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e learned long ago that alcohol and other drug abuse affect not just the individual, but the family, the school, the community, the nation -- it has become a global scourge. The problems of a recovering drug addict are very different than those of a young person wavering in his decision about whether or not he should abstain from drugs. The problems of our communities dealing with increasingly drug-prone cultures escalate in complexity.

you in your community, your school or college, with young persons in the military, the police, inside jails and juvenile halls, and with inmate-release. In big, city-wide events and with individual mentoring and tutoring. The list is extensive. Our purpose is to discover new ideas and more energy, more connections, new relationships — we can do more. We can help you. You can help us. There are so many lives to save or to keep healthy and happy. If we pull together.

However, let us be honest -- something can be done. When communities and professionals and volunteers all pull together, what we do works. The Narconon network of drug rehabilitation and prevention centers spans six continents. For decades we have worked with

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Enjoy this celebration of good works. It is good news where good news is needed. Do let us know if you would like our help, or if you yourself would like to contribute or volunteer.

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Community education projects

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rug abuse and addiction affect the community as a whole; therefore, we have many projects working in conjunction or collaboration with other like-minded organizations to provide drug education and prevention across entire cities or regions.

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Helping Hawaiian parents talk to their children

Working with Mexican Law Officers

When Hawaii found itself gripped by a methamphetamine “Ice” epidemic, Narconon Hawaii conducted a statewide drug ed campaign, launched with personal help from Hawaiianborn celebrity Kelly Preston. A Hawaiian parent kit, “Keeping Your Kids Drug-Free — What Parents Need to Know,” was created based on parent interviews. They distributed 9,000 copies throughout the islands, reinforced with live drug ed presentations to 10,000s of students in 100 schools and groups.

Wars between rival drug gangs have ripped Mexico to the core. Working jointly with law enforcement agencies, Narconon Mexico has responded with popular drug prevention programs to multiple sectors of society and anti-drug programs in schools. Observing the effectiveness of our drug education to Pedro Escobedo school children, the Federal District Commander requested hands-on training for his police officers to better comprehend the mindaltering consequences of drugs and learn how to interact more effectively with individuals under the influence.

Sample response to the Parent Kit — a father called and told how his son had earlier decided not to go to college because he could ‘make better money selling pakalo (marijuana).’ But after the father provided the Parent Kit/DVD for his son to watch, the boy said he finally understood the actual harm from pot and told his dad he wanted now to go to college and then earn an honest, drug-free living.

Colombia anti-drug campaign Narconon Colombia has conducted a nationwide public awareness anti-drug campaign named “Evolución sin Drogas y Alcohol,” delivering to 10,000s in the cities of Medellín, Nieva, Pereira, Quindío, Armenia, La Mesa, Cundinamarca and Bogotá. Narconon staff delivered to schools, universities and civic groups, also speaking to mothers’ groups, a juvenile camp of 400 young persons, and participating in the World Congress Against Drug Addiction. The national paper El Tiempo has featured stories about Narconon. Additionally, radio and television programs have reached nearly 10 million people.

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Ten years of educating Mexican school children (above)

Police officials acknowledge Narconon Mexico for training officers (left)

Drug education talks to 100 schools throughout the islands (above). Over 9,000 Parent education kits distributed (right).

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Pledging to drive drug-free in South Africa Cape Town -- Engen Petrol, operator of gas stations in South Africa, collaborated with Narconon staff in a unique “drug-free driving” campaign. Volunteers manning filling stations in Cape Town and other coastal towns invited motorists to sign a pledge to be a drug-free driver. 26,207 motorists drove away with stickers stating I have pledged to be an alcohol and drug free driver, and 16,469 drug education booklets were distributed.

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Tens of thousands sign “drug-free driver” pledges in Cape Town.

Video program educating 9,000,000 school children What began as a grassroots movement of Friends of Narconon has evolved into a drug education curriculum, being used in over 7,000 U.S. schools

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Recognizing back in the 1990’s that drugs were ruining her country, Marina Gribinova decided to really do something about it. She received comprehensive Narconon drug educator training and set out to reach children and adults virtually everywhere in her homeland. Starting from Kharkov, she soon was personally lecturing to 25,000 school children per year.

