October 16, 2006

            This is an update to what has happened since you last heard from
me.  My name is Greg Beha. The story I presented to Vinnie on the show was
my experience with Narconon Stone Hawk Drug Rehabilitation Center of Battle
Creek Michigan. (for the ones that missed the show go to September 16, 2006
show on the Vince Daniel website, approx. 2 hours and 3 minutes into the
show).  During that show I had the opportunity to talk to Clark Carr,
(president of Narconon) about my situation. During the show he tiptoed
around the whole issue of why they sent my step-son to a motel after 18 days
of treatment in one of his Narconon Centers. He also tiptoed around the
issue of why I was not granted a refund. He informed me that he would talk
to the owner of that Narconon Center (Per Wickstrom) and see if something
could be worked out. 

            On September 27th I finally reached Per Wickstrom on the phone
(week and half after the show) and his final answer was that I was not going
to receive any refund and that my step-son was more than welcome to come
back to Stone Hawk and that he would send a car to Ohio to pick him up. He
also told me that he just suspended another student. But he didn't tell me
what he did with him

            On October 6 there was a public meeting held in Manistee,
Michigan where Per Wickstrom was trying to open another Narconon center. I
made the trip to Manistee (9 hour drive) to confront Per Wickstrom in person
about my refund. Out in the parking lot Per Wickstrom told me that I was not
going to receive any refund, and told me that my step-son was still welcome
back to Narconon for the next two years.

            This new Narconon Site in Manistee, Michigan will be Per and
Kate Wickstrom's 3rd  Narconon site in Michigan. Per Wickstrom said there
are 12 Narconon Centers in the United States. The new center in Manistee,
Michigan will be the 13th center in the United States. Per and Kate will own
almost 1/4th of the Narconon Centers in the States. If Per Suspened one
addict in each of his centers every 3 weeks and doesn't give them a refund.
It comes to about   $1,198,500   (17 weeks times 3 addicts times $23,500
equals $1,198,500). That's a real good income, (bonus money) and it's
tax-free because he never sent me any thing saying that my son was there. (a
receipt, bill or any type of billing information saying that my son was
there even after I requested 4 or 5 times). In Stone Hawk enrollment
agreement rules you will receive the necessary paperwork (a receipt, bill or
any type of billing information)  within two weeks after you graduate if you
request it in writing. In other words if you don't graduate, too bad. 

            Some of the items that I didn't get to discuss on the first
radio show;

*        When I called "1-800 No Drugs" for a Drug rehab I talked to a
"Desiree", when I called back to ask them why they hooked me up with
Narconon Center, "Desiree" knew everyone at Stone Hawk by name. (Is 1-800 No
Drugs part of the Narconon system?)

*        We received an additional $1,418.09 in hospital bills. They screwed
up in Detox (where my son was throwing up blood and was dehydrated) and had
to take my step-son to a real hospital. Where was the  24-hour nursing
coverage at Stone Hawk?

*        One of my step-son's friends died of an overdose in our little town
while my step-son was at Narconon. We called up there to let the counselor
(Patty) know what happen, and to take our son aside and tell him.
Approximately an hour later our son called and told us that  his old
girlfriend called and told him about the death.  She was on the No-Call list
(meaning that Narconon wasn't allowed to even acknowledge to her that he was
at Narconon).  I called Patty to ask him what happened and he denied that
she called and that my son saw a note on his desk and that he didn't have
time to talk to my son yet.

*        We were able to talk to Ramsy whenever we wanted until after we
enrolled our son then we couldn't get in touch  with him for two weeks.

*        I think I said Narconon paid for the Motel room and gave him $10
dollars. Actually the room came out of my son's medical fund and the $10
dollars came out of my son's student fund. Both of which I paid into, it was
my money.

*        Clark Carr  and Per Wickstrom said that it was their policy to drop
the suspended student at the bus station, airport, or have the parents pick
up the student at the center. Per Wickstrom said at Manistee City Hall they
followed that policy 99% of the time.

*        I think all the phones including the payphones in the center are
always recording because there were things we said to our son that they knew
when we talked to them.

*        The motel they dropped him off was a $38.00 a night motel.  My
guess is that you could buy any drugs you wanted within a couple of hours.
The night I picked up my son, someone had their head bashed in, from an
assault, at the lobby and was bleeding all over the floor 

*        In order to come back from suspension we would have to pay $1,500
for a cleansing and if they found drugs in his system we would have to pay
an additional $3,500 or more for Detox 

            I guess the story I want to tell is that Narconon Drug
Rehabilitation Centers are all over the United States and they have a no
refund program where they can take your money ($23,500) and stick it to you.
You don't know it's a No Refund Program until the day you get there and then
you are so desperate to turn your son or daughter over to get them off drugs
you will sign anything.
 
Still waiting on my refund

 
Greg Beha
gregbe [at] frognet [dot] net