What it was like to run a Scientology drug rehab in Narconon's heyday

[Karen#1]

TONY ORTEGA
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[Ron has a Bridge to sell you]




We’ve documented here at the Underground Bunker how Scientology leader David Miscavige has diminished the church’s drug rehab network, Narconon, in the face of so many lawsuits and patient deaths in the US. But at one time, Scientology was going to take over the world with its cold-turkey clinics, which Patty Moher reminds us in this terrific story of her time running Narconon Connecticut…


In 1975, I became the Executive Director of Narconon Connecticut. I was 21 years old and my only qualification for the job was that no one else wanted it.

I had no idea how to run a drug rehab, but Narconon had a full set of “OEC volumes” and I had been told that those thick books, filled with endless policies written by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, contained all the information anyone needed to run any organization.

So I dug in and started reading and running Narconon as I was supposed to — in other words, just like a Scientology Org, and when in doubt to ask myself, what would Ron do?

By Scientology standards I was a very good “ED.” I was a ruthless, heartless bitch who pushed for stats and money and products. I was completely “unreasonable” and got much accomplished, including getting a 10 bedroom house so that Narconon could be a live-in facility.

I also secured close to a quarter of a million dollars in government funding, which was a lot of money in the 1970s.

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What it was like to run a Scientology drug rehab in Narconon's heyday

We’ve documented here at the Underground Bunker how Scientology leader David Miscavige has diminished the church’s drug rehab network, Narconon, in the face of so many lawsuits and patient deaths in the US.

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[pineapple]

I remember seeing that very illustration (minus the pic of LRH) when I got into scn in 1975. It may have been on the back cover or possibly the flyleaf of "All About Radiation." (Unlike some of LRH's other books, I could see at once this was unscientific nonsense.)

Excellent writeup by Patty Moher. Really captures the flavor of those times.

 

[Scooter]

I well remember being in LA as ED NN ANZO and chatting to the various other NN Continental rep.s there about their old days in NN in various places around the $cientology globe.

The Bridge was the whole "treatment" for drugs back in the 70s, all the way up to Grade IV. But the kult connection was toxic, particularly for inveigling $s from govt. bodies. So it "evolved" over time.

I don't think there's any NNs operating in Oz any more. Hope I'm not wrong. I think "we" successfully got them all to shut up shop and fuck off back to their Idle Morgues to gnash their teeth and wring their hands