Narconon Watch:
North America

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Background info  
Locations
News and Events
  • 29 March 1994 - At least 10 Native American reservations in Alberta are approached by Narconon, promoting its anti-drugs therapies, but appears to not find any new customers.
    (Source: Calgary Herald, 29 March 1994)

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Arizona Current Status: Defunct

Background info
  • The original home of Narconon, established in 1966 by William Benitez.
Locations
  • None

 

News and Events
  • 19 February 1966 - While incarcerated in Arizona State Prison, William Benitez establishes the first Narconon programme after reading Hubbard's book The Fundamentals of Thought.
     
  • 11 September 1978 - Narconon Arizona is incorporated.
    (Source: Corporate records, Arizona Secretary of State)
     
  • 10 July 1982 - Narconon Arizona has its incorporation revoked after failing to file its annual report.
    (Source: Corporate records, Arizona Secretary of State)
     
  • 13 March 1985 - Narconon is incorporated in Arizona (but no longer calls itself "Narconon Arizona".
    (Source: Corporate records, Arizona Secretary of State)
     
  • 10 October 1989 - Narconon has its incorporation revoked after again failing to file its annual report.
    (Source: Corporate records, Arizona Secretary of State)
     
  • 19 December 2000 - Narconon Cochise County is incorporated with its agent named as being Thomas Floyd, a corrections officer at the Douglas State Prison in the county. He also happens to be a Scientologist and has a home page at http://scientologist.myhomepage.org/thomasfloyd/myself.htm.
    (Source: Corporate records, Arizona Secretary of State)
     
  • 5 October 2002 - Narconon Cochise County is dissolved.
    (Source: Corporate records, Arizona Secretary of State)

California

Current Status: Active

Background info
  • Narconon's worldwide headquarters, Narconon International, has its headquarters in Los Angeles, California, not far from the Church of Scientology's worldwide headquarters.
Locations
News and Events
  • 1 May 1970 - Narconon New Life Program is incorporated in the State of California as a non-profit corporation.
    (Source: Corporate records, California Secretary of State)
     
  • June 1972 - Narconon New Life Program begins in Los Angeles, CA as an office that deals with out-patients. There is no official funding at this time.
     
  • 15 June 1973 - A Narconon branch is incorporated in Palo Alto.
    (Source: Corporate records, California Secretary of State)
     
  • 7 November 1973 - Following a proposal by Narconon for $330,000 of state funding, Narconon New Life Program receives its first funding under Senate Bill 714 and a contract is awarded on behalf of the State of California.
     
  • 1 July 1974 - Following a proposal by Narconon for $497,000 of state funding, a second contract is awarded on behalf of the State of California.
     
  • 19 August 1974 - A Narconon branch is incorporated in Berkeley.
    (Source: Corporate records, California Secretary of State)
     
  • 6 September 1974 - A Narconon branch is incorporated in Sacramento.
    (Source: Corporate records, California Secretary of State)
     
  • 31 October 1974 - The State Department of Health evaluates the Narconon centre in Los Angeles, faulting many aspects of the programme and castigating it for its lack of medical value. The evaluation team decides that "Detoxification procedures should be stopped on the premises since their procedures are without proper medical supervision and may be dangerous" and recommend that state funding be terminated.
    (Source: "Outline for recovery, House Evaluation")
     
  • January 1977 - The city of Palo Alto produces an evaluation of the contract it had with Narconon, highlighting many deficiencies in the programme and its management and citing "low levels of performance". The programme is terminated.
    (Source: "Annual Performance Evaluation of the City of Palo Alto's Contract with Narconon Palo Alto")
     
  • 11 March 1981 - "The Friends of Narconon", an organisation for ex-Narconon members, is incorporated.
    (Source: Corporate records, California Secretary of State)
     
  • 1 July 1982 - Narconon Berkeley is suspended (i.e. goes out of business).
    (Source: Corporate records, California Secretary of State)
     
  • 1 June 1987 - Narconon Palo Alto is suspended.
    (Source: Corporate records, California Secretary of State)

Colorado

Current Status: Active

Background info  
Locations
  • Narconon Colorado
    10374 N. Federal
    Denver,
    Colorado 80221

 

News and Events
  • 1980 - Narconon program run at Lookout Mountain School for Boys is terminated.
    (Source: St. Petersburg Times, 28 Dec 1981)
     
  • 26 June 1997 - Narconon Colorado is incorporated. Its registered agent, Michael Wirsing, is listed in Scientology's Impact magazine as a Patron of the International Association of Scientologists (i.e. having donated at least $40,000 to the cause).
    (Source: Corporate records, Colorado Secretary of State)
     
