NARCONON EXPOSED: Scientology's flagship drug rehab facility is struggling, records show - 2014-04-23

NARCONON EXPOSED: Scientology's flagship drug rehab facility is struggling, records show April 23, 2014, Tony Ortega, Underground Bunker

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The Underground Bunker has obtained internal financial records from Scientology's flagship drug rehab facility in Oklahoma — known as Narconon Arrowhead — which show the toll that recent deaths, multiple lawsuits, and a drumbeat of bad press has taken on the treatment center.

At its website, Scientology says that the Narconon network has 155 centers and groups in 46 countries, but it calls Narconon Arrowhead its "premier" facility, with a 230-patient capacity. In the late 1980s, Scientology chose Oklahoma as the place where it wanted to set up its largest drug rehab center as a model for the rest of the world. Located originally on an Indian reservation in Chilocco, the center took over a former conference center on Eufaula Lake in Southeastern Oklahoma in 2001 and was renamed Narconon Arrowhead.

The drug rehab program uses a combination of lengthy sauna treatments and low-level Scientology training and claims success rates of 70 to 90 percent (which even its own legal affairs officer admitted in an e-mail were based on no scientific evidence). John Travolta, Tom Cruise, and Kirstie Alley have all praised Narconon publicly, and Cruise visited the Narconon Arrowhead facility with Katie Holmes in 2005.

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{{cite news | author = Tony Ortega | title = NARCONON EXPOSED: Scientology's flagship drug rehab facility is struggling, records show | url = https://tonyortega.org/2014/04/23/narconon-exposed-scientologys-flagship-drug-rehab-facility-is-struggling-records-show/ | work = Underground Bunker | date = April 23, 2014 | accessdate = August 21, 2017 }}