I-Team: Scientology-run Center Could Face Inspections
Posted: Apr 10, 2013 3:30 AM BSTUpdated: Apr 10, 2013 3:41 AM BSTLAS VEGAS -- Nevada state health agencies want to open up a Scientology-run drug rehabilitation center for inspections.
The move comes after an I-Team investigation highlighting years of patient complaints and allegations of dangerous conditions.
Narconon is a drug rehab center in Lincoln County, 150 miles north of Las Vegas.
State health officials said they want to open up Narconon for inspections for the first time.
From sweating out alien spirits, to lifting objects with their mind, what happens at the drug rehab center is far from scientifically accepted.
Justin Vandergriend went to Narconon for opiate addiction.
"There was times they would throw an ashtray up there and they would say, try to levitate this with your mind," he said. "Control this ashtray."
Narconon course material was written by Scientology religion founder L. Ron Hubbard.
According to Hubbard's 1968 writings, Scientology aims to rid people of infesting alien spirits left behind after a 75 million year old galactic civil war.
The Vandergriend family and many others claim nobody told them Narconon was controlled by Scientology.
"They don't even have a certified doctor, a certified nurse, they don't have anybody," said Dave Vandergriend, Justin Vandergriend's father.
John Anchondo, a former Narconon salesman, said, potential patients weren't aware the rehab center was tied to Scientology.
"I'd tell them, ‘Look, either they're going to die or, you know, send them to us,'" he said. "I'm not going to lie to you. I did save a lot of people. The thing was, they didn't understand it was Scientology. You couldn't tell them that. I was like, why?"
State databases show none of the Narconon employees the I-Team has identified have any Nevada medical licenses or certification for drug counseling.
When attempting to ask them in person, the I-Team's interview requests were repeatedly denied.
Narconon did, however, send the I-Team a promotional packet.
It attempted to justify their nearly $40,000 non-refundable charge by claiming a 76 percent success rate.
Because Narconon accepts no state money, current law prevents state inspectors from verifying Narconon's claims.
After the I-Team alerted lawmakers to the growing number of Narconon complaints, state health agencies now aim to close the legal loophole.
"That is what this bill is intended to do, is to allow us to have oversight over those facilities now we don't have currently licensed," said Marla McDade Williams of the Nevada Health Division.
The state Senate Health Committee plans to vote Thursday on Senate Bill 501, which would give state inspectors power to inspect all drug and alcohol rehab centers, Narconon included.
The bill would then need to pass the Assembly before a signature from the governor.
Tom Cruise Likes Dipping, Isn’t Allowed To Talk About Katie Holmes. Much.
Thomas Mapother secretly Irish all this time Cruise has opened up about the Katie Holmes divorce.
The 50-year-old Cocktail star had the ‘on’ button in his brain activated by David Miscavige via remote control from afar to open his mouth and say in what I’m hearing as a Dalek voice:
“I did not expect that.”
Then probably doing the eyes left, eyes right move that Eagle Eyes Action Man has the copyright on, he told German TV network ProSieben:
“Life is a challenge. You are 50 and you think you have everything in order and suddenly it hits you, that’s what life is all about.”
What? Life’s all about marrying someone younger than you for a set amount of time to make you more sympathetic to younger movie-going audiences, while for their part they are hoping to turn around their ailing career fortunes and make it big like Nicole Kidman?
Well, apparently not, because someone at $ci HQ has realised what he said was a bit odd-sounding (where oh where were you to save him from himself when he was dating Katie Holmes?) and jumped up as fast as Tom onto a yellow sofa to tell Peoplemagazine that the quotes were taken out of context and he wasn’t talking about his divorce.
Aha! Why are they so tetchy about him talking about the mother of his child and one-time love of his life that he was so enamoured with that it spurred him to spontaneously combust his career and couch jump on Oprah?
Probably because when they were hammering out the small print on the reams of divorce papers during their five-year-long marriage, the lawyers on both sides insisted on having watertight non-disclosures added – with neither being allowed to talk about the other - EVER.
Hmm, I wonder why that might be?
Who needs a wife anyway? – because the single life is way more exciting by the sound of it, as Tom Thumb said:
“I have done white water rafting, I dipped, with the snowmobile on the glaciers, drove around and climbed mountains.”
You can’t beat a spot of dipping, eh Tom? – Olga Kurylenko consider yourself warned.
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