Daily lectures to school children at DEA Museum in New York City In conjunction with the U.S. DEA’s (Drug Enforcement Administration) traveling exhibit and museum housed in Times Square in New York City, Narconon drug prevention specialists gave daily presentations to thousands of school children touring the site from throughout the state. In addition, the Narconon team went out into the city to present to school children and other organizations such as Bronx Hospital.

Drug ed presentations delivered at the DEA Museum in New York city.

Madame Gribanova has since delivered 3,200 lectures to 200,000 people at 450 schools and universities and gone on to train many others in drug education. She professionally videotaped her presentation and has already distributed 3500 DVDs to schools and other organizations. Additionally, 18 television stations, from Dneproprtrovsk to Odessa, have broadcast her talks to tens of millions of viewers. Since the 1990’s, addiction levels have dropped by 10% in areas where Marina has been delivering the drug education programs, while in other regions where Marina has not delivered the program, addiction has increased by 12%, a difference in hundreds of thousands kept off drugs.

Nationwide awareness campaign reaches millions of Ukraine citizens through live presentations and TV. Over 200,000 students have received drug education presentations.

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Bringing drug prevention and rehabilitation to new areas

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ations facing worsening drug problems have inadequate resources to thwart the trends, especially with drug abuse circumstances constantly changing, such as newly expanding youth addiction in Ghana, heroin addiction exploding in Russia and China, methamphetamine across the Asian Pacific, unpredicted cocaine abuse in Iran, and so on. Narconon staff and volunteers have come to their aid, logging tens of thousands of miles to deliver presentations on effective rehabilitation and drug prevention techniques at international conferences in, for example, India, Pakistan, China, Seychelles (Africa), and Iran. We also fully train international staffs in our proven rehabilitation methods and return with them to help them set up successful rehabilitation and prevention programs in places as far flung as Honduras, Philippines, Pakistan, and Ghana.

Former homeless child in Honduras now able to study and learn.

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Helping orphans in Kazakhstan For countless years, the country of Kazakhstan has been on the route for drugs and other contraband from Asia into Europe. Drug abuse is increasingly a problem there. The population that has especially fallen through the cracks, as elsewhere, are young people, particularly orphans of incarcerated drug addicts, criminals, etc. Narconon trained a corps of business volunteers on how to deliver impacting presentations for these children, concentrating on communication, life skills, and revitalizing their goals to achieve their dreams.

Child writing down his goals in his own booklet.

Philippines At the invitation of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Administration and Dangerous Drugs Board (DDB), Narconon International delivered training in both drug rehabilitation and education to professionals. After their training, Philippine DEA agents themselves have delivered to more than 200,000 students. In collaboration with the DDB, Narconon also provided an intensive seven-day workshop to staffs from six rehabilitation centers on drug-free withdrawal and other life skills techniques.

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Narconon-trained interns teach communication skills to Filipino drug addicts (top). Drug Enforcement agent applies his training in drug education talk to Manila school children (bottom). 13

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Pakistan anti-narcotics efforts

Helping Honduran Street Kids

In 2002, Narconon International staff traveled to Pakistan and conducted workshops on Narconon drug-free withdrawal methods in Rawalpindi, Lahore, Peshawar, and Karachi. The Pakistan Anti-Narcotics Force then printed and distributed thousands of Narconon drug education booklets. Headed by a fully trained MD and MPH, Dr. Mohammed Sharif, Narconon drug prevention has since been carried forward nationwide. One Sharif highlight is his annual march through Hyderabad on the UN Day Against Drug Abuse.

In 2006 Narconon of Georgia was approached by an Atlanta doctor who volunteered yearly at an orphanage for rescued Honduran street children. Having heard about the remarkable sauna detoxification program delivered in Narconon drug rehabilitation to reduce drug and other toxic residuals in the body, the doctor and other orphanage staff wanted to use this healthful procedure to help their children who had persisting cravings for ‘glue’ and other street drugs. Georgia trained the MD and Program Director on the exercise, nutrition, and sauna program protocol, then sent a Narconon instructor to Central America to train other delivery personnel and supervise the first implementation.

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President Narconon International has presented Narconon science and program results to three international ‘Hope’ conferences on drug abuse and AIDS in Mumbai, attended by professionals from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, South Africa, US, Canada, Australia, Switzerland, Italy and other European countries.

