Whois & Analysis for narconon.org

Narconon International (commonly known as Narconon) is an organization that promotes the theories of Scientology founder L.

Ron Hubbard regarding substance abuse treatment and addiction.

Its parent company is the Association for Better Living and Education (ABLE), which is owned and controlled by the Church of Scientology.

Headquartered in Hollywood, California, U.S., Narconon operates several dozen residential centers worldwide, chiefly in the United States and Western Europe.

The organization was formed in 1966 by Scientologist William Benitez with Hubbard's help.

Benitez contacted Hubbard after reading his book, and Narconon was incorporated in 1970.

Drug rehabilitation (often drug rehab or just rehab) is a term for the processes of medical or psychotherapeutic treatment, for dependency on psychoactive substances such as alcohol, prescription drugs, and street drugs such as cocaine, heroin or amphetamines.

The general intent is to enable the patient to confront substance dependence, if present, and cease substance abuse in order to avoid the psychological, legal, financial, social, and physical consequences that can be caused, especially by extreme abuse.

Treatment includes medication for depression or other disorders, counseling by experts and sharing of experience with other addicts.

Some rehab centers include meditation and spiritual wisdom in the treatment process.

A few centers also treat gambling with the same techniques as are used in drug rehabilitation.

Find-a-Drug (often abbreviated as 'FAD') was a not for profit distributed computing project which was set up in April 2002 by Treweren Consultants, the company who developed the THINK software.

Find-a-Drug aimed to run a series of projects in parallel addressing a number of diseases which have a major impact on health.

The project sought to collaborate with the world's leading experts including academics in each therapeutic area.

Drug education is the planned provision of information, resources, and skills relevant to living in a world where psychoactive substances are widely available and commonly used for a variety of both medical and non-medical purposes, some of which may lead to harms such as overdose, injury, infectious disease (such as HIV or hepatitis C), or addiction.

Substance Abuse Prevention, also known as drug abuse prevention, is a process that attempts to prevent the onset of substance use or limit the development of problems associated with using psychoactive's substances.

Prevention efforts may focus on the individual or their surroundings.

A concept known as "environmental prevention" focuses on changing community conditions or policies so that the availability of substances is reduced as well as the demand.