There are a host of labs and companies available locally and nationwide to administer drug testing. Drug testing may also be done post-incident in a hospital. For instance, someone who appears to be under the influence of intoxicants after being involved in a vehicular crash involving injury or death could be submitted to the hospital if they themselves are also injured. There, bloodwork is often drawn up to determine whether drugs or alcohol are present in the bloodstream.

Otherwise, drug testing is mandated by employers, the court or drug rehabilitation facilities. These parties have a vested interest in knowing whether a person is drug-free. An employer wants to minimize on-the-job risk, a court may be ensuring a person is not in violation of probation on a drug charge, and a drug rehab center obviously wants to ensure the patient is clean and sober before release. Employers, drug rehab centers and the courts will all typically contract out with a laboratory testing company to fulfill their drug testing needs.

Parents may provide drug testing with home kits that may be purchased inexpensively over the Internet. However, this is not recommended because the analysis of the results could be misleading to an amateur. It is critical that an expert handle the procedure so a teenager is not falsely accused or their addiction is not dismissed prematurely.

Drug testing is usually a scientific examination of urine samples to decide whether or not drugs are present in the body. Drug testing can be administered at scheduled times, like often before being hired at a new job. However, it is also administered randomly quite frequently, so the person undergoing drug testing will not know when to expect it.

Some companies require their employees to undergo random drug testing throughout their time of employment with the company. This is particularly true of companies that require frequent driving or operation of heavy machinery. Random drug testing can also be ordered by the courts or by drug rehabilitation facilities when there is suspicion that someone may still be using drugs.Drug testing may also be given following incidents like car accidents, DUI arrests or on-the-job accidents. This clarifies whether drugs played a factor in the incident. The drug testing results can point to more serious legal ramifications.

In addition to drug testing by urine samples, also known as urinalysis, other types of drug testing include: hair, saliva and sweat drug testing. While urinalysis is the most common type of drug testing, hair is the most accurate type. This form of drug testing can go back three months on average. There is, however, a dispute over the hair structure of some ethnic groups falsely creating positive drug testing results.

Saliva tests can detect drug use during the previous few days. This highly quick and convenient drug testing method is gaining popularity because there is no way the results can be compromised. Sweat drug testing is a very scarcely used method that involves the secure application of a skin patch that registers any drug use over the period of a week or two.

Drug testing is most commonly conducted in a laboratory. The tests themselves are simple enough, but analysis of the drug testing results is a very complicated procedure. Different tests must be administered for different drugs. Because the drug testing procedure is so complicated and difficult to understand, it is recommended that drug testing be done only in labs or by certified medical professionals. These labs may contract with companies to drug test all employees of that company, either at structured or random intervals. The employees may be tested at their workplace, but will more often be required to drive to the lab for the drug testing.

There are plenty of home drug testing kits for sale on various Internet web sites. This may be a popular option for parents or legal guardians who suspect a child in their home is using drugs. The web sites usually sell the drug testing kits for less than $10 and allow the buyer to choose whether they want to test for marijuana, cocaine or a host of other drugs. The buyer can select the test they think is needed. However, the results analysis process can be misleading for the buyer. For instance, a negative test result may alleviate a parent’s fears, when in actuality it could simply indicate that the child is actually using a different drug not covered by that test. Positive test results may be a false positive and do more harm than good when parents falsely accuse their child of using drugs. This is why experts recommend drug testing be left to medical professionals, no matter how tempting home drug testing kits might be. Parents who suspect their child is using drugs should first consult a doctor or counselor for advice.

When reading articles and information about Narconon on websites both friendly and unfriendly, there is a recurring question of the relationship that Narconon has with the Church of Scientology. Hopefully this post can succinctly answer that question. If there are still questions regarding the relationship that Narconon has with the Church of Scientology, we welcome your comments and questions. Our objective is to bring an increased level of transparency to the Narconon Stone Hawk organization, and the services that we provide.

Narconon is a service of the Association of Better Living through Education (ABLE). ABLE is a secular, non-profit umbrella under which several social services are coordinated. One of these services is dedicated to helping those with drug addiction, and providing drug abuse prevention education. That service is Narconon.

ABLE is funded and supported by the license fees it receives from its subordinate groups, of which Narconon is one. Funds are not passed from ABLE to the Church of Scientology, or from the Church of Scientology to ABLE. There are supporters of ABLE who are scientologists, but their decision to donate is a personal one, and not dictated or in any way required by the Church of Scientology.

Able is a secular service proudly provided by the Church of Scientology. Narconon is a service proudly provided by ABLE.

It is common for religious organizations to provide secular services to the community. A great example of this is St. John’s Hospital, which provides health care services without trying to convert their patients into Catholics, or requiring that their patients be Catholics. It is, however, a service provided by the Catholic church.

There is no requirement that Narconon staff members or students be either scientologists or practice scientology. Faith-based drug rehab services are available, however Narconon is not one of them. To facilitate the diverse religious needs of its students, Narconon Stone Hawk actively facilitates any student’s attendance at a religious meeting of any kind. It makes no difference if this is at a Baptist church, a Buddhist monestary, an Islamic mosque, or at a church of Scientology.

