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Dec 9, 2008
Las Cruces nixes anti-drug program — Santa Fe New Mexican
Type: Press
Source: Santa Fe New Mexican
LAS CRUCES — The city of Las Cruces is ending an anti-drug program aimed at third-graders after learning it was backed by the Church of Scientology. The Drug-Free Marshal program started in late November. It had been presented to five schools, but was intended to be promoted eventually among all third-graders in the Las Cruces Public Schools. Mayor Ken Miyagishima says it wasn't his intention to promote the religion in the schools. The mayor says he was approached this summer by ...
Item contributed by: Martin Poulter
Dec 8, 2008
Claude Lapointe revient de loin — Le Journal de Québec
Type: Press
Author(s): Albert Ladouceur
Source: Le Journal de Québec
Le match des vieilles jambes du Canadien et des Nordiques représentait plus qu’une rencontre amicale pour Claude Lapointe. Elle se voulait sa première sortie dans son ancien milieu de travail à quelques semaines de la fin d’une longue cure de désintoxication. Grâce à l’aide et aux outils que lui a remis le centre de réhabilitation pour toxicomanes Narconon, de Trois-Rivières, Lapointe croit qu’il a brisé sa dépendance à la cocaïne, cette poudre blanche qui a mis fin à sa carrière et ...
Dec 7, 2008
Mayor abandons anti-drug program affiliated with Church of Scientology — Las Cruces Sun News (New Mexico)
Type: Press
Author(s): Ashley Meeks
Source: Las Cruces Sun News (New Mexico)
LAS CRUCES — The city is immediately ending an anti-drug program aimed at third-graders after it was revealed it was created and bankrolled by the Church of Scientology. The "Drug-Free Marshal" program, started in late November, had only been presented to five schools but was intended to be promoted eventually among all third-graders in the Las Cruces Public Schools. Mayor Ken Miyagishima apologized Saturday and said it was not his intention to promote the religion. The mayor said he was approached ...
Nov 19, 2008
Le pouvoir caché — Canal D (Quebec)
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Oct 31, 2008
Narconon drug rehab home in Newport Beach to shut down — Orange County Register
Type: Press
Author(s): Jeff Overley
Source: Orange County Register
27-bed triplex subject of much community anger over years. NEWPORT BEACH — The largest drug rehabilitation home in town, a longtime magnet for community anger, has agreed to shut down, officials said Friday. The 27-bed beachfront triplex operated by Narconon will close after its state license expires in February 2010, said Dan Carlton, a company attorney. The company also agrees not to challenge a new city law restricting rehab homes, said Dave Kiff, assistant city manager. "We've been looking for a ...
Oct 30, 2008
Grand opening held for new Narconon center in Harlingen — Valley Morning Star (Texas)
Type: Press
Author(s): Daisy Martinez
Source: Valley Morning Star (Texas)
HARLINGEN - The grand opening of the new center for the Narconon South Texas Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation and Education Program was held Thursday. The center is at 17697 ABD Road off of Rangerville Road. Gail Thomason, spokesperson for the center, said it has gone from a mobile home to a 17-acre facility. Thomason said in a news release that the Narconon program helps drug addicts "who have hit rock bottom to achieve control of their lives and return to their ...
Oct 1, 2008
Mission: Investigate! — Sveriges Television (Sweden)
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Oct 1, 2008
Second Chance Center Preliminary Process Evaluation Study — University of New Mexico
Oct 1, 2008
Swedish tax money benefits Scientology — The Local (Sweden)
Type: Press
Author(s): David Landes
Source: The Local (Sweden)
Swedish taxpayers have been indirectly supporting the Church of Scientology though local government contracts given to front organizations with ties to the group. According to a Sveriges Television (SVT) documentary set to air on Wednesday, 156 of Sweden’s 290 local councils have contributed more than 10 million kronor ($1.4 million) to the Scientology movement. Much of the money has been channeled through contracts with Narconon, a company which offers a controversial treatment method for drug addicts. According to SVT, Narconon also ...
Sep 30, 2008
Questions raised over Narconon lease on historic building — Australia Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) News
Type: Press
Author(s): Samantha Donovan
Source: Australia Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) News
The Mental Health Council of Australia has strongly criticised Victoria's national parks authority for leasing a historic public building rent free to a drug treatment service connected to Scientology. The council's chief executive says a group with secret treatment methods should not be able to use a public asset at a time when Australia is desperate for community treatment centres. But Narcanon, which follows the precepts of Scientology founder L Ron Hubbard, says it is just as entitled to lease O'Shannassy ...
Sep 29, 2008
Scientologists living rent-free in one of Victoria's grand lodges — The Age (Australia)
Type: Press
Author(s): Royce Millar
Source: The Age (Australia)
MENTAL health experts and the State Opposition have called for a rethink of Victoria's public land management with the revelation that a Scientologist-linked drug treatment group has exclusive, rent-free control of one of the state's grand historic properties. Narconon, a drug treatment program based on teachings of Church of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, operates a secretive and secluded rehabilitation centre at O'Shannassy Lodge, east of Warburton in the Yarra Ranges. The lodge is one of hundreds of properties managed by ...