  • 1 December 1999 - Narconon Colorado is dissolved.
    (Source: Corporate records, Colorado Secretary of State)
     
  • 21 October 2002 - Narconon Colorado applies for reinstatement.
    (Source: Corporate records, Colorado Secretary of State)

Connecticut

Current Status: Defunct

Background info  
Locations
  • None

 

News and Events
  • 1976 - Narconon program in the Montville Correctional Facility is terminated.
    (Source: St. Petersburg Times, 28 Dec 1981)

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  • (Date unknown) Narconon Connecticut, located in New London, is dissolved for persistent failure to file its annual report.
    (Source: Corporate records, Connecticut Secretary of State)

Delaware

Current Status: Defunct

Background info

 

Locations
  • None

 

News and Events
  • 1972 - A Narconon program is introduced into the Delaware prisons in Smyrna and Georgetown.
    (Source: Sunday News Journal, Wilmington, DE, January 2, 1977)
     
  • 1973-76 - About $60,000 in federal funds and about $6,000 in state funds is expended on the continuing Narconon programs in the Smyrna and Georgetown, DE prisons.
    (Source: Sunday News Journal, Wilmington, DE, January 2, 1977)
     
  • 1976 - A study by the Delaware State Agency to Reduce Crime contradicts Narconon's claims of success and raises doubts regarding the connection of Narconon and the Church of Scientology. In the summer of 1976 funding runs out and the program is disbanded. An investigation is launched by the intelligence unit of the state police.
    (Source: Sunday News Journal, Wilmington, DE, January 2, 1977)

Florida

Current Status: Active

Background info
  • Clearwater, Florida is Scientology's worldwide spiritual headquarters. Not surprisingly, the state branch of Narconon is located in that town.
Locations
  • Narconon Florida
    22079 US 19 North
    Clearwater, FL 33765
    Phone: (727) 796-1011
    Fax: (727) 796-1032
    Email: narconon.florida@verizon.net
    Website: http://www.narcononreferral.com
     
  • Narconon South Florida
    16800 NW 2nd Avenue, Ste 107
    North Miami, FL 33169
    Phone: (305) 690-9525
    Fax: (305) 690-9527
News and Events
  • 30 June 1976 - Narconon Florida is incorporated in Perrine.
    (Source: Corporate records, Florida Secretary of State)
     
  • 14 December 1982 - Narconon Florida is "involuntarily dissolved".
    (Source: Corporate records, Florida Secretary of State)
     
  • 3 July 1986 - Narconon of Miami is incorporated.
    (Source: Corporate records, Florida Secretary of State)
     
  • 16 November 1986 - Narconon of Miami is involuntarily dissolved.
    (Source: Corporate records, Florida Secretary of State)
     
  • 26 January 1990 - Narconon Florida is incorporated again, this time in Bradenton.
    (Source: Corporate records, Florida Secretary of State)
     
  • 9 October 1992 - Narconon Florida is dissolved again.
    (Source: Corporate records, Florida Secretary of State)
     
  • 11 August 1995 - Narconon Florida is incorporated yet again, in its present location in Clearwater. Its registered agent is one Charles Perry, a Scientologist lawyer who during the 1980s was treasurer of the involuntarily-dissolved Church of Scientology of Clearwater, Inc. He was also the principal of the now-dissolved Notawog Personal Management (sic) and the intriguingly named Freedom from the Press Association. The President is Cheryl Alderman, Executive Director of Narconon Florida, inevitably also a Scientologist.
    (Source: Corporate records, Florida Secretary of State)
     
  • 11 March 1999 - Narconon South Florida is incorporated in North Miami Beach. Its registered agent is Nadia Ingram, a Miami Scientologist (see http://scientologist.myhomepage.org/nadiaingram/myself.htm. A Marie Williams is also named as a corporate officer; this is Dr Marie Williams, named in the Miami Herald of 2 July 2001 as the person running Narconon North Beach (presumably as executive director). It is likely that this is the same Dr. Marie Williams, a podiatrist, who is cited as a satisfied customer on the website of Sterling Management (a Scientology-linked company which promotes Hubbard's "administratrative technology") - see http://www.sterling-management.com/podia/marie_williams.html. Mark Witt is named as a director; he is reported to have served as the Director of Tech Services and the Senior Sea Org Recruiter at the Church of Scientology in Miami, although his present status is not known. Jim Williams, also a director, is a Scientologist (see http://jimwilliams.our-home.org/myself.htm and runs a podiatry office, presumably that of Marie Williams (his wife?).
    (Source: Corporate records, Florida Secretary of State)
     
