Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Drug Treatment – Scientology Style

One of the most lucrative addiction treatment rehabs on earth is the Scientology Rehab centers - Narconon. Their International web site boasts “We have over 100 drug rehab centers and drug prevention/education centers around the world, and we have helped millions of people.” With so many deceptive and fraudulent claims, one must examine and separate fact from fiction.

Scientology’s statement “we have helped millions of people” is an undefined claim that begs clarification and expose. With exaggerated and fraudulent success rates promoted to unwary, vulnerable victims, the exploitation of desperate addicts continues to harm and kill. So what exactly are they claiming with promotions like, “Thus, the Narconon program is neither a psychiatric nor medical, but a social education model of rehabilitation?”

http://www.examiner.com/article/drug-treatment-scientology-style

In the Narconon sauna Purification Rundown book, Clear Mind Clean Body, L. Ron Hubbard writes that all drugs are “essentially poisons, including tranquilizers and other medicinal drugs, and for those who have had drugs of any kind, there is no other rescue that is effective,” referring to the Narconon detoxification program. Narconon claims that all drugs are poisonous and remain in the body permanently — claims that are thoroughly discredited by modern science.

Psychiatric drugs are seen differently. Scientology and Narconon forbid the use of all psychiatric drugs and they work to prevent non-Scientologists from using them as well. Scientologists are vehemently opposed to all forms of psychiatry — not just for themselves, but for everyone. Since drugs are prescribed for serious medical conditions, including epilepsy and Graves’ disease and many other diagnosed medical conditions, they help the suffering cope and function in society, and these individuals are at serious risk if they stop taking the medication.

The Church of Scientology even today still publishes claims by Hubbard that the reactive mind “is the only thing in the human being which can produce … arthritis, bursitis, asthma, allergies, sinusitis, coronary trouble, high blood pressure, and so on, down the whole catalog of psychosomatic ills.” Thus, only Scientology auditing sessions can rid a person of these medical ailments.

The Narconon staff, who are also Scientologists, are well aware that the only way for a Narconon patient to remain clean and sober, according to L. Ron Hubbard, is to enroll in the “NED Drug Rundown” offered only at the Church of Scientology.

Scientology’s own words about the “NED Drug Rundown” say: “On this rundown, the harmful effects of drugs are erased and a person is freed from the compulsion or need to take drugs. This service handles drugs and the real reason a person started taking them in the first place.”
“Addressing drugs with NED technology removes the barriers that prevent progress up THE BRIDGE levels. It is a vital step on your NED program.”

What these quotations imply is that the Narconon program does NOT erase the harmful effects of drugs, nor does it free a patient from the compulsion or need to take drugs! Perhaps this is why the Narconon-promoted success rate of 70 to 90% is purely imaginary and in reality the failure rate is 90%.

Drug Treatment – Pyramid Style:

A few months at a Scientology Rehab will cost about 25-30 thousand dollars, with no set or scheduled duration of so-called treatment. In their dogma“It takes as long as it takes” a patient enters the program and after completing a regiment of Scientology Training Routines and Auditing Sessions, they’re good to go, and be a productive member of society, as per the Case Supervisor’s sign off on the patient’s confidential file.

Prior to completing the Narconon program, the patient (student, as Scientology calls them), is groomed to be a staff member. After a final IQ Test and Scientology Personality Test, the theater of employment is set for acceptance. Many times the victim is hired as a volunteer, with no remuneration – only a bed and food. The patients, who do manage to escape the Cult’s clutches, are encouraged to take the Field Staff Member’s (FSM) course. Once completed, with Certificate in hand, the patient can now leave and begin hustling more vulnerable victims back into the Scientology Rehab.

The FSM earns 10% of the $30,000 Narconon fee, with some recruiting several per week. Indeed a lucrative example of pushing their Scientology religion into the “Secular” community, as in “Expansion” of Scientology to clear the planet of evil and all who not believe.

The majority of Narconon graduates relapse back into the chains of addiction soon after leaving and the cycle of addiction takes a devastating toll on all concerned, including family members and friends.

