Scientology is a religion, which has a strong moral and ethical value that offers very workable guidelines for self-improvement of the lives of others. By doing this you are following the essence of scientology teaching: " to go out and improve conditions to make this world a better place for all."(Scientology handbook) Scientology scriptures and practice adopt the use of two broad-base area's of significant social concern is drug rehabilitation and education. With this in mind you are able to see how dedicated they are in the reduction of criminality with efforts it farther safeguard the environments. The ultimate solution to crime is reforming these individuals with the techniques of Mr. Hubbard. Hubbard traces the cause of crime to the loss of self-respect. The consiqunes of this is disastrous because this amounts to individuals who have broken the contract with him-self. With these values Scientology's greatest impact on society is on a personal levels through the one-on-one interaction of social benefit programs. In 1966 Hubbard started one of the most widely known benefit programs for drug rehabilitation and public education called "Narconon." The word Narconon means no-narcosis or no drugs, this rehabilitation program uses a detoxification procedure. This procedure was originally developed for the use in scientology churches as a mean for overcoming chemical deposits in the body, this is usually the result of prior drug use that serve as a barrier to spiritual development.
Another social benefit program came to be, called Criminon. This program works with prison inmates and juveniles delinquents becoming productive member of society.
This programs consists of a series of supervised and self-directed courses that help program participants develop communication skills such as how to learn to study, identify traits of anti-social behavior while adopting a
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