Results have been splendid. Aggressiveness has greatly reduced, the children have become more sociable and affectionate and now say they are ‘genuinely sorry for misdeeds.’ Staff report that the children now express goals to complete school and to ‘grow up and become good men.’ Many of the program children are scoring better grades and several have won awards for academics. Street kids given more hope (top). Damaging effects of inhalants reduced through sauna detoxification program (middle). Study and grades improve with students (bottom). 14 | Community | NEW AREAS

Pakistan volunteers promote their drug free message on International Day Against Drug Abuse (top). Workshop introduces Narconon drug-free withdrawal methods in Pakistan (middle right). Pakistan Boy Scouts educated on the effects of drugs (middle right).

Also in Mumbai, Narconon Int staff provided drug ed training to students at six colleges, to MDs at a medical university, and other civic groups. New Delhi staff deliver Narconon drug education as well as Narconon First Step services (helping addicts withdraw themselves voluntarily). Soon there will be a full Narconon residential center in the New Delhi area.

Mumbai India college students absorb all they can from Narconon drug education workshops. 15

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Drug-free methods to China With a population of over 1.2 billion people and a steadily burgeoning economy, China is in the throes of an escalating drug epidemic. There has long been a serious alcohol problem, but heroin is an increasing concern. Clark Carr, president of Narconon International, presented to the First China International Symposium on Alcohol and then was invited by a professor at the WHO

“You taught us how to communicate, making complex theory easy to understand with vivid demonstration technique.” Shanghai Health Teacher

Shanghai Collaborating Center to return to Shanghai to deliver intensive drug educator training to health teachers. The 53 trainees representing every city district reported that they appreciated Narconon’s method of instructing youth as much as the course data, especially the communicatable simplicity of core data.

Helping to prevent drug use in Shanghai with drug education training for teachers.

Drug education brought to thousands of Ghanaian school children each year.

Ghana: After a Ghanaian came to Narconon Interna- then, Ghana staff have gone out across the country and tional to train up as a drug educator, Narconon International staff traveled to Accra to help found and establish a Narconon Ghana drug education center. Since

delivered to thousands of children and adults annually in schools and other venues.

Iran: An invited speaker to the International Conference on Traditional and Complementary Medicine in Sari, Iran on the Caspian Sea, President Narconon International briefed 300 attendees from Iran, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and other nations on the Narconon First Step Program, nutritionally supported drug-free withdrawal techniques. Since then, Iranian professionals have traveled to Narconon’s European training center in Copenhagen to fully train on the drug rehabilitation program. Demonstrating withdrawal pain reduction techniques in Iran. 16

SEYCHELLES: In Seychelles, off the east coast of Africa, Narconon participated in the annual Eastern, Central and South African Ministers of Health Conference attended by 16 nations. We briefed the national health ministers as well as 100 other dignitaries on Narconon drug education and rehabilitation. Now Seychelles drug abuse reduction staff and Narconon Johannesburg in South Africa are collaborating to train staff to utilize Narconon methodology. Community | NEW AREAS | 17

Sporting events send the right message

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or decades Narconon has demonstrated through sporting events that playing a game in life is hugely more fun and rewarding than using drugs. The Women’s Sports Foundation validated this long Narconon practice in their recent study which showed that playing sports results in reduced risk for all illicit drug use for both female and male athletes. Hosting or organizing sports activities ranging from celebrity softball games, to the Narconon Miracles hockey team, European football games, local or international marathons, and golf tournaments, Narconon volunteers and staff consistently utilize community sports to promote a healthy, drug-free lifestyle as well as to educate regarding the dangers of drugs.

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A supermarathon from Paris to Moscow!

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Car Racing

A Narconon Race Car in the UK

Hungarian bicycle tour

Community soccer teams in Russia , Sweden, Switzerland and California

Bicycling

Hockey The Narconon Miracles team suits up against LA Kings Alumni to raise funds for drug education.

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Celebrities join with Narconon for softball games in Hollywood, CA

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Centers reach out to create drug-free communities

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uccessfully rehabilitating addicts within our facilities is only one portion of Narconon’s overall purpose. The broader purpose incorporates reaching out with prevention programs to youth and adults to proof them up against the false lure of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs. To that end Narconon staff and volunteers have been active in their communities for decades and all over the world. We have worked with local social organizations, teachers, politicians, police — in short, anyone fighting drug abuse. Local Narconon staff and their community supporters are endlessly inventive — an anti-drug sailboat delivering drug education along a lakeshore, staff helping provide drug and crime-free high-school graduations, Hollywood stunt presentations, organizing whole communities to get out on the street to show that the majority support drug-free and ethical living. And on and on. It is not only fun. It works.

