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Some remarkable documents hit the Internet yesterday. They appear to be actual scripts used by employees who answer the phone numbers listed at drug rehab information websites with generic-sounding names.
The websites claim to deliver impartial advice about drug rehabilitation programs, but many of them are in fact front operations for Scientology s rehab network, vacation packages to key west Narconon. According to the scripts as well as confirmation vacation packages to key west by several former employees the people who answer these phone calls are instructed to do everything they can to convince a family vacation packages to key west to send a potential patient to a Narconon center (and they earn a large bounty for doing so).
It s the first step in Narconon s deceptive business model, which has come under intense scrutiny in the past year because of deaths at centers in Oklahoma and Georgia. Before patients arrive at the centers, however, they must be convinced to go there. And that s where these scripts come in.
Researcher Mary McConnell obtained the scripts from a source inside the Southern California Narconon network known as Narconon Fresh Start and posted them to a Scribd account and to the Reaching for the Tipping Point Forum , which keeps a close eye on Scientology vacation packages to key west s drug rehab program.
While it s not unusual for businesses to provide scripts to their telephone operators, particularly in telemarketing firms, the Narconon scripts are remarkable for how plainly they spell out Scientology s total influence over the process and the deceptive vacation packages to key west methods used to answer the questions vacation packages to key west of callers.
As we ve reported numerous times previously, the Narconon network insists to reporters that it is not connected to the Church of Scientology. In fact, Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard tasked his Guardian s Office the church s legal and intelligence wing, which was replaced by the Office vacation packages to key west of Special Affairs to use Narconon and other front groups as a way to improve Scientology s image. Today, church leader David Miscavige vacation packages to key west touts Narconon s statistics at big annual vacation packages to key west church events, and only members of Scientology s inner hardcore, the Sea Org, can staff the Association for Better Living and Education, the umbrella corporation that licenses Narconon International.
In fact, several of them are signed by Chris Bauge, Narconon Fresh Start s deputy vacation packages to key west executive vacation packages to key west director, who has a history of Scientology involvement . Tax records show that Bauge was paid $256,543 in salary and $11,015 in other compensation by Narconon Fresh Start in 2011, the last year the organization s records are available.
We called Narconon Fresh Start yesterday, explained why we were calling to the person who answered the phone, but were then told to call Narconon International Narconon Fresh Start s licensing body. We did as we were told and left a message. We re still waiting for a reply.
McConnell posted several different scripts that tend to have much in common. They instruct a Narconon employee, when he or she receives a call, to spend some time getting basic information about how the caller is connected to the potential patient, and gather more data about the full family situation, which seems prudent. But then, the operator is instructed to convince the caller that things are worse than he or she may have believed
After more conversation, the employee is instructed to use the classic Scientology strategy of finding a ruin. In other words, to find the key vulnerability that will convince the potential patient that he s at serious risk without immediate help: I.e. Felony charges and he will never be able to get a good job, legal charges, kids get taken away by CPS, children grow up without a father or mother, addict s liver or kidneys fail, wind up in jail or prison, kill themselves or someone vacation packages to key west else by drunk driving, vacation packages to key west they die from an overdose.
After finding that vulnerability, the employee vacation packages to key west is supposed to pretend that he has other families to talk to, and will call back later, but at that point must also speak with the family opinion leader in other words, the decision maker and source of funding.
vacation packages to key west After convincing the family opinion leader that the addict s problem vacation packages to key west is very severe and requires at least 90 days of treatment, the employee then has to convince the family that there are numerous programs to avoid.
The employee then dead agents other well known options. Dead agent is a Scientology term for providing negative information to bias a listener vacation packages to key west against someone or something. In this case, the employee first badmouths inexpensive state or county programs, saying that they are used as an absolute last resort. The employee is instructed to describe vacation packages to key west them as crime-ridden vacation packages to key west hellholes.
Next, the employee takes on the more well known private programs around the country. The employee describes Passages of Malibu as one of the best programs, with an excellent vacation packages to key west success rate, but costing $150,000 which in my opinion is a bit ridiculous.
The employee then raises the prospect of Narconon centers, but doesn t sell too hard: The success rates are claimed to fall between 75 to 80 percent. (Emphasis ours. In fact, those rates are preposterous. Even the best programs claim success rates of closer vacation packages to key west to 25 percent, and Narconon programs seem to raise their numbers all the time. Some are even claiming 90 percent success rates in recent advertisements.)
The employee continues with the soft sell: The only thing with these treatment centers is sometimes they are full and running on a waiting list. That and they are not as posh or luxurious as the more expensive ones.
As the employee continues to push the caller toward vacation packages to key west Narconon, he also continues to pretend that he may have a difficult time getting them in, saying vacation packages to key west that he will try to get someone at a Narconon center on the phone.
When she worked at Narconon Vista Bay in northern California, she would field calls that came in through the generic websites. Like the employee described in the scripts, she had to pretend that she had no connection to Narconon, even though she was sitting in one.
I would pick up the phone and pretend that I wasn t a Narconon employee, and I d try to get them into Narconon, vacation packages to key west she says. It was also important, she says, to keep Scientology out of the conversation. After convincing the caller that Narconon might be the best option, she d transfer the call to someone else in the building.
They have their own staff members pretending to be referring sources. So those are their own employees handling those calls and referring them to a Narconon SoCal reg, even though they re just referring vacation packages to key west down the hall, Catton says, referring to the registrars ( reg for short) whose job it is to get people to buy services.
vacation packages to key west Catton, Tenorio, and Payne tell us that the generic websites and referral calls are only the beginning of Narconon deceptions. Families vacation packages to key west are told that Narconon patients will get personalized counseling for their specific drug problems in a facility staffed with professional medical personnel. In fact, they say, there s little drug counseling; instead, Narconon materials show that patients go through the exact same training as beginning Scientologists do. (Narconon claims that these activities, such as shouting at ashtrays, have somehow been secularized, but it s not clear how talking to ashtrays or holding staring contests in the church is religious to begin with in fact, Hubbard claimed that Scientology was an exact science of the mind.) As for medical personnel, Narconon facilities are in fact staffed largely by former patients for low pay, and in the case of Narconon Georgia, court records showed that the lone physician associated vacation packages to key west with the staff had never once actually set foot in the place.
Catton and Tenorio also alleged recently that Narconon staff members obtained some of their professional certifications fraudulently. Last week, the National Association vacation packages to key west of Forensic Counselors took the extraordinary step of revoking the certifications of Gary Smith (CEO of Narconon Arrowhead) and Mary Rieser (former executive director of Narconon Georgia) as well as an undisclosed number of other employees. vacation packages to key west (We ve made multiple calls to Smith and Rieser which have not been returned.)
Smith is losing his certification at a time when the Narconons in Oklahoma and Georgia are under intense vacation packages to key west scrutiny by local and state investigators in multiple criminal probes. The state of Oklahoma, meanwhile, is considering legislation this month that could make it tougher for Narconon Arrowhead to hold onto its licensing.
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