Sep 26, 2008
Obituaries: Charles Patrick "Chuck" Neal — Sonoma Index-Register
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Sep 21, 2008
Cult fiction: Scientologist church plans blitz of Irish schools under the guise of charity group — Sunday World (Ireland)
Sep 14, 2008
Therapy facility takes Narconon's place — Battle Creek Enquirer
More: battlecreekenquirer.com
Type: Press
Author(s): Elizabeth Willis
Source: Battle Creek Enquirer
PENNFIELD TOWNSHIP — A new private-pay substance abuse inpatient facility has begun operation at the facilities formerly occupied by Narconon Stone Hawk, a drug and alcohol rehabilitation center with links to Scientology. Operators of the new organization, A Forever Recovery, said they are not associated with either Narconon or Scientology, although some employees worked for and managed Narconon Stone Hawk. "I know there's been a lot of negativity surrounding Narconon and I want people to know it's not Narconon anymore," said ...
Sep 8, 2008
A month for turning clean and sober — Gloucester County Times
More: nj.com
Type: Press
Author(s): Carly Romalino
Source: Gloucester County Times
September is National Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery month, but for millions of reformed abusers of alcohol and other substances, the cause for celebration was a hard road. According to Derry Hallmark, recovered addict turned Certified Chemical Dependency Counselor at Oklahoma-based Narconon Arrowhead, only one in 10 addicts is successful in rehabilitation programs. The success rate for those addicted to drugs like crack, he said, is only about one in five people. "All drug use starts as an attempt to solve ...
Aug 17, 2008
Obituaries: Jon Alan Stearman — Orange County Register
Aug 13, 2008
As Scientology expands, so do its naysayers — Seattle Weekly
Type: Press
Author(s): Brian Miller
Source: Seattle Weekly
Masked protesters are taking to Seattle streets as the church eyes new facilities downtown and in lower Queen Anne. Motorists stuck on Mercer Street this summer have been treated to an odd overhead sight as they crawl under Aurora Avenue toward I-5. Wielding banners and signs, a small band of protesters has appeared on certain evenings, waving at drivers below and encouraging them to honk if they hate Xenu. On other nights, farther west in the Uptown neighborhood, the same merry ...
Jul 29, 2008
Kazakhstan authorities oust foreign missionaries — Interfax
Type: Press
Source: Interfax
29 July 2008, 13:00 Kazakhstan authorities oust foreign missionaries Astana, July 29, Interfax - Foreign missionaries have been expelled from Kazakhstan, country's Justice Minister Zagipa Baliyeva said. "A large number of foreigners from the United States, Georgia, South Korea and Japan were expelled from the country by law enforcement authorities following court decisions for violating regulations while working as missionaries without the required registration," the minister said at a government session on Tuesday. In particular, "head of Narconon, an organization associated ...
Jul 24, 2008
Counterfeit Dreams - Chapter 16: Nine Lives, Part Two
Jul 19, 2008
Scientology Cult Fraudulently Claims "Medal of Valor" from the Fire Department of New York
Type: Blog
The Scientology cult loudly boasts that after 9/11, its "Volunteer Ministers" were awarded the Fire Department of New York's highest honor, the "Medal of Valor." This is not only a lie, but an insult to the memory all the brave firefighters who died in the line of duty and were awarded this Medal posthumously. Dozens of Scientology web site and blogs brazenly make this claim, in a continuing effort to legitimize their cult. Scientology's "Volunteer Ministers," or more accurately, "Vulture Ministers," ...
Jul 8, 2008
Attorney: City can't trump state authority over Narconon — Northwest Florida Daily News
Type: Press
Source: Northwest Florida Daily News
DESTIN — Destin's hands are tied if Narconon Gulf Coast wants to open a home for recovering addicts in a city neighborhood, a city attorney says. "I'm aware that you're tempted to shoot the messenger on this because it may not be popular with all the residents," City Land-Use Attorney Scott Shirley told the City Council Monday. "It's something the city's required to accept." Narconon Gulf Coast wants to open a "community residential home" for recovering addicts, in addition to the ...
Jun 27, 2008
Rehab center selling lake site for $3.69M — Battle Creek Enquirer
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Type: Press
Author(s): Elizabeth Huff
Source: Battle Creek Enquirer
PENNFIELD TOWNSHIP — A Scientology-based drug and alcohol rehabilitation center has listed its St. Mary's Lake property for sale for $3.69 million. Realtor Roger Molenaar of Prudential Preferred Realtors said Narconon Stone Hawk, at 216 and 218 St. Mary's Lake Road, has been listed online for a couple weeks. On Thursday, he said no prospective buyers have inquired yet about the buildings. "We're just getting the marketing out to different corporations because it would be ideal for corporation or church retreats," ...