On April 17, 2012 Jocelyn Ouellet reported that the Mauricie and Central-Quebec Health and Social Services Agency ordered Narconon to cease its activities and to relocate the twenty-four residents who were there. Seventeen of them were transferred to Narconon centers in the United States. The organization has ten days to send its comments to the Agency, which will then issue a final decision. The center will then have sixty days to contest the decision before the Quebec administrative court.


The Quebec Accreditation Council identified forty-six deficiencies, twenty-six of them considered high-risk. One of the procedures that represented a health risk is the sauna sweating sessions combined with massive doses of vitamins.

Marc Lacour also confirmed that the regional complaints commissioner has received a certain number of complaints about Narconon. Clients who wanted to end their stay prematurely complained that their identity cards, passports, and money were taken and withheld to make departing more complicated.



Two recent deaths at Narconon Arrowhead in Oklahoma, have initiated investigations by the Sheriff’s Department, with ongoing investigations.

Employing patient grads as certified caregivers, is proving to be a deadly practice and governments are now taking a close look at further inspections and Accreditation requirements.

http://narcononcanada.com/2012/05/23/549/

David Edgar Love

Friday, May 18, 2012

Wearing of Masks Banned – Quebec Law


The city of Montreal passed a bylaw, which makes it illegal to wear a mask during a public demonstration without "a valid excuse" and requires organizers to provide authorities with demonstration routes, could go into effect as early as Saturday. Montreal police chief Marc Parent told city council on Friday his force would use "discretion" when applying the law. - Global News.

Today, May 18, 2012, the Quebec Provincial Government passed a new law that may infringe on the Quebec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms following several weeks of Quebec students protesting tuition hikes. Indeed, the government admits it “had to act harshly.”
http://www.examiner.com/article/wearing-of-masks-banned-quebec-new-laws-1

Late this afternoon, the Quebec legislature adopted a historic, controversial emergency law aimed at restoring order in the province and in particular, Quebec City and Montreal.

The new law will put the current school year on hold at institutions affected by the student strikes and steep fines for those who continue to block access to schools when they open again this year.


However, the students vow to oppose the government’s tough new laws and escalate their campaign, including civil disobedience. Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois, head of the militant CLASSE student group, told a news conference that he would be prepared to go to prison.

The head of Quebec's bar association said the proposals would severely restrict basic constitutional rights, which could violate basic rights in the Quebec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms. The new law, which the Liberals say would expire in July 2013, bans protests on or within 50 meters (yards) of the grounds of a university or college and individuals breaking the law could be fined up to C$35,000 while student associations face penalties of up to C$125,000.


Under the Quebec Charter, citizens have fundamental rights - 1. Every human being has a right to life, and to personal security, inviolability and freedom. 3. Every person is the possessor of the fundamental freedoms, including freedom of conscience, freedom of religion, freedom of opinion, freedom of expression, freedom of peaceful assembly and freedom of association.

9.1. In exercising his fundamental freedoms and rights, a person shall maintain a proper regard for democratic values, public order and the general well-being of the citizens of Québec.

In this respect, the scope of the freedoms and rights, and limits to their exercise, may be fixed by law.

In reference to the Charter, freedom of opinion, freedom of expression, and freedom of peaceful assembly is a legal and given right, a person shall maintain a proper regard for democratic values, public order and the general well-being of the citizens of Québec.

Furthermore, the city of Montreal passed a bylaw, which makes it illegal to wear a mask during a public demonstration without "a valid excuse" and requires organizers to provide authorities with demonstration routes, could go into effect as early as Saturday.


Earlier today, the writer was contacted by a member of a mask wearing Anonymous group who was concerned about the monthly protests in front of the Montreal Church of Scientology. About 10-20 protesters meet every month in a peaceful demonstration across the street from the Church’s Papineau location downtown Montreal. In view of the demonstration not being a march or blocking pedestrians and the general public from enjoying their Charter rights of “public order and the general well-being of the citizens of Québec”, Montreal police chief Marc Parent, made it clear to Montreal city council his force would use "discretion" when applying the law.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfhhVCKpl18

The new anti-mask law should not affect Montreal Anonymous and they will continue to protest peacefully and freely, without fear of breaking any laws.

