Education and Employment

The educational level was comparable to some other drug rehabilitation programs. 20% of these clients had not completed high school. 80% had completed high school or above, 14% had gone to trade school or junior college after high school, 9% had completed college and 2% had post-graduate degrees such as a masters in business or science or a doctorate degree.

Work Patterns

About half of these clients were currently working. 60% report their usual pattern is to work full time, yet:

• 46% did not work in the last 30 days.
• Only 37% were currently employed.

Many clients had recently lost their jobs - being fired or leaving work due to their drug abuse problems.

Legal Involvement

Of the clients participating in this study:

• 22% admitted having engaged in illegal activity for profit in the last 30 days.
• On average, those who were currently engaged in illegal activities admitted to having done so 13 of the last 30 days.

From a longer Term View

• 81% of these Narconon clients had been incarcerated in their lifetime.
• 33% of these clients had been incarcerated for greater than a month.
• 13% had been incarcerated for greater than a year in their lifetimes.
• On average, they had been in jail 4.3 +/- 10.5 months in their lifetimes.

There is a major problem with illegal activities in this group. As described later, the Narconon program does have a very positive effect on these statistics.