Narconon in the News - If you have a link - send it to us to check and add
Last Update: March 12, 2014
There is such a massive amount of material about Narconon and their shoddy international practices on the internet, it's hard to know where to start. We provide some links here for the ongoing resource this site will now become..
- Narconon closed down repeatedly in the USA for Insurance fraud - most recently in September 2013 in Georgia
- Multiple fatalities from onsite drug overdoses (also in Georgia). Yes, onsite drug overdose at what Narconon Melbourne want to call an 'education facility' - far and above what a normal drug and rehab centre would encounter - far and above what one might expect at an éducation centre'
- 9% is a better estimate of the success rate. The 70% figure is an absolute nonsense and statistical lie. There is no peer reviewed or audited system to check the success rate. Narconon themselves have no procedure in place to track and check students for the years after they have left the facility.
- ALL Narconon facilities operate under the same corporate and educational structure. All Narconon facilities deliver an 8 step program - the first is drug withdrawal - the remaining 7 are essentially copy and paste of Scientology teachings.
- $1000 a week or more (Based on $28 000 cost divided by 4-6 months) is the cost of the program PLUS food and boarding. How is boarding paid for? - not out of the $1000 a week program. Narconon collect unemployment and welfare payments from all students to pay for their board and lodging. This is cold hearted money making at it's extreme. Using compromised people to make money, so they can try and meet their weekly income targets before reporting and distributing funds every Thursday (after the Thursday 2pm audit - yes, it's as regular as that) back up the chain to Narconon and Scientology.
- Drugs are routinely shipped into the facility, thrown over the fence or gate, smuggled in a shampoo bottle. Narconon Warburton have even had an onsite 'alcohol still' in operation so the students can produce their own alcohol.
- Many students are at the facility simply to 'tick the box' about having done rehab. Many have no desire to change, they are there because they have been funded by family or friends.
- Details about recent story in Georgia. September 25, 2013
- Dutch officials have put Narconon on warning that they are under "enhanced supervision" – and could even face closure - after spot checks raised concerns about patient safety.
- Drug rehab centers affiliated with the Church of Scientology have become the focus of multiple government investigations and civil lawsuits in the last two years, and one of the most disturbing cases involving those facilities is the one of Richard Teague in Michigan.
- Given the small number of studies and lack of data, no statistical analyses could be computed.....Thus, there is currently no reliable evidence for the effectiveness of Narconon as a primary or secondary drug prevention program.
- Narconon found to have been either ignorant about safety issues or they lied about the issues. July 2006
- Narconon CEO pleads with police to arrest someone in the possession of drugs.
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- Application by Narconon For Certification by the Board of Mental Health, State of Oklahoma 13 December 1991 - DENIED