Jun 17, 2008
Destin not giving up on blocking Narconon — The Destin Log
More: nwfdailynews.com
Type: Press
Author(s): Fraser Sherman
Source: The Destin Log
New court rulings in South Florida may give Destin the power to stop Narconon Gulf Coast from opening a halfway house in a single-family neighborhood, City Councilor Dewey Destin says. “Give the land-use attorney the chance to do his job,” Councilor Destin told the council Monday, after which the council voted unanimously to have Land-Use Attorney Scott Shirley study the Boca Raton cases in question. The drug treatment program Narconon has been controversial because of its ties to Scientology, and became ...
Jun 4, 2008
Another drug program to open in Destin? — WJHG Channel 7
Type: Press
Author(s): Alex Denis
Source: WJHG Channel 7
Some residents in Destin are upset about the possibility of another Narconon drug rehabilitation center opening in their neighborhood. There's already one center operating in a residential area, and apparently some homeowners believe the program is too close to home, but the residents may not have a choice in the opening of the new facility. These trees hide the Narconon Gulf Cost a safe haven for recovering addicts. Debbie Ross and her husband converted their home off of scenic 98 into ...
Jun 3, 2008
Attorney: Destin’s hands are tied on Narconon in the neighborhood — Northwest Florida Daily News
Type: Press
Author(s): Fraser Sherman
Source: Northwest Florida Daily News
Destin can’t stop Narconon Gulf Coast from opening a “community residential home” for recovering addicts as long as the home abides by Florida law, the city’s land-use attorney says. “The state has made a decision to encourage the treatment of individuals â€Â¦ in a community homelike setting,” Land Use Attorney Scott Shirley told the City Council Monday, and that pre-empts the city’s zoning and even homeowner association covenants. It wasn’t what the council wanted to hear. “If I put myself in ...
Jun 3, 2008
Council: Narconon not city's business — Northwest Florida Daily News
Type: Press
Author(s): Fraser Sherman
Source: Northwest Florida Daily News
The Narconon drug-treatment program can open a "community residential home" for recovering addicts in a single-family neighborhood, city staffers say. "We have determined that they are abiding by the state statutes," said Destin Planning Manager Ken Gallander. "Now they have to get licensing from the state." Debbie Ross of Narconon Gulf Coast said that while Narconon has looked at a home in the Emerald Breeze subdivision off Emerald Coast Parkway, it has no firm plans, no contract and no lease. "We ...
May 27, 2008
Narconon rehab may land in Destin neighborhood — The Destin Log
Type: Press
Author(s): Fraser Sherman
Source: The Destin Log
It’s legal for the Narconon drug-treatment program to open a “community residential home” for recovering addicts in a Destin single-family neighborhood, city staffers say. “We have determined that they are abiding by the state statutes,” Current Planning Manager Ken Gallander told The Log. “Now they have to get licensing from the state.” Debbie Ross of Narconon Gulf Coast said that while Narconon has looked at the Emerald Breeze subdivision off Emerald Coast Parkway as a possible site, they have no firm ...
May 25, 2008
Dr. David S. Touretzky, Mark Ebner interview on Glosslip — Glosslip
Type: Radio
Author(s): Dawn Olsen
Source: Glosslip
Scientology expert and outspoken critic Dave Touretzky will be joining Glosslip to discuss his knowledge of LRH's controversial "Study Tech" and the drug addiction program Narconon. The second hour we'll be talking to best-selling author and Scientology critic Mark Ebner of the popular website Hollywood Interrupted. Ebner has written countless articles on the CoS and has been victimized by the CoS.
May 24, 2008
Intergalactic tyrants beware: the boys in blue are after you — The Guardian (UK)
Type: Commentary
Author(s): Marina Hyde
Source: The Guardian (UK)
Anyone who thinks the police aren't interested in diversity will be amazed by the links they have built with Scientology Once again our great nation has entertained the world, putting on two stunning exhibition matches this week. First was the Champions League final, between the clubs who finished first and second in our very own Premier League. The second - and whether the parties were quite as closely matched as Manchester United and Chelsea will be for you to decide - ...
May 23, 2008
Rehab homes file for permits — Daily Pilot (Newport Beach & Costa Mesa)
Type: Press
Author(s): Brianna Bailey
Source: Daily Pilot (Newport Beach & Costa Mesa)
Most of the local recovery facilities apply for use permits to remain open. Those that did not may stay open for one year. At least two drug and alcohol recovery home operators, including Newport’s second largest, have chosen not to apply for use permits with the city by the Thursday deadline. City officials had received 30 applications from rehabilitation homes as the deadline closed in late Thursday afternoon. “The majority of homes have submitted applications at this point, albeit most with ...
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