Science Still Missing the Boat on Addiction

(PRWEB) December 1, 2004

For several decades drug and alcohol addiction has been viewed as an incurable brain disease by the scientific, medical and psychiatric communities. In a statement released last week by the National Institutes of Health, the National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA) Director contradicted herself by claiming that Â?drug addiction is a brain disease,Â? in one sentence and then saying that abnormalities have been discovered in Â?the brains of some, but not all, addicted individuals.Â?

There are a lot of good individuals and agencies actively trying to help people addicted to drugs and alcohol, including NIDA, but this disease theory has yet to be proven and the treatments for it have yet to work on any broad scale. Our government continues to throw hundreds of millions of dollars at research to study addiction instead of giving it to treatment and rehabilitation methods that have shown significant results.

Concurrent with the theory of addiction being a brain disease the NIDA Director also asked for more Â?contributions of the pharmaceutical industry in developing new medications.Â? The problem with this, as evident by the recalls, law suits, black box warning labels and the seemingly endless list of side-effects, is that putting people on more drugs doesnÂ?t help them in the long run and certainly doesnÂ?t fit the definition of rehabilitation. A person cannot be considered clean and sober if they are on drugs, whether they are legal or not.

Alternative programs like Narconon Arrowhead have been able to conclusively demonstrate for over thirty years that alcohol and other drug addiction can be overcome permanently and on a broad scale. While the genetics, ethnicities, social cultures and drugs of abuse may vary, the results are the same with this unique and highly successful drug-free methodology developed by L. Ron Hubbard.

The Narconon® Drug Rehabilitation and Education Program uses an effective sauna detoxification protocol to eliminate the physical cravings for drugs and restore health and clarity to addicted individuals. This is followed by a series of life skills courses that help them to confront, control and communicate with others and their environment, ultimately giving them the tools to restore abilities, repair damaged relationships and live productive drug-free lives.

According to a spokesperson at Narconon Arrowhead, Â?Our goal is the total eradication of substance abuse. We would love to put ourselves out of business by ending drug addiction and move on to something else that helps society. It is possible, but we as individuals, agencies and as a nation must agree that it can be done and support programs that show results. We canÂ?t keep pouring money into ineffective measures while the social fabric continues to decay because of drugs.Â?

To learn more about successful drug rehabilitation and education, contact Narconon Arrowhead today at 1-800-468-6933 or visit www.stopaddiction.com.

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