Another Narconon Stonehawk Victim

From: Behaser &langlegregbe at frognet dot net⟩
Date: 2 Jan 2007 13:41:23 -0800
Newsgroups: alt.religion.scientology
Subject: Narconon and Greg Beha

Below is a couple of E-Mails to me from a family that had a "Narconon Experience" back in November that I responded to. The names has been deleted.

Greg Beha

Dear Greg,

My name is xxxxxxxxxx. My husband xxxxxx, his ex-wife xxxxx and I recently decided that our son needed to go into a rehab facility. He was arrested for possession of meth and we found out he had an ongoing problem for some time. xxxxxx is my step-son but I was given the task of researching programs to send him to. We, too, were given information about Narconon and we actually spoke to three different Narconon facilities before deciding to send him to Narconon Arrowhead in Oklahoma.

We borrowed the $27,000 from our 401(k) and yesterday his mom drove him up from central Texas where we live to Canadian Oklahoma. Up to that point we had been assured that Narconon was a non-profit organization which used L. Ron Hubbard's textbook to teach out of and his sauna program which he had developed to "sweat" out the drugs from his system. We were not told of a withdrawal period before the sauna program. She began to do some intense study of anti-Narconon articles and sent it to my husband and me to study as well. It was on Stop-Narconon.org website that I first read your story.

I have called my bank and put a stop-payment on the initial check of $2500 which they insisted we send with our son for his "medical" expenses and a post-dated check for the remaining $24,500 dated the 16th. We are now faced with a great dilemna and are hoping you might share with us what you have found out since your son left the program. I have been reading about the various books they use and it is beginning to sound like brainwashing to me. We did not send xxxxxx up to Arrowhead to be converted to Scientology though we have had an open mind to using L. Ron Hubbard's techniques if they are, as stated, over 70% successful. We, like you, just want our son back whole and healthy.

We have to make a very quick decision about getting our son out of there and appreciate any input you might have.

We wish you all the very best with your son.

God bless,

Dear Greg,

Thank you for your reply to my email. Fortunately for us and especially our son, we responded quickly to information we managed to uncover about Narconon Arrowhead in Oklahoma and after one day at the program, picked our son up and he is now in a 12-step program here in Texas.

We had paid $2500 up front for xxxxx to be admitted to cover the physical and detox part of the program and had written a post-dated check for the remaining balance of the fee they charge in Oklahoma, $27,000 (this is with a $3000 discount for paying all at once). I stopped payment on the $2500 check and they returned the post-dated check when xxxxx was picked up. I am sure we will receive charges for his physical, room and board for 24 hours and all the vitamins, plus they had given him during his stay. This is acceptable to us and hopefully, will put Narconon behind us.

I am so sorry for all you had to go through with your son. How scary that had to have been for you. But please know that because of your willingness to speak out and have your story published along with others, we were able to determine that this program was not what we wanted for our son.

God bless,

Back to Greg Beha's story or the Stop-Narconon.org front door