Perhaps contacting the police as they usually do before a protest date would be prudent. 

David Edgar Love

Narconon “Say No to Drugs” Campaign

Perhaps one of the most dangerous practices at Narconon Trois-Rivieres, is their Say No To Drugs campaign instituted by the Church of Scientology. No other part of the Narconon program leads to suicidal attempts and deaths as this campaign of “Say No To Drugs”.



A close second is the Narconon Sauna program, also known as the Purification Rundown, “Clear Mind Clean Body”, causing severe harm, especially to those who have compromised livers due to drug addiction and alcoholism. However, aside from the ones who are taken to hospital emergency while in the sauna, harm to internal organs may not manifest for months or even years down the road – - with liver failure comes a painful death.

According to the British Liver Trust (BLT), liver disease is now the fifth largest cause of death in the UK, after heart disease, cancer, stroke and respiratory disease. The report says that liver disease kills more people than diabetes and road deaths combined.

Chronic liver diseases such as cirrhosis and fibrosis are the result of continuous long-term liver damage. They may be the final stage of alcoholic liver disease but there are other causes, such as when a virus damages the liver. Fibrosis describes scarring of the liver, and cirrhosis describes scarring and the formation in the liver of hard irregular bumps called nodules. These conditions stop the liver from functioning properly. The damage is irreversible.

Viral liver disease, hepatitis literally means “liver inflammation”. This can have several causes, including viruses (most commonly the hepatitis viruses but there are others), alcohol or drugs (both prescription drugs and illegal). The term “viral liver disease” refers to the forms of liver inflammation following viral infection, which can range from acute hepatitis or chronic hepatitis, fibrosis and cirrhosis, and liver cancer.

Many patients, who endure the Narconon program, ingesting dangerous, toxic amounts of Niacin, as prescribed by unqualified Narconon staff who assess, diagnose and treat patients, have detrimental effects on patients, both immediate and eventually terminal.


At Narconon Trois-Rivières and other Narconon centers, physician-prescribed medications have been withheld from patients, with detrimental consequences. Some have attempted suicide and others had seizures while in Narconon staff care. In 1984, a 34-year-old French woman named Jocelyne Dorfmann died from an untreated epilepsy crisis while undergoing treatment at a Narconon center in Grancey-sur-Ource (near Dijon). The assistant director of that center was sentenced for lack of assistance to a person in danger and the Narconon facility was closed. In Italy, a 33-year-old Italian female patient of the Narconon center in Torre dell’Orso died under similar conditions in 2002.

Medications were withheld at Narconon Trois-Rivières on several occasions, which the writer will address later in this article.

In the Narconon sauna Purification Rundown book, Clear Mind Clean Body, L. Ron Hubbard writes that all drugs are “essentially poisons, including tranquilizers and other medicinal drugs, and for those who have had drugs of any kind, there is no other rescue that is effective,” referring to the Narconon detoxification program. Narconon claims that all drugs are poisonous and remain in the body permanently — claims that are thoroughly discredited by modern science.

Psychiatric drugs are seen differently. Scientology and Narconon forbid the use of all psychiatric drugs and they work to prevent non-Scientologists from using them as well. Scientologists are vehemently opposed to all forms of psychiatry — not just for themselves, but for everyone. Since drugs are prescribed for serious medical conditions, including epilepsy and Graves’ disease and many other diagnosed medical conditions, they help the suffering cope and function in society, and these individuals are at serious risk if they stop taking the medication.



If a Narconon patient is taking prescribed Tylenol #3 or even aspirin, the patient’s program therapy is halted and the patient’s file is shelved. Scientology-Narconon belief doctrines about auditing sessions (Narconon Book 4a – Objectives) claims, for example, that aspirin will “inhibit the ability of the thetan to create mental image pictures” and render the thetan as a result “stupid, blank, forgetful, delusive and irresponsible.” “He gets into a ‘wooden’ sort of state, unfeeling, insensitive, unable and definitely not trustworthy, a menace to his fellows actually.” Students are not permitted “on course” (to undergo Scientology training or receive Scientology services) if they have taken aspirin within the previous 24 hours.

