of the Narconon program has always been to raise the abilities of the individual. Some of the first comments on this purpose have been released in a drug education talk given by Willie when the Narconon drug rehab program was just started back in 1966.