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[NOTE: After it was discovered that Scientology's NarCONon is a quack
medical fraud with no scientific basis, the crooks were thrown out
of our children's schools. There's no telling how much damage the
norotious cult did to the kids who were subjected to their frauds.]
http://www.jointogether.org/sa/news/summaries/reader/0,1854,571381,00.html
School Based Narconon Program Under Fire
The Narconon Drug Prevention & Education program, offered free to
schools, is being challenged for incorporating questionable concepts
from the teachings of the Church of Scientology, the San Francisco
Chronicle reported June 9.
Some addiction experts called the program "irresponsible" and
"pseudoscience," charging that students are being introduced to
Scientology beliefs and methods without their knowledge.
The Narconon Drug Prevention & Education program, created by L. Ron
Hubbard, who founded Scientology, features some key church concepts.
Among them is that the body stores toxins, like drugs, indefinitely in
fat, where they wreak havoc on the mind through cravings and
flashbacks until "sweated" out. The anti-drug message also includes
church language and materials, critics say.
"Narconon, to me, is Scientology," said Lee Saltz, a drug counselor
with the Los Angeles school district in California, where the program
has been used by some schools for years. "We don't use their
curriculum because it's not grounded in science. But they bypass our
office and go directly to the schools. They're very persistent."
Narconon officials contend that the program is secular and that there
is a division between it and the Church of Scientology.
"It's our job to keep them separate," said Clark Carr, president of
Narconon International and a Scientologist. "We work full time to do
this. If we went into the school district as Scientology, with the
separation of church and state, it wasn't going to work. It would be
as if someone said, 'I have some things in the Bible I think would be
very helpful.' No, thank you. It's corporately and financially
separate, and that's appropriate. For us, the larger issue is that
kids need help. We're not in this for any other agenda."
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If you or a loved one needs help -- real help -- there are
a number of rehabilitation programs you can contact. The real
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6/10/2004
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