Narconon training routines and methods of treatment are similar to the training routines of Scientology. This is because they both utilize the techniques (which are as non-religious as psychoanalysis or any other modern method of therapy). When compared to a traditional 12-step program it is easy to see that the 12-step method requires religion, whereas Narconon merely acknowledges that faith is beneficial in the process of healing. This faith does not have to be Scientology, and Scientology is not promoted as the religion of choice by Narconon. It is a fact that many Narconon staff members are Scientologists, but many are also of other faiths. Narconon policy explicitly prohibits the promotion of any religion to students. Violation of this policy by staff members is treated in the same manner as a violation of any other policy.

Hopefully this short message has at least answered the fundamental questions that many people have about the relationship Narconon has with the Church of Scientology. In the future you can expect more messages from Narconon Stone Hawk in an effort to make clear how drug addiction treatment is provided, and what students can expect when obtaining treatment. We encourage constructive comments and questions to this and every post on this blog, so feel free to participate.

Learn how Drugs and other toxins are stored in the body, the health risks involved with that, and the health benefits of detoxification.

Drugs do in fact leave metabolites in fat or lipid tissue…

This is very educational talk all about detox and how it works by medical and detox professionals.

Small amounts, (of drugs) are lodged in tissues in the body, primarily fat tissue…these chemicals can store for many weeks, even up to many years.

For a rather technical description of the Narconon program by Dr. Alfonso Paredes, Member NN Int Science Advisory Board, and long term specialist in drug rehab. He has long been connected with UCLA and has published dozens of papers on drugs and drug rehab. Click here

They were “very impressed with the cleanliness”.

Albion and Battle Creek sauna facilities were inspected on March 8th, 2007 from 9:00am through 4:00pm by:

State of Michigan Department of Community Health and Bureau of Health Systems

MSW MPA Licensing Consultant - Division of Licensing and Certification

Ottowa Building
1st Floor
P.O. Box 30664
Lansing, MI 48909

**Telephone number removed at request of the State of Michigan**

The inspection was done in coordination with Mid-South Substance Abuse Commission

A complete report of their findings will be posted when it is delivered to Narconon Stone Hawk by the state of Michigan.

We have requested a COMPLETE inspection of both facilities by Michigan Department of Community Health and Bureau of Health Systems.

Recently, Narconon Stonehawk has been under attack by the Vince Daniels radio program. No drug rehabilitation program can work 100% of the time for 100% of its clients. It is not uncommon for those who refuse to be helped to blame the program rather than themselves. It is also very common for the parents who enable the addict to also blame the program rather than blame the individual. The truth is that many people enter a drug rehabilitation program to appease parents or the law and then deliberately leave or behave in a manner that gets them kicked out so they can continue to use drugs. Then, they turn around and say “narconon stinks, they’re full of BS, they are only interested in taking our money, they are abusive…etc.” which is just justification for the addict to go out and use drugs. The addict then continues to get to do what they want to do guilt free because they tried, but Narconon failed. Parents are naturally enablers, and would oftentimes not want to put the blame on themselves or the addict, but turn to saying there is something wrong with what Stone Hawk did. This sort of thing is very common in the drug rehab industry. Parents understandably get very angery when they spend a large sum of money on the hopes of treatment for thier children, and when they lose that money because the person is unwilling to be helped it is all too easy for them to take that anger out on the program.

Vince Daniels, for whatever reason, has a problem with scientologists. Because of his misconcepton that Narconon is teaches the religion of Scientology, he feels the need to attack it too. Narconon does not teach or practicethe religion of Scientology (or any other religion) in it’s drug rehab program. We do hope that the individual develops their own spirituality during the program, no matter what that spirituality is. The process of realizing their own person spiritual beliefs is part of the healing process. This is a part of both Narconon and traditional 12-step programs. Yet Vince daniels goes to great lengths to degrade a legitimate and effective drug treatment program that has saved the lives of thousands of people and families. What makes these attacks unfair is he only seeks out people who are dissatisfied with the program to speak. At no time does he bring in the comments or letters of those who swear by it. His website and radio show are filled with people who have terrible things to say about Stone Hawk, but these are all people, or parents of people, who have not successfully made it throught the program to no fault of Stone Hawk.

Drug addicts lie, parents of drug addicts believe their lies, these lies then go on the Vince Daniels Show. We respect the rights of Vince Daniels to print and say whatever he choses on his radio show and blog. This great nation was built on the rights to do as such. But, his biased and false beliefs prevent him from telling both sides of the story. Truth be told, Narconon Stonehawk has saved lives. It has brought destroyed families back together. People who stuck with the program and actually took it in lead lives of productivity when they were once hopeless. Approximately 75% of the people who enter the Narconon Program complete it with success. That means 25% of those who entered did not. Of course a small percentage of that 25% is going to have a voice speaking out against the program.

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