Is rehab an opportunity or a punishment?

Some believe that rehab should be a place where you skulk around feeling pitiful, possibly even treated like a wet rag. Others believe that rehab should be a punishment, where a person has to be broken down and stripped of their strong headed attitudes. These attitudes about rehab programs came about through animal training and a repentant attitude of having done wrong. Neither Pavlovian animal training nor hyper critical demoralizing techniques are rehabilitation. Breaking down wild animals and ego destruction has little or nothing to do with rehabilitating people.

Rehabilitation at Narconon Centers

A rehab program should bring a person’s true personality out and rid them of their false characteristics. A Narconon rehab program never criticizes the person, instead their actions may be wrong and need to be amended. At Narconon rehab centers, people are treated with a great deal of dignity and granted importance for who they are. They are expected to reclaim their lives and take control of life again, despite the situations they may find themselves in.

Rehab means to rehabilitate or bring back to normal or proper functioning or state. A Narconon rehab center counselors assume their is a rightness about the individual that needs to be assisted back into operation.

The Narconon rehab program is a social betterment program focusing on social skills, honesty, integrity and improving ones own lot in life. While understanding and compassion for someone who’s realized that they’ve really messed up is an integral part of rehab, the focus is educating Narconon students to be more successful and effective community citizens.

Self respect and confidence in self are the result of pride in doing the right thing. Self respect is not something that can be given to someone or attained through medications. Self confidence is earned. Rehabilitation is a the process of helping another bring out the best in themselves so they can regain pride in themselves.

Narconon is a rehabilitation program focusing on Social Educational skills.

Tibor A. Palatinus, Narconon Vancouver

Narconon Drug Prevention Specialist and Rehab Counselor