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Narconon Nepal rehab center blankets country with drug education Kathmandu’s Narconon center produces drugfree lives, but they have also reached out to over seven million people through TV, radio and newspapers. Their staff and students have given live drug ed talks to more than 500,000 persons in schools, the armed forces, and other venues. They held the first-ever 5,000 person anti-drug march through the main street of Kathmandu, ending with a huge rally. When he was Senior Supt for the Chief of Police for Kathmandu, Basanta Raj Kunwar learned about Narconon methods. He asked for our help to bring the program to Nepal. His Pratigya Foundation staff trained at a center in Melbourne and others were interned at home in Nepal. Their drug rehab center has since saved hundreds of lives and is constructing new facilities in the hills outside Kathmandu. Narconon Nepal students study hard to complete their programs (top). This past year, their educational campaign has reached over 500,000 with live presentations and over seven million through media. (right and below)

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Canadian Sea Cadets learn the truth about drugs.

The Quebec Expo, Monaco go-cart races in the town of TroisRiviere, Quebec City’s marathon, drug education with sea cadets and young athletes at the skating school — Narconon Trois Rivieres staff are endlessly creative in their interaction with communities. In addition, they have distributed thousands of Narconon’s very popular Ten Things Your Friends May Not Know About Drugs drug education booklet.

Downtown Atlanta Narconon of Georgia stays as busy outside their center as within, regularly participating in downtown Atlanta activities, such as the annual Red Ribbon Week. They also collaborated with a local community group’s summer enrichment program for children, teaching learning skills and providing drug education presentations to all attendees. After-school drug education and tutoring for Atlanta children

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Northern California As a member of their local high school’s Sober Grad Night Committee, Narconon Vista Bay staff volunteer at the annual graduation night event helping to provide a safe, drug and crime-free environment for the students and their families. Vista Bay also participates with the Santa Cruz Sheriff’s Activity League Program for at-risk youth and are members of the Santa Cruz Meth Project along with the Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs, United Way, and the Rotary Club.

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Vista Bay staff have become an integral part of community events.

Narconon Arrowhead, our flagship drug rehabilitation and international training center, provides drug education presentations to 50,000 Oklahoma children yearly. Arrowhead staff are active members in state and regional anti-drug coalitions. Furthermore, Narconon Arrowhead provides accredited Continuing Education Units at Eastern Oklahoma College where professionals from drug rehabilitation, social services, and law enforcement have taken workshops.

Professionals receive continuing education credit for Narconon courses.

Southern California Our most popular drug ed booklet, simple and to-the-point, translated in over 15 languages, downloadable at www.narconon.org.

Hungary Narconon Hungary brought drug education to the waves, entering their sailboat in one of Europe’s premier sailing races on Balaton Lake. The real prize for area kids was having the sailboat glide up to their summer camp for on-site drug education on the grass.

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Russia R N Narconon Standard, our rrehabilitation center outside Moscow, goes regularly M iinto community nightclubs aand other venues, enlighteening young people on the ttruths about drugs and ssetting an example that a ddrug-free life can be cool.

In California’s high desert, Narconon San Diego staff are highly trained members of the rural volunteer Fire Department, vital to their area threatened by forest fires. They also provide emergency response care to highway accident victims.

A Narconon volonteer fireman commended for saving lives.

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rug abuse is all-inclusive, discriminating against no one — rich or poor, highly educated or day laborer. Narconon makes it a practice to work with people of all races, of diverse religions and cultures, and widely ranging professions and vocations. Our collaborations have spanned from military, including both army and navy in Sweden, to police forces around the world, to civic organizations such as Boys and Girls clubs and Rotarians, to businesses large and small.

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Peer leader training in the Muslim community by Narconon Cape Town.

Faith communities An Oklahoma Faith Based and Community Partners Conference was co-hosted by Narconon International and SAMSHA (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration) with representatives of 20

Federal and state agencies conference to

churches and 25 drug rehab programs from 21 towns and cities. The theme of the conference was “Faith communities partnering with rehabilitation professionals to save lives.” Diverse churches and religious groups use Narconon-trained staff to better help members of

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their congregation. The African Methodist Episcopal Church even appointed Narconon-trained Rev. James McLaughlin to coordinate their drug rehabilitation efforts. Rev. McLaughlin has evolved

Rev. James McLaughlin speaking to his congregation about the First Step program.

a unique faith-based combination of Narconon methodology and scripture, creating his Faith Step, First Step seminars for pastors and parishioners across the United States.

