Narconon
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Ordered To Move Patients, End Treatments - 6 February 92
Narconon Chilocco New Life Center was ordered Friday (Jan. 31)
to move its patients out and stop providing drug and alcohol
abuse treatment in 10 days.
Oklahoma County District Judge John Amick set the Feb. 10
deadline after he denied another request from the unlicensed
facility to remain open and admit new patients.
Narconon Chilocco lost a request earlier this (last) week for
a court stay to continue operating while it appeals a decision by
the Oklahoma Board of Mental health and Substance Abuse Services
that denied certification for its treatment program.
Amick also dismissed a temporary restraining order he issued
last year to allow Narconon Chilocco to treat up to 40 patients
while its certification application was pending.
With the mental health board denying certification and the
denial of Narconon Chilocco's request for a stay, the temporary
restraining order no longer was applicable, lawyers for the state
said.
The center could appeal to the state Supreme Court for another
district court hearing.
Harry Woods Jr., a lawyer for Narconon Chilocco, said he is
discussing options with officials at the facility, at the old
Chilocco Indian school about six miles north of Newkirk.
Three pending legal matters concerning Narconon Chilocco are
two appeals seeking to overturn the mental health board's
decision and a hearing later this month on a state petition for a
permanent injunction to close Narconon Chilocco.
An appeal decision could take two years.
Guy Hurst, a lawyer with the attorney general's office, said
the mental health department will offer Narconon Chilocco help in
relocating its 15 patients.
Narconon Chilocco began accepting patients in February 1990
and did not seek state certification until state officials filed
papers in Kay County District Court to close it. (The above was
reprinted from the Saturday Oklahoman & Times, Feb. 1, 1992
with permission)
In an Oklahoman story of Tuesday, Feb. 4, Narconon
spokesmen are quoted as saying that they intend to stay at the
facility and continue legal attempts to keep the facility open.
Attorney General's lawyer Guy Hurst said Tuesday afternoon
that there will be another hearing in Oklahoma District Court
Judge Leamon Freeman's court today, but that he had not yet seen
the pleadings.
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By Michael McNutt, Enid Bureau
The Daily Oklahoman
February 6, 1992
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