The Church of Scientology even today still publishes claims by Hubbard that the reactive mind “is the only thing in the human being which can produce … arthritis, bursitis, asthma, allergies, sinusitis, coronary trouble, high blood pressure, and so on, down the whole catalog of psychosomatic ills.” Thus, only Scientology auditing sessions can rid a person of these medical ailments.

Page 31 of Narconon Course Book 5 states: “There are certain characteristics and mental attitudes which cause about twenty percent of a race to oppose violently any betterment activity or group.” This “antisocial personality,” of course, refers to anyone who speaks out against Scientology-Narconon.

Page 228 of Narconon Book 5 states that “ALL ILLNESS, IN GREATER OR LESSER DEGREE, AND ALL FOUL-UPS STEM DIRECTLY AND ONLY FROM A PTS CONDITION.” This refers to any person who does not fall into the category of “antisocial personality,” but is in contact with one who does. This is when Narconon invokes the Scientology “disconnection policy,” as stated by Narconon Trois-Rivières director, Marc Bernard on July 13, 2010 to Le Nouvelliste, a newspaper in Trois-Rivières: “This is when negative things happen to us and this is why the method encourages ‘disconnection’. This is what is taught in the writings that we work with.”




Narconon Book 5 goes on: “And unless the condition is relieved, no matter what medication or nutrition he may be given, he might not recover and certainly will not recover permanently: This seems to indicate that there are ‘other illnesses or reasons for illness besides being PTS.’ To be sure, there are deficiencies and illnesses just as there are accidents and injuries. But strangely enough the person himself precipitates them because being PTS predisposes him to them.” (Page 259)

It is evident and quite clear that Narconon teaches Scientology religious scripture doctrines. To emphatically state thatNO matter what medication may be given — he certainly will not recover permanentlyis contrary to any scientific, medical diagnosis and advice and certainly not practiced in normal drug detoxification centers whatsoever. As described by the medical profession, Narconon is pseudoscience and a practice that is considered to be without scientific foundation.


On a subtle gradient, the Narconon patient is fed misinformation about the psychiatric profession. This begins on page 312 of Book 5, “How To Disconnect”. “How a disconnection is done depends on the circumstances. Example: A person lives next door to, say a psychiatric clinic and feels PTS due to this environment. The remedy is simple he can move to another apartment in another location. He need not write any sort of disconnection letter to the psychiatric clinic. He simply changes his environment which is, in effect, a disconnection from the suppressive environment.”

Notable is the statement on page 337 of Narconon Book 5: “For twenty years, Narconon has been setting the pace in the field of drug rehabilitation, with (per independent studies) a 70 to 80 percent success rate in helping people to come off drugs and stay off them.”

In Narconon Book 6 (page 75), Hubbard takes a twisted path of misinformation to bash not only drugs designed by the U.S. Army, but also weapons and politicians: “For a man to develop a weapon capable of destroying all life on this planet (as has been done with atomic weapons and certain drugs designed by the U.S. Army) and place it in the hands of the criminally insane politicians is obviously not a survival act.”

Hubbard again attacks politicians in Book 6 on page 156: “These rich political and financial criminals are not happy; they may be envied by the common man for their wealth, but they are very unhappy people who more often than not come to grief eventually through drug or alcohol addiction, suicide or some other means of self-destruction.”


Again on page 563 of Book 6, Narconon enthusiastically promotes a 70 to 80% success rate.

Narconon Books 6 and 7 consist of using Scientology “demo kits” and “clay demos” to illustrate complex Scientology religious doctrines as prescribed by L. Ron Hubbard in Scientology policy manuals — a complex and frustrating process.

The patient is taught how to deliver a crippling “blow” to the psychiatric and pharmaceutical “industries” and is coerced into writing “letters of attack.”