Native Americans: Alcohol and other drug addiction is a continuNative American youth studying about drugs.

ing crisis amongst many Native American communities. Narconon staff have worked closely with Native Americans from Narconon’s earliest days . Recent programs include work with the Blackfeet in Browning, Montana and with tribes in California and North Dakota and other inter-tribal organizations.

Narconon Goteborg in Sweden educates thousands of soldiers every year.

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Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

Martin Luther King Jr. parade in Los Angeles, California

Too many African-American communities have been blighted with drug abuse for too long. For some years Narconon staff have taken an active part in the celebration of the Martin Luther King holiday in the United States, partnering with others to provide drug education and public awareness events, as well as hands-on staff training. Narconon contest gives young people an opportunity to show their creativity.

The Positive Art of Hip Hop Jo Joining forces with groups such as Cease Fire (a violence prevvention and intervention team), the Hip Hop Hall of Fame, and local businesses, Narconon has produced VIP “hip hop” parties. lo The theme is The Positive Art of Hip Hop. Local kids particiT ppate creating T-shirts with their own clever anti-drug messages. Community groups collaborate for creative Hip Hop event.

Peer Training delivered to Americorp volunteers during Martin Luther King Jr. Season of Service (above). Tony Bylsma delivers drug education to thousands of Los Angeles school children throughout the year (right).

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The Narconon program A grassroots effort from the start

“Y may have “You h noticed ti d that society is rapidly going downhill... And the most serious part of this is that drugs, both medical and street drugs, have disabled a majority of those who could have handled it, including the political leaders, and have even paralyzed the coming generations.”

William Benitez, founder of Narconon, receiving an award for his first year helping hundreds of other inmates free themselves from drug addiction.

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ounded in 1966 by William Benitez, a heroin addict seeking recovery for both himself and those around him, the Narconon program has always been drug-free. Instead of substitute drugs, it uses nutrition, exercise, cleansing the body of toxins, and life skills courses to help a recovering addict raise his abilities to live a stably drug-free, ethical life. Based on the research of author and humanitarian L. Ron Hubbard, with the vital contributions of community volunteers, the network has expanded from the first program inside Arizona State Prison now to comprise more than 135 centers in 50 countries. From the beginning, more than half our effort has been dedicated to drug prevention and education. There, too, Narconon staff, graduates, and volunteers have lead the way. creating communitybased public awareness and youth/adult education programs based on the life-affirming objective of a drug and crime-free society.

Avoiding scare tactics and going beyond “just say no,” Narconon drug education consults young persons’ understanding, teaching them vital fundamentals about drugs as a whole subject, rather than focus on one or another drug. People have always used drugs to solve problems, but drugs are basically poisons, and far better solutions to life’s problems can be found through setting goals and raising personal abilities to reach them. The Narconon network has graduated tens of thousands of persons through rehabilitation and has given live presentations to millions of young people, military, police, and community groups. Visual and printed materials have reached many millions more. This could not have been done without active, coordinated community participation, all of us pulling together to make our towns safer and happier for our children and ourselves.

Closing message from the President Regardless of how the words change in describing alcohol and other drug abuse, addiction and drug-related crime and their effects on school children, young adults, our communities and nations, the factual problems continue to plague us. Our 1,200 Narconon staff worldwide labor day and night seven days a week. We are terribly proud of them and their accomplishments. Our drug educators and community volunteers have been endlessly creative in raising public awareness, understanding, and commitment. The global challenge requires more than any one organization can do. We must all work together. For decades Narconon has led the way and joined willingly with

communities and social organizations to do something about it. Do not give up on the concept of safe and drug-free communities. Drug education works and works well. More must be delivered. Communities banding together do change conditions for the better — we must not stop. If there is anything a Narconon staff member, Narconon graduate, or volunteer can do to help you or your community, please contact us. And, yes, your help is welcome and needed. Together let us make a healthier, happier future for our communities, children and young people.

Visit www.narconon.org or email [email protected]

Clark Carr

“A community that pulls together can make a better society for all.” L. Ron Hubbard

Thousands of children may start using drugs today. Join with us in neighborhood efforts to create drug-free communities.

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