  • 28 March 1999 - Members of Florida's state physician's board query whether a store offering the Scientology "Purification Rundown", used in Narconon as the New Life Detoxification Program, is practicing medicine illegally.
    (Source: St. Petersburg Times, 28 March 1999)
     
  • 13 April 1999 - School authorities in Pinellas County refuse Narconon permission to lecture in schools on the grounds that its presentations do not meet school district and federal guidelines covering drug education.
    (Source: St. Petersburg Times, 13 April 1999)

Georgia

Current Status: Active

Background info  
Locations
News and Events
  • 3 August 1989 - Narconon Coastal Georgia, of Brunswick, is administratively dissolved for failure to file annual registrations.
    (Source: Corporate records, Florida Secretary of State)
     
  • 12 August 2001 - Narconon of Georgia, Inc. is incorporated in Norcross. Its chief executive officer is Mary Rieser, an Atlanta Scientologist (see http://maryrieser.our-home.org/myself.htm). Its chief financial officer is Robert V. Schmidt, an Atlanta Dentist who is also a Scientologist - his website (at http://robertvschmidt.our-home.org/myself.htm) says that he is "in the process of starting a Purification Center to rid drugs and chemicals from other people's bodies". Its secretary, Debra Macintyre, is likewise a Scientologist; she is listed as a member of the World Institute of Scientology Enterprises and in various Scientology magazines as having successfully completed a number of high-level courses.
    (Source: Corporate records, Georgia Secretary of State)
     

Idaho

Current Status: Active

Background info  
Locations
  • Narconon Idaho
    2975 Overland Avenue
    Burley, Idaho 83318
    Phone: (208) 677-2600
    Email: options@safelink.net
News and Events
  • 18 June 2001 - Narconon Idaho is incorporated in Burley by William F. Jenson, its registered agent and Executive Director. Marie Jensen (presumably his wife) is named as the President.
    (Source: Corporate records, Idaho Secretary of State)

Illinois

Current Status: Active

Background info  
Locations
  • Narconon Great Lakes-Illinois
    P.O. Box 603
    Prospect Heights, IL 60070
    Phone: 877-741-8186
News and Events
  • 1970 - Short-lived Narconon programme is established in Menard County, Illinois, but is no longer listed by January 1972.
    (Source: Major-1, circa June 1970)
     
  • 8 November 2001 - Narconon Great Lakes-Illinois is incorporated in Darien, IL by Ryan Edwards.
    (Source: Corporate records, Illinois Secretary of State)

Louisiana

Current Status: Defunct

Background info  
Locations
  • None
News and Events
  • 27 January 1975 - Narconon Louisiana is incorporated in Metairie, LA.
    (Source: Corporate records, Louisiana Secretary of State)
     
  • 25 August 1988 - Narconon of Baton Rouge is incorporated by Edward M. Gavin. This may well be Dr. Edward M. Gavin, a Baton Rouge chiropractor.
    (Source: Corporate records, Louisiana Secretary of State)
     
  • 17 November 1997 - Narconon of Baton Rouge's incorporation is revoked.
    (Source: Corporate records, Louisiana Secretary of State)
     
  • 15 May 1988 - Narconon Louisiana's incorporation is revoked.
    (Source: Corporate records, Louisiana Secretary of State)

Massachusetts

Current Status: Active

Background info  
Locations
  • Narconon New England
    Drug Prevention and Education
    76 Winn Street, Suite 2C
    Woburn, MA 01801
    Phone: (781) 569-6140
    Fax: (781) 569-6141
    Email: narconon@world.com
News and Events
  • 3 March 1999 - The Boston Herald publishes a major exposé of Scientology, including an article on Narconon's activities in Massachusetts schools, for which it is said to have received $942,853 of funding from schools and sponsors over an eight-year period.
    (Source: Boston Herald, 3 March 1998)

Michigan

Current Status: Active

Background info  
Locations
News and Events
  • 1976 - Narconon establishes itself in Michigan.
    (Source: Detroit News, 11 Feb 1980 and St. Petersburg Times, 28 Dec 1981)
     
  • March 1977 - Narconon offers the Michigan Corrections Department a free three month pilot program. With no evaluation of the program's success, the department then awards Narconon a $19,583 contract to establish a Narconon Program in Ionia State Prison, MI.
    (Source: Detroit News, 11 Feb 1980 and St. Petersburg Times, 28 Dec 1981)
     