The entire Narconon program consists of indoctrination and recruitment into the Church of Scientology and the patient is gradually led step by step through the processes, being controlled and brainwashed. In 2009, Narconon Trois-Rivières staff played a video from the Montreal Church of Scientology. It was one of many dozens produced by Scientology to disseminate its doctrine and discredit psychiatry and pharmacy companies as a whole. The video was indeed quite a disturbing propaganda attack against the medical profession and prescription drugs that save countless lives, permitting patients to cope and live productive lives in society.



The Scientology-Narconon campaign “Say No to Drugs” is a twofold endeavor to keep Scientology working by bringing in millions to the mother church, while at the same time attacking Scientology’s greatest adversary. One Hubbard bulletin (HCO PL 5 Oct 1971, PR Series 12) states: “’Psychiatry’ and ‘psychiatrist’ are easily redefined to mean ’an anti-social enemy of the people”.

In another bold attack, Hubbard states: “Doctors are too often careless and incompetent; psychiatrists are simply put-right murderers. The solution is not to pick up their pieces for them but to demand medical doctors become competent and to abolish psychiatry and psychiatrists as well as psychologists and other infamous Nazi criminal outgrowths.” (Technical Bulletins, Volume XI, first U.S. printing of 1979).

Scientology’s current leader, David Miscavige, addressing the International Association of Scientologists (IAS) in 1995, said:


“There are a lot of opinions out there as to what is wrong with Earth, 1995 unstable economies, unstable political arenas, criminality, drugs, injustice and so forth obviously valid concerns. But if you really want to eliminate those problems all you have to do is work for the objectives that we, as members of the IAS, have set for the year 2000: Objective One place Scientology at the absolute forefront of Society. Objective Two eliminate psychiatry in all its forms. We don’t care what the current thinking is regarding what’s wrong with the planet. Government won’t handle it. Politics won’t handle it. Legislation won’t handle it. All that’s going to handle it is what we, of the IAS, have set down in stone. Let’s get rid of psychiatry, and let’s bring Scientology to every man, woman and child on this planet.”


Perhaps of grave concern to the government agencies investigating the Narconon Scientology rehab centers in Quebec and around the globe should be the safety and well-being of the vulnerable and very ill patients who attend these pseudoscientific drug detoxification centers.

Physician-prescribed medications that help a patient cope, that relieve severe pain, and, more importantly, that enable a patient to survive debilitating disease and organ failure, are being withheld by staff at Narconon Trois-Rivières and other Narconon centers. Recently at Narconon Arrowhead in the United States, a blood pressure medication was not given to a patient — the individual left the facility.


At Narconon Trois-Rivières, a young man was denied his medication, and attempted suicide by jumping out the second-floor window. Another victim who was well known by Narconon staff to be suicidal and was not given appropriate aftercare and follow-up, shot himself dead. A seriously ill patient in the drug withdrawal unit was not given any weaning medication to safely withdraw from severe alcoholism and was rushed by ambulance to a hospital emergency department in Trois-Rivières.


A young woman who fell in the Narconon parking lot, fracturing her arm in 3 or4 locations, was taken to a hospital emergency ward. The attending physician ordered her to return the next day to set the fracture and apply a cast. The physician prescribed Tylenol #3 to alleviate her excruciating pain and help her rest through the night. The Narconon staff refused to administer the pain medication and the young lady suffered in tears. Most notable was a young man who was in the hot sauna program and was denied his insulin medication by a Narconon executive. When he arrived at the hospital emergency room, he was near death; only the immediate attention of emergency staff saved his life.



Perhaps one of the most dangerous practices at Narconon Trois-Rivières and many other Narconon centers is the “Say No to Drugs” campaign instituted by the Church of Scientology. No other part of the Narconon program leads to suicidal attempts and deaths like this “Say No to Drugs” campaign.
Clearly, this campaign is not merely about saying no to illegal street drugs, but to impose the dogma of Scientology creator L. Ron Hubbard and his successor, David Miscavige, and to attack proven science and medicine.



