Young Vancouver Musician Restores His Goals After Overcoming Cocaine Addiction

I recently had the opportunity to interview one of our graduates, Jordan Field. Jordan is a very talented young musician from Vancouver, British Columbia. His story is a reminder that is it possible to leave addiction behind if you have the right program. Here's the beginning to his story. To finish the story, just click the link at the bottom.

Like a lot of teenagers, Jordan Field was rebellious in his teenage years. However, not every rebellious teen becomes addicted to cocaine when they hit their early twenties, but Jordan did. Fortunately, Jordan found a drug rehab that taught him the life skills he needs to live drug-free from now on, freeing him to concentrate on his musical talents.

“I’ve been a musician and a dancer most of my life,” Jordan said. “But when I got into using cocaine and ecstasy, I lost sight of my goals completely.” Somehow, Jordan managed to keep his drug use a secret from his family. “I was staying up for three or four days at a time on cocaine. Finally it hit me that if I want to succeed in life and in my musical career, it won’t involve drugs.”

To finish this story, please go to: Young Musician Restores Goals. Or visit the website for Narconon Arrowhead.

$60 Million Still Being Poured Into National Anti-Drug Campaign Proven a Failure

A study by the Rockville, Maryland research group Westat, validated by the General Accounting Office, showed that $1.2 billion of taxpayer money was pumped into a youth anti-drug campaign that failed to show a positive result. The campaign was the National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign that ran between 1998 and 2004, created and run by the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), a branch of the White House.

The Westat group measured improvements in drug use or opinions of drug use by students and found that the campaign, rather than lessening drug use, “may have promoted perceptions among exposed youth that others’ drug use was normal.”

Even parents receiving these drug messages were not impressed. The Westat review showed that more parents talked to their kids about drugs subsequent to being exposed to the campaign but did not monitor their children’s drug use any more vigilantly.

Still, the ONDCP was bold enough to recently ask Congress for another $130 million to continue the campaign. On their website they complain of a lack of support when the response was just $60 million for this failed campaign.

How many kids could Narconon drug education reach with $130 million? We'd even settle for $60 million. There are plenty of measurable results from our drug education outreach, based on the surveys done of students at the end of our presentations.

To read the rest of this article, please go to: $60 Million. Or visit the website at Narconon Arrowhead.