Scientology® horse
pills for drug withdrawal
Zurich, Switzerland
by Hugo Stamm
Scientologists lure addicts with drug withdrawal flyers from
Narconon.®
A Zurich woman fled the rehabilitation center before she was
scheduled to.
They go looking for customers in the Zurich drug scene and
distribute flyers on public land: Narconon's staff,
Scientologists as a rule, seek clients who are ready for
withdrawal and to enter therapy. One of the people dazzled
by the fantastic promises of success from the Narconon
people was a 45-year-old Zurich woman with alcohol
problems; she agreed to go into the Narconon Center at
Waldstatt, AR, for six months of rehabilitation.
"It was not until after a week that I noticed that the center had
something to do with Scientology and was applying Ron
Hubbard's methods," she said. When she brought that to the
attention of the director, Barbara Volkart, she said the
director denied there was any connection between Narconon
and Scientology. Narconon President Ursula Suess asserted,
in contrast, that their participants are told that Narconon
works with the methods of the Scientology founder Hubbard.
The fact is that the word "Scientology" does not appear
anywhere on the flyers, in the documents or on the internet
home page.
Although the woman was critically disposed towards
Scientology, she did not stop her therapy, but persisted in it.
She hoped for physical and mental recuperation from the
special Purification program, which Narconon propagates as
a "miracle program." But first, the Zurich woman had to do
exercises for four weeks which are similar to the
Communication course by Ron Hubbard. "It was horrible, we
had to stare in each others eyes for hours, talk to an ashtray,
and answer the same questions hundreds of times, like, "Do
birds fly?" said the woman. She regarded the exercises as a
waste of time. Besides the course, almost everyday she had
to cook, wash and clean. Looking back on it, the Zurich
woman thinks the daily rate of 130 franks was too high, under
those circumstances.
In contrast to that, Narconon President Ursula Suess asserted
that the work time was limited to one hour duration per day.
The woman from Zurich then concentrated her hopes on the
Purification program. "I had to sit through a total of four to
four and a quarter hours in the sauna daily," she said. In this
manner, her hope for a "miracle" soon gave way to cold
reality. Although the sauna sessions weakened her, she was
hardly left with any time to recover from them. Besides that,
she had to ingest piles of vitamin tables, up to 3,000
milligrams of niacin Vitamin B per day. "At the end of the
program - the dose had been gradually increased - we had to
take 45 tablets," the woman stated. She said she could hardly
swallow that many capsules, her stomach began to rebel, and
some of the capsules would not stay down.
In addition to that were problems with blood pressure. "I was
always getting dizzy, I had circulation problems, and even fell
down a couple of times." She said she tried to eat a lot, but
her stomach often went on strike. So the already petite
woman shed several kilograms in four weeks. "Every morning
I was worn out, and much more tired than before the
Purification program."
She had enough after the Purification program and wanted to
stop her therapy right then. But the Scientologists worked at
her mulishly. They told her she would be passing up the
opportunity to become a new person. She finally had the
strength, after a week, to pack her things and leave the
rehabilitation center against the objections of the Narconon
people. Since then, the Zurich woman said, she has often
been contacted by Narconon people and Scientologists who
try to talk her back into therapy.
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Subject: Protecting witnesses from Scientology
Protecting sources
A complaint against the "Tages-Anzeiger" was dismissed
Zurich, Switzerland
sda. Journalists do not have to reveal their sources even if
those affected by the accusations of the informant are not able
to respond without being aware of his identity. Protecting the
source in founded cases takes precedence over the obligation
to complete revelation of sources.
With that the Press Council dismissed a complaint by the
Narconon Association against an article by sect specialist
Hugo Stamm in the "Tages-Anzeiger" about the controversial
drug therapy at Narconon. In it was quoted an anonymous
informant who ended her therapy because, in her opinion,
questionable methods were being used. The president of
Narconon filed a complaint against this article with the Press
Council.
It accused Stamm in particular of having had no
direct contact with the person cited and of using non-genuine
quotes. The Press Council found, on information presented to
it by the newspaper, that Stamm himself had spoken with the
informant. The journalist subsequently confronted the
complainant with the informant's most serious accusations and
took her most important answers for his article. In addition
Stamm, correctly, refused to reveal the identity of his
informant to Narconon. This was, according to statements
from the "Tages-Anzeiger," due to annoyances from
representatives from the area of Narconon and Scientology in
connection to the publication of the article.
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