In 2011, the Quebec College of Physicians investigated the Narconon Trois-Rivières Medical Manager, patient physician Dr. Pierre Labonté (a Scientologist). Following several months of thorough investigations, the College reached its conclusion. To facilitate a comprehensive approach to the investigation, the College “solicited the opinion of an expert physician on drug dependence.”

http://www.examiner.com/article/montreal-physician-banned

On July 27, 2011, the College banned Dr. Labonté from ever associating with Narconon again. It further concluded that “Dr. Labonté had been in breach of several of his ethical obligations by associating himself with a drug detoxification center administering treatment not scientifically recognized in the current medical literature, by conducting an incomplete medical assessment, and by keeping records of mediocre quality.”

http://narcononcanada.com/2011/12/11/montreal-scientology-physician-banned/

So is Narconon a credible rehabilitation treatment center that benefits society or is it a money machine and recruitment facility for the Church of Scientology. With the majority of the executive staff and many of the other employees being Scientologists, and many of the new staff recruited from those who recently completed the program, the image is clear.

A simple Google search for drug rehab solutions turns up unscrupulous websites that lure many vulnerable patients and their loved ones to Narconon with promises of high success rates and immediate placement into a treatment center.

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Narconon/
Many patients pay extortionate sums of money, only to suffer from the scam experience, in many cases ending up in far worse condition and sometimes dead. Not only is this fraudulent con game illegal in Canada, but it questions the moral judgment and integrity of individuals and groups who propagate such evil in society.



In L. Ron Hubbard’s own words, “THE ONLY WAY YOU CAN CONTROL PEOPLE IS TO LIE TO THEM. You can write that down in your book in great big letters. The only way you can control anybody is to lie to them.” (lecture dated June 1952)

Notable are Dr. Gene Denk, Dr. Megan Shields, MD, and Dr. Steve Burton, MD, who are all Scientologists and endorse the Narconon Book 2, Clear Mind Clean Body. Dr. Denk was L. Ron Hubbard’s personal physician until Hubbard’s death in 1986. In a post-mortem blood test on Hubbard, traces of the psychiatric tranquilizer Vistaril were found. A psychiatric medication in the bloodstream of a man who had spent half of his life trying to dismantle the field of psychiatry?
The Narconon staff, who are also Scientologists, are well aware that the only way for a Narconon patient to remain clean and sober, according to L. Ron Hubbard, is to enroll in the “NED Drug Rundown” offered only at the Church of Scientology.


Scientology’s own words about the “NED Drug Rundown” say: “On this rundown, the harmful effects of drugs are erased and a person is freed from the compulsion or need to take drugs. This service handles drugs and the real reason a person started taking them in the first place.”
“Addressing drugs with NED technology removes the barriers that prevent progress up THE BRIDGE levels. It is a vital step on your NED program.”

What these quotations imply is that the Narconon program does NOT erase the harmful effects of drugs, nor does it free a patient from the compulsion or need to take drugs! Perhaps this is why the Narconon-promoted success rate of 70 to 80% is purely imaginary and in reality the failure rate is 80%.




David Edgar Love

Thursday, May 17, 2012

Narconon Breaches Patient Confidentiality

Narconon Trois-Rivieres Breaches Patient Confidentiality

Following a CBC TV National News broadcast April 12, 2012, Scientology Rehab, Narconon Trois-Rivieres spokesperson, Andre Ahern, publishes confidential patient information, including PDF file and video. Ahern, who admitted on CBC TV News, that indeed he is a Scientologist and that Narconon Trois-Rivieres does use the teachings of Scientology to treat patients, has launched a character assassination against David Edgar Love and Anonymous, calling them a criminal network. Clearly, the CBC TV news broadcast has driven cult members to desperate messures – - breaking the confidential trust of patient files.

http://www.wireservice.ca/index.php?module=News&func=display&sid=7917

WireService.ca Press Release – April 10, 2012 – Narconon Trois-Rivieres is no virgin to controversy since the April 2008 CBC TV Radio Canada undercover expose. Narconon had infiltrated Quebec schools and the minds of vulnerable children with Scientology misinformation about drugs and addiction. Since Scientology does not believe in many pharmaceutical drugs, the Narconon speaker invoked fear into the children, stating that all drugs are poison. The Quebec government has since banned any further Narconon infiltration into the arena of their children’s environment, the public school system.



