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===Training routines===

{{See also|Training routines (Scientology)}}
The remainder of the Narconon course uses Scientology's "[[Training routines (Scientology)|Training Routines]]" or "TRs".<ref name=NN-TR>{{cite web|title=The Narconon Therapeutic Training Routine course|url=http://narconontroisrivieres.org/narconon-program/therapeutic-training-routines-course/the-narconon-therapeutic-training-routines-course/|work=Narconon Trois-Rivièrs website|publisher=Narconon Trois-Rivièrs|access-date=1 February 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120211093406/http://narconontroisrivieres.org/narconon-program/therapeutic-training-routines-course/the-narconon-therapeutic-training-routines-course/|archive-date=11 February 2012}}</ref>{{r|cowan|p=29}}{{r|reitman|p=258}} They were originally devised by Hubbard to teach communications skills to Scientologists. In the Narconon variant, these courses claim to be designed to rehabilitate drug abusers.<ref name=NN-TR/> These routines sometimes include TR 8,<ref>Hubbard, Narconon ''Withdrawal Specialist Course''. Book 4b, 2004c edition. (pg. 221–236) Narconon Publication. [https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Stop-Narconon/Documents/withdrawal-specialist-excerpts.pdf Table of contents]</ref> which involves the individual commanding an ashtray to "stand up" and "sit down", and thanking it for doing so, as loudly as they can.<ref>Hubbard, Narconon ''Communication & Perception Course'' Book 4a, 2004 edition. (pg. 447–482) Narconon Publication</ref><ref>Joseph Mallia ''[http://www.holysmoke.org/cos/not-secret.htm "Inside the Church of Scientology; Sacred teachings not secret anymore"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060530063729/http://www.holysmoke.org/cos/not-secret.htm |date=30 May 2006 }}'' [[Boston Herald]] 4 March 1998 p. 025</ref> Former Scientologists say that the purpose of the drill is for the individual to "beam" their "intention" into the ashtray to make it move.<ref name="Reitman_TR8">{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/inside-scientology-103288/ |title=Inside Scientology |date=February 23, 2006 |first=Janet |last=Reitman |author-link=Janet Reitman |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090430200426/http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/9363363/inside_scientology/print |archive-date=April 30, 2009}}</ref>