Editing Narconon (section)

===Niacin===

According to Narconon, vitamin and mineral supplements are needed to address nutritional deficiencies and offset nutrient loss due to sweating. Other key elements in the program are the use of [[Niacin (substance)|niacin]], which Hubbard believed to increase free fatty acid mobilization, and the inclusion of polyunsaturated fats that he thought to increase the excretion rate of some toxin compounds. Together with a proper amount of sleep, this regime is thought by Narconon to mobilize and eliminate long-term stored toxins.<ref name="Hubbard's Drug Rehabilitation Program"/>

Narconon's "drug bomb" includes a niacin [[Dose (biochemistry)|dose]] of 4000&nbsp;mg/day.<ref>{{cite web|title=First Step Program / The useful tool to help others be drug free, at your disposal / What is the Drug Bomb?|url=http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/605/narcononscientologydrug.jpg|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131105120044/http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/605/narcononscientologydrug.jpg|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 5, 2013|publisher=Narconon|quote="Drug Bomb" consists of: 1000mg of [niacin]. This helps counteract any mental disturbance. ... The formula should be given four times a day.}}</ref> The risk to patients of taking high-dose niacin is one reason why medical experts assessing the Narconon program have found that it is a danger to patients; the program has been banned in a number of jurisdictions including Quebec and [[France]] as a result.<ref name="Latour" />

Because Narconon doctrines dictate that patients undergoing its program exhibit physical symptoms relating to the drugs that are (supposedly) being "sweated out," and because Narconon's staff are not medically qualified or typically qualified in orthodox drug rehabilitation, there is a risk that serious medical symptoms—from niacin [[overdose]] or from other causes—may be misinterpreted by Narconon staff as the desirable effects of detoxification:<ref name="ffact1" />

{{Blockquote|text=The Narconon Program exposes its patients to the risk of delayed withdrawal phenomena such as [[seizures]], [[delirium]] and/or [[hallucinations]]. {{omission}} The Narconon program presents a potential risk to the patients of the Narconon program that delayed withdrawal phenomena such as seizures, delirium or hallucination that are occasionally seen several days after cessation of drugs such as benzodiazepines, may be misinterpreted by Narconon's non-medical staff as the effect of mobilizing the drug from fat during the sauna sweat-out procedure period. There is also a potential risk that the reported re-experience of the abused drugs' effect during the sauna sweat-out program may be the result of misinterpreted symptoms of [[hyperthermia]] or [[electrolyte imbalance]] {{omission}}}}