Earlier today Narconon Arrowhead and Narconon of Georgia published online PRWEB Newswire articles: “Worldwide Celebration of 47 Years Fighting Addiction.” Scientology brags of having ‘fifty rehab centers on six continents and another 250 drug education and First Step groups.’
Known for inflated and outright fraudulent claims of drug treatment success rates, what grabbed my attention in their PR articles today was their misleading statement:
"Forty-seven years of drug recovery service is just the beginning," said Clark Carr, president of Narconon International. Around the world, we've graduated more than 38,000 students who have learned how to enjoy life without drugs. Narconon Arrowhead has been a leader in both drug rehab and drug prevention and we are proud of their contributions to a saner, safer world."http://tinyurl.com/bmd2p2s
‘Graduated’ 38,000 students do not necessarily mean these students are doing well and living a sober, productive life. In fact, only 6.6-20% of Narconon graduates can be attributed to living drug free, and many of these only because, on their own initiative, participate in further individual and group therapy.
'According to Peter Gerdman, a Stockholm social worker who conducted a study in May 1983, the overall completion rate was only 23% of those who enrolled in their program' - - something Scientology and Narconon publications fail to mention.
Another questionable statement in their PR Newswire article: “The speaker also praised the Narconon Arrowhead staff for their relentless drug education outreach. Drug education specialist Nico Bain has been touring Oklahoma and neighboring states to lecture to schoolchildren, reaching anywhere from 500 to 1,000 young people in any given week.”
Although Narconon may still be infiltrating some public schools with their misleading and false drug lectures, most school districts in the USA, Canada, and elsewhere, have banned this nonsense. Their “Truth about Drugs” lectures campaign to indoctrinate young school children, is being exposed as unsafe and possibly dangerous quackery.
With three patient deaths inside Narconon Arrowhead and ongoing wrongful death and other lawsuits, Scientology drug rehabs are struggling with public image and media attention every week.
For more information about the Narconon controversy around the globe, the following website provides details about numerous deaths inside the centers and the very real dangers pertaining to the pseudoscientific drug addiction treatments.
David Edgar Love
http://www.examiner.com/article/narconon-arrowhead-and-georgia-misleading-prweb-newswire?cid=db_articles
posted: March 14, 2013, 7:39 am
Raised in Scientology: Rediscovering my childhood
BabyCenter Guest Blogger
posted: March 14, 2013, 7:39 am
By Jenna Miscavige
After a lifetime of physical, verbal, mental and spiritual abuse, I finally had the courage to leave the church of Scientology in 2005 when I was 21, barely escaping with my husband.
Although I had escaped the physical organization, I could not escape the scar it left. Growing up in Scientology, any time I expressed my individuality or had been outgoing, or put myself out there in any way, I was reprimanded for being selfish. I was told I needed to fix myself, and toe the line. I became paralyzingly shy. I wanted to be social and friendly, to have animated conversations like normal women my age—but I was in a prison in my own mind. Instead, I hid behind my husband and fretted about what to say and how to talk to people.
In 2009, my son Archie was born and my life changed forever. My life has not always been easy, but being his mom has given me a self worth and happiness that I had never known previously.
Any mom will understand when I say, it is amazing how being a mom brings you out of your shell–from the moment your baby is born, when you are happily topless in a hospital room in front of multiple strangers, through the ridiculous things you do just to make your kids smile (from dancing around like a complete fool, to the faces you have to make) to the in-depth public conversations about poop and pee-pee. And in the process, they let you be a child again yourself.
That was so true for me, and it’s been a huge part of my healing. Archie is four now, but I remember like it was yesterday the first moment he saw snow. He danced, and opened his mouth and let a snowflake land on his tongue. I was right there with him, giggling and experiencing it just as he was. When he first noticed the stars and we lay on our porch as my husband explained to him what they were and how they worked, I was right there gazing up at them, learning things too. When he picked up his first leaf, it made me remember when I did too, and I wanted to feel how the dried leaf crumbled in my hand.
I have been right there with him every step of the way, and am just as awed and amazed by the world he’s discovering. Seeing his face and watching him wonder and think and try to formulate the proper questions is like watching magic happen right in front of me. A new person is being born–his personality is blossoming–and I get to see how that happens when it’s in a loving and caring environment.
I got to experience it again when my daughter was born, and saw her blossom in an entirely different way. It was proof that I didn’t just get lucky with my son—it’s proof that the world really is a miracle. My kids are so smart, wild, curious, empathetic, loving, gentle, determined and adorable. I love and cherish everything about them, and I always will. Mostly for themselves, but also for how they have changed me and allowed me to experience the world in a way I could never during my own childhood. They have made me a better person in every way. Being a mom is the most beautiful and meaningful thing that I have ever been part of. Being a mom has been the therapy I didn’t even know that I needed.
Jenna Miscavige Hill grew up inside Scientology as the niece of its current leader, David Miscavige. Her new biography, “Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and my Harrowing Escape,” was on Amazon’s “best books of the month” list in February.
This is part two of two posts about growing up in Scientology. Read part one here.
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