The Objectives of the Narconon Presentations are:
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To give the student a full understanding of the actual effect of drugs on the body, the mind and the emotions.
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To give the student a personal reason of their own to keep away from drugs.
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To empower students to arrive at their own conclusions.
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To strengthen the student's ability to spot and reject influences that might persuade them into drug use.
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To help people develop self-confidence and self-reliance on their decisions.
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To help people establish and develop skills to achieve positive goals in life.
What we talk about:
Talk 1:
Definition of a drug: We have found that most people, when asked,
cannot give a clear definition of exactly what a drug is. This talk simply
clears up all the confusion that surrounds what drugs are and, with that
basic foundation understood, learning of the subject becomes straight
forward and easy.
Alcohol and commercials: Even though alcohol is responsible for more
deaths than any other drug, most people don’t consider it to be a drug.
This talk goes through, step by step, how alcohol is made and why it
ends up as a drug. We also take a look at the different messages used
in advertising campaigns by the industry to get and keep people drinking
alcohol.
The mind: The mind is basically made up of pictures, and all the information
that a person uses in one’s life comes straight from these pictures. This talk
graphically demonstrates this phenomenon and shows the link between drug
use and the blank spots that occur in one’s mind following the taking of drugs.
It also covers which drugs actually scramble one’s pictures and how this can
lead to further drug abuse.
Talk 2:
Physical addiction. While a person is on drugs and for years after they have
stopped, a person’s body gets depleted of certain vitamins and minerals. This
causes various aches and pains in the body and as a result the person will
continue to use drugs as a method of trying to manage this pain. In this talk
we cover what starts physical addiction, what keeps it going and the lengths
a person will go to, to try and handle the uncontrollable urges of addiction.
Drugs in the body/Marijuana: Most foods that a person consumes pass
through the body roughly within 24 hours. This is not the case for most
drugs. It has been proven most drugs stay in the body for a long period
of time, sometimes years. These drug residues have a long-term effect
while still in the body, for they continue to burn the much-needed vitamins
and minerals that the body relies on to function properly. These drug
residues also get released back into the blood stream at different points
in time, and this creates the urge for more drugs. This talk addresses one
of the key points that keeps a person addicted to drugs.
Talk 3:
Cigarettes and media: Have you noticed that more and more teenagers
are starting to smoke cigarettes for the first time than ever before? In fact,
around 700 teenagers try cigarettes for the first time in Australia every day.
In this talk we expose the exact methods that the tobacco companies are
now using to turn dwindling sales of the past into record sales of the present.
Emotions. People move through different emotions in their daily life and a
person’s emotions are greatly affected by the use of drugs.
While most people try to be alive and active, the same cannot be said for a
person who is on drugs. As drugs get a tighter grip on a person’s life, they
push one’s emotions down into despair, apathy and lifelessness. With a lot of
audience participation during this talk, the attendees get to really see how
emotionally unstable a drug addict can become.
Group agreement. We take a close look at the issue of peer group pressure,
and how on most occasions the decisions made at these times weren’t the most
survival choice the person could have made. This talk also lets us have a look at
the long-term consequences that result from the rash decisions a person can
make under these circumstances.