Andre Ahern released confidential information concerning a Toronto mom’s Son, who was a patient at Narconon. Ahern states to CBC TV,….., “… when he arrived he was in a psychotic state. But you know what, we are not responsible for his condition when he came — for sure,” said Ahern.
Also, Ahern released and published on several websites today, confidential patient case file information about David Edgar Love who was interviewed on the same CBC TV show. The Narconon Trois-Rivieres law firm, Heenan and Blaikie, informed Narconon to keep Love’s information off the internet and to remove all videos of David Love. Narconon abided my the request and all was removed until yesterday’s expose of the incompetent and unqualified staff at the Scientology Rehab in Trois-Rivieres.

Since the CBC Radio Canada expose in April 2008, the Quebec government has implemented an Accreditation of all residential addiction treatment centers in Quebec – - all must receive Certification following inspections by a special Committee. It appears that Narconon Trois-Rivieres will be hard pressed to meet the stringent standards of professional, qualified care, as required.

Today, Narconon contravened the new regulations as follows:

35. The operator must protect the confidentiality of the personal information held and provide access in accordance with the Act respecting the protection of personal information in the private sector (R.S.Q., c. P-39.1)

39. The operator must, in accordance with recognized practices, assess the suicide risk of each resident when admitted and prior to departure. O.C. 569-2010, s. 39.



Andre Ahern claiming that, “…we are not responsible for his condition when he came….” is certainly up for Certification Committee review and possibly could moot Narconon’s application to be Accredited. The sponsor and mom of the “psychotic patient”, as Ahern claims, filled out a comprehensive patient medical history for the Narconon staff to read. The intake staff were well aware of the patient’s condition; accepted a $10,000 deposit, with a promise to pay the balance of $20,000. Once this patient was accepted into the Narconon program and had their check in hand, Narconon and Andre Ahern were responsible for the care and well being of the patient. It is nonsense to think otherwise.

Many of the Narconon Trois-Rivieres staff are new program graduates, with no qualifications whatsoever except they know the Scientology program teachings and how to teach and indoctrinate new patients into the same religious doctrines. In May-June 2009, there were five patients hired and paid a meager sum of only $2.50 per hour, contravening Quebec Labour Relations Laws under the Act. Many of these Scientology recruited staff are still vulnerable and require professional aftercare, which as Andre Ahern stated to CBC TV reporter, “… he doesn’t track what happens to most people after they leave the Trois-Rivières program….”.

Once again Narconon fails as per regulation:

(4) the name of the case worker responsible for the intervention plan and, if applicable, the follow-up plan established with community organizations. O.C. 569-2010, s. 38.

Recently, the Narconon Trois-Rivieres staff left a lethal substance in a location that was unsafe. A patient drank the substance and was hospitalized in Trois-Rivieres.

28.The operator must ensure that the place where the operator conducts activities is in a state that ensures the physical safety of residents. O.C. 569-2010, s. 27.

These negligent practices by incompetent Narconon staff, are dangerous to patient physical safety and staff are being investigated. Also unconscionable, is releasing confidential patient information.
A breach of confidentiality is a disclosure to a third party, without patient consent or court order, of private information that the treatment center has learned within the patient-caregiver relationship. Disclosure can be oral or written, by telephone or fax, or electronically, for example, via e-mail or health information networks. The medium is irrelevant – - ethical and moral judgement is crucial. A fact that Andre Ahern disregards without remorse or sorrow.

David Edgar Love

Narconon Fraud Success Rate

Narconon True Result Success Rate

The Canadian public must be aware of misleading and deceptive success rates at addiction rehab centers. The Narconon success rate has been a controversial issue for many years and is once again in recent news media reports and publications, questioning the credibility of these outlandish claims. There is simply no independent, verifiable information to be found that can establishe these high success rates of the patients who complete the Narconon rehab program. This fraud is being exposed and investigated by government and health authorities.

