Narconon of Georgia  

Narconon Discovers Early Drug Education Lecture by Founder, Willy Benitez

Before drug education is schools, before Nancy Regan's "Just Say No", before D.A.R.E., before the cocaine explosion in the 80's and the methamphetamine explosion in the 90's, one passionate yet soft-spoken young man realized that the best cure for drug addiction was actually drug education.

It was April, 1968, and Bill Benitez was enjoying his second year drug free and first year out of Arizona State Prison where he had founded a new drug rehabilitation program – Narconon. Already he recognized rehab was only part of it. He and other graduates needed to help children learn how to avoid this horror. So here he was at Scottsdale High School, giving one of the first “drug education” lectures recorded anywhere.

"Cataloguing its archives," comments Mary Rieser, Executive Director of Narconon Drug Rehab Atlanta Recovery Center. "Narconon staff recently uncovered this recorded lecture. It is literally historic and a very, very interesting document. It reveals that much of what Narconon drug educators and others have worked decades to codify as effective was recognized intuitively by Benitez from the outset."

“Running through your beautiful minds,” he said to those high school youths, “you may be wondering why a lecture on narcotics addiction?” Of course, drugs were narcotics then, not drugs. In a modest but confident manner, Willy went on to describe how even right then drugs, especially LSD, were being promoted to them by international magazines.

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