Friday, March 27, 2009

Narconon Successes

Case studies, evaluations, outcome reports, as well as Narconon internal monitoring of post-program results continue to show dramatic reduction in drug relapse and/or criminal recidivism.

Arizona Correctional Authority Report (Staff report, August 13, 1972, on the first Narconon program) 75% of Narconon students drug-free one year after release.

California Dept. of Corrections Report (L.A. Bennett, Ph. D., June 14, 1974) 70% crime-free one year after release.

California Institute for Women Report (D.R. Jaman, July 15, 974) 78% drug-free

six months - one year after release.

Rikers Island Institute for Men, New York (Internal Report by E. Reiner, July 3, 1974) 73% of Narconon students release from prison remained drug-free on parole.

Narconon Boston Case Study with COntrol (C.H. Washburn, M.D., June 30, 1975) 91% of Narconon case study group reported drug-free 10 months post program, compared to 0% of the control group drug-free.

Delaware Correctional Center Case Study with Control (Narconon Delaware internal report, 1975) 70% with no re-arrest six months to one year after release, compared to 35.6% of controls.

Narconon Stockholm, Sweden, External Case Study without Control (P. Gerdman, May 1981) 78.6% of study group graduates were drug-free four years post-program.

Narconon Los Molinos, Spain. External Study without control group (Spanish Association for Social Improvement, 1985) 78.4% of program graduates drug-free one year later.

Also, although 62.2% of Narconon enrollees reported committing crimes before program, 0% reported criminal offenses after graduation.

"Internal Program Evaluation of Narconon of Oklahoma Results" (SL Beckmann, Ph.D.) Paper presented to Second International conference on Human Detoxification, Stockholm, Sweden, 1997) Two years post-program completion compared to prior-to-program, 86% drop in participation in illegal activities, 99% drop in length of last incarceration, 97% drop in average days incarcerated in last 30 days.

"Analysis of Results in Ensenada State Prison" The Second Chance Program (licensed by Narconon), Ensenada, Mexico (HG. Garcia, Autonomous University of Baja California, 2001) Of the 1,682 inmates who did the Narconon program inside the prison, only 9.51% recidivated to prison within 1 to 5 years of release.

"Intermediate Sanctions for Juvenile Offenders" Utah Fourth District Juvenile Court (MR Phillips, MPA; MA Cecchini, MS; JH Wolfe, MS; Robert Graves, presented to the Conference of Western Attorneys General, Maui, Aug 2005) 100 of the first youths enrolled in this court-ordered program had committed 1,100 misdemeanor or felony offenses within 2 years prior to the Narconon out-patient program, delivered in collaboration with the Court Administration. 63.5% were found to have been totally crime free for two years following the program, compared to 30.1% of a comparison group (Utah juveniles who had done a different court-ordered program).

Summary Analysis on Narconon Arrowhead Routine Outcome Monitoring "6 Month Outcome Results - May 2006" Presentation of this data along with new routine outcome monitoring system to JMATE Conference [Joint Meeting on Adolescent Treatment Effectiveness], Baltimore MD, March 2006 80% of graduates surveyed for three month period: 87.3% drug and alcohol free last 30 days 76.9% regularly employed or in school full-time.

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