WireService.ca Press Release -

http://www.wireservice.ca/index.php?module=News&func=display&sid=7923

On May 2, 2002, Brad Melnychuk, director of the Scientology organization, ABLE Canada, made some interesting statements to the Federal 37th PARLIAMENT, 1st SESSION, Special Committee on Non-Medical Use of Drugs, concerning the success rate of Narconon. Brad Melnychuk states as follows:

 “The point being missed is that there are programs that do work–Narconon, for example. You may think I’m here just to promote my program. It happens to be a program I’m very familiar with, one that does in fact get results, so of course I will talk about it. I’m talking about it because of the results. For example, Narconon gets a 65% success rate of abstinence even at its worst. In fact, the average is 75%. The more experienced, larger, and well-staffed organizations get 90%. Now, when we’re talking results, we are talking about being drug-free for life…tracking people for two years after they’ve completed the program.”



Contradicting Melnychuk is Narconon Trois-Rivieres spokesperson, Scientologist, Andre Ahern, interviewed on CBC TV National, April 9, 2012, stating, “….he doesn’t track what happens to most people after they leave the Trois-Rivières program.”

In one 2009 meeting with Brad Melnychuk at Narconon Trois-Rivieres, in Quebec, Canada we discussed the success rate at Narconon and Brad agreed the rate was below 70% and he was concerned about the misleading advertising and promotions being presented to the public in brochures and web sites.

There is clear evidence that the success rate which Narconon uses to lure unsuspecting and vulnerable patients into their program, is misrepresented and far from the real truth. Governments and health authorities have been investigating these false claims for several months.

According to the Canada Competition Bureau website and the writer’s interview with Federal investigators, misleading and false advertising is a very serious offence and states:

“The false or misleading representations and deceptive marketing practices provisions of the Competition Act contain a general prohibition against materially false or misleading representations. They also prohibit making performance representations which are not based on adequate and proper testsThe Competition Act provides criminal and civil regimes to address false or misleading representations. Under both regimes, the Act prohibits the making, or the permitting of the making, of a representation to the public, in any form whatever, that is false or misleading in a material respect.”

To determine whether a representation is false or misleading, the courts consider the “general impression” it conveys, as well as its literal meaning. Under the criminal regime, certain practices are brought before the criminal courts, requiring proof of each element of the offence beyond a reasonable doubt. On summary conviction, the person is liable to a fine of up to $200,000 and/or imprisonment for up to one year. If convicted on indictment, the person is liable to a fine at the discretion of the court and/or imprisonment for up to 14 years.



Under the civil regime, certain practices may be brought before the Competition Tribunal, the Federal Court or the superior court of a province and require that each element of the conduct be proven on a balance of probabilities. The court may order a person to cease the activity, publish a notice and/or pay an administrative monetary penalty. On first occurrence, individuals are liable to penalties of up to $750,000 and corporations are liable to penalties of up to $10,000,000. For subsequent occurrences, the penalties increase to a maximum of $1,000,000 for individuals and $15,000,000 for corporations.

Not only are vulnerable addicts and their loved ones duped by inflated, misleading and false success, but also must be aware of the Narconon program health risks and dangers.

James J. Kenney, Ph.D., RD, of the National Council Against Health Fraud who said of the NarConon program “Health professionals who subject troubled people (many with psychiatric illnesses and / or severe emotional problems) to this unproven detoxification program are at best unethical and at worst guilty of health fraud.”

If you are seeking help for your addiction to drugs or alcohol or seeking help for a loved one, do your research first. Google: Narconon Exposed. Talk to your own personal physician and be open and honest. Inform him that part of the Narconon Program is entering a Sauna at high temperatures for 5 hours every day for weeks on end, taking doses of Niacin as high as 2,600mg to 5,000mg in one single dose.



Narconon is a Scientology organization and has control over all the affairs of every Narconon and Narconon International. It is a convicted criminal organization that has established policies written by L. Ron Hubbard, that it is ok to lie if it furthers the interests of their group.



David Edgar Love