Stop-Narconon.org Document Archive

Program Evaluations

• Narconon Drug Abuse Prevention Program Evaluation from the California Department of Education. January, 2005. (local copy)

• San Francisco Medical Society report to the San Francisco Unified School District in 2004, recommending the banning of Narconon from public schools. (text version)

• Findings of the accompanying state inspection of the activities of Narconon, e.V., Berlin, Germany, 1978.

• Narconon program evaluation conducted for the Delaware Agency to Reduce Crimeq, dated October 1975.

• 1974 State of California Evaluation of Narconon (highly critical)

Narconon Rebuffed

• Hot!!! Leona Valley (California) anti-Narconon briefing book (163 pages; 74 MB pdf file). Read more about Leona Valley's battle against Narconon infiltration here.

• Hot!!! Narconon Credibility Investigation, including 183 pages of exhibits, documenting Narconon's extensive history of violations of California ADP (Alcohol and Drug Programs) regulations, and lying about it.

• Narconon is banned from Boston public schools according to a Superintendent's Office memo dated September 1, 2004.

• Rebuffed by Hillbsorough County (Florida) school district: teachings of L. Ron Hubbard considered religious in nature.

• Press release issued by the Trafford Metroploitan Borough (U.K.), in response to an article in the Manchester Evening News, announcing that a certain drug education group has been booted out of their school system. Although not named in the release, the group is known from other sources to be Narconon. (text version)

Other Stuff

• Narconon In-Charge Course shows use of Scientology-style checklist format and methods, including Study Technology and clay demos.

  Excerpts from the Narconon Withdrawl Specialist Course textbook.

• Narconon Credit, a memo from L. Ron Hubbard to Scientology staff: "... in order to make a bridge back over into Scn, it would seem to be necessary to use my name in NN publicity."

• Narconon is the bridge to The Bridge (i.e., Scientology's spiritual "Bridge to Total Freedom"), according to this 1974 flyer.

• IRS 1023 attachment (117 page PDF file, 2.3 MB) submitted as part of Scientology's 1993 application for tax exempt charity status lists Narconon as a Scientology-affiliated group.
  • Narconon excerpt from the IRS 1023 document (13 page PDF file, 240 kB)

• The Command Channels of Scientology. Excerpt from a larger document, showing that Narconon's parent organization ABLE (Association for Better Living and Education) is an integral part of the Scientology corporate structure. The last page mentions Narconon explicitly.

• Narconon License Agreement from 2004, showing that every Narconon must remit 10% of its gross receipts (not net profit) to ABLE International, and is forbidden to say or do anything that would tarnish the image of cult founder L. Ron Hubbard.

• The Miceli Proposal, the only independent scientific study of Narconon's treatment regimen, was rejected by the human subject review committee as "unfit for human experimentation".

• The Introduction to "Clear Body, Clear Mind". This book introduces the "Purif", the Scientology religious ritual (a sauna/running/niacin/oil regimen) used in Narconon.

• Narconon is not accredited by JCAHO, and is therefore not eligible for reimbursement by health insurance providers.

• Narconon's Place on the Scientology Org Board, from the May 27, 2004 issue of International Scientology News.

• Scientology emails demonstrating that Narconon inculcates Scientology religious concepts, and that the organization is run according to Scientology scripture: Ethics books and OEC (green) volumes.

• Mark Chimblo v. Narconon et al., a lawsuit filed in 1996. Includes allegations of Narconon staffers having sex with underage girls on premises, and in one case, also injecting the girl with heroin.

• Letter purportedly from a Narconon Case Supervisor (unsigned, and postmarked from Tulsa, OK), claiming that over half the people who leave the Narconon program do so because of this web site. Perhaps the other half don't know how to use a web browser?

• Narconon IRS Form 990 disclosures compiled and analyzed by Ray Hill: excessive pay to franchise owners (Narconon is supposedly a non-profit), possible inurement, and other funny goings on.

• Narconon's disappearing advisory board: photoshopped out of existence!

• Dr. James Dahlgren's fraudulent study of the Hubbard detox method (a key component of Narconon) was denounced as "unconscionable" by toxicology experts.

• The Social Coordination Committee (html version), Scientology's attempt to make Narconon and the Purif appear secular to outsiders, while ensuring that L. Ron Hubbard received full credit for his "technology".

• Patricia Pieniadz, former Executive Director of Narconon Connecticut, reviews the history of Narconon and denounces it as a fraud.

• Dr. Norma Tigerman never endorsed Narconon

• Narconon spams search engines with over 100 domain names

• The research paper that wasn't published

• Clark Carr and the E-meter.

Left: Diagram from "The Command Channels of Scientology", highlighting Narconon's parent organization, ABLE. Below: Video clip from Scientology's 2005 FLAG World Tour DVD, showing ABLE office inside the Church of Scientology's FLAG Land Base.

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