  • 1978 - The Michigan Corrections Department awards a further $31,167 to the Ionia State Prison Narconon Program. Prisoners in three correctional facilities undergo Narconon courses.
    (Source: Detroit News, 11 Feb 1980 and St. Petersburg Times, 28 Dec 1981)
     
  • 1979 - The Michigan Corrections Department awards $35,000 to the Ionia State Prison Narconon Program.
    (Source: Detroit News, 11 Feb 1980 and St. Petersburg Times, 28 Dec 1981)
     
  • October 1979 - The Michigan Corrections Department awards another $35,000 to the Ionia State Prison Narconon Program. By now, over $120,000 of state funds has been disbursed to Narconon in Michigan.
    (Source: Detroit News, 11 Feb 1980 and St. Petersburg Times, 28 Dec 1981)
     
  • February 1980 - The Detroit News runs a major exposé of the Narconon program which has been funded by the since 1976. According to the newspaper, Scientology leaders created Narconon and ran it to recruit former addicts into the church. Courses taught were virtually identical to those offered by the Church of Scientology and included material packaged as the "Communications Course", the "Study Course", and the "Objectives Course". Michigan Corrections Dept. psychologist John Hand calls Narconon "so misleading as to be termed a con. " Hand says, "They are phony, a front for the Church of Scientology. We found out in Michigan that most of the money that we were paying Narconon was laundered back into the Church of Scientology." In the wake of the revelations, a 1980 prison study concludes that "graduates of the Narconon program do not do as well as our [prison] population in general." Funding for the program is terminated.
    (Source: Detroit News, 11 Feb 1980 and St. Petersburg Times, 28 Dec 1981; "Report of Follow-Up Study on Narconon and RAP cases", 7 April 1980)

Minnesota

Current Status: Defunct

Background info  
Locations
  • None
News and Events
  • 1976 - Minnesota Senator Rudy Boschwitz contributes $200 to Narconon. Boschwitz later insists in exchanges with Oklahoma Senators David Boren and Don Nichols, and with the Newkirk Herald Journal, that Narconon never told him of their link to Scientology. His aide, Tom Mason, has noted that the Narconon donation was a very small part of Boschwitz's estimated $56,000 in gifts to charity in 1976. However, Narconon views the senator's donation as an asset far out of proportion to its size and heavily publicises the donation as a sign of the Senator's alleged backing for their work.
    (Source: Twin Cities Reader, 1-7 October, 1981)
     
  • 1978 - A Narconon program begins in St. Cloud Reformatory for Men, St. Cloud, Minnesota. Over the next three years it receives $6,200 in Minnesota state funds and over $55,000 in federal funding. Although internal corrections department memos note problems with Scientology teachings, Narconon's link with Sen. Boschwitz prove useful to the organisation. Its grant requests frequently mention Sen. Boschwitz's donation. One prison official says, "the staff of St. Cloud thought they might have potential trouble if they kicked Narconon out of their institution, because they thought (Sen.) Rudy Boschwitz supported it." Narconon continues to operate at St. Cloud Prison despite its lack of accreditation, even after its ties to Scientology have been revealed by the press.
    (Source: Twin Cities Reader, 1-7 October, 1981)
     
  • August 1981 - Officials of the St. Cloud Reformatory for Men, St. Cloud, Minnesota raid the offices of Narconon and find, say prison sources, "more than they wanted to know about Scientology." An investigation begins on August 28, 1981, and by August 31, a prison meeting is held to deal with Narconon's links to Scientology. St. Cloud officials have had enough. In mid September the contract with the Minnesota Dept. of Corrections is terminated and the program is kicked out of the prison on 30 days' notice.
    (Source: Twin Cities Reader, 1-7 October 1981)

Missouri

Current Status: Active

Background info  
Locations
  • Narconon St Louis
    15259 Kingsman Circle
    Chesterfield,
    Missouri 63017
News and Events
  • 9 December 1974 - Narconon Missouri is incorporated in St Louis by Mary Spencer, apparently a Scientologist.
    (Source: Corporate records, Missouri Secretary of State)
     
  • 1 January 1984 - Narconon Missouri forfeits its corporate status for failure to file an annual report, and is dissolved.
    (Source: Corporate records, Missouri Secretary of State)
     
  • 1 August 2001 - Narconon St Louis is incorporated by Scott Erbschloe - as usual, a Scientologist (see http://www.myhomepage.org/scotterbschloe/myself.htm.
    (Source: Corporate records, Missouri Secretary of State)

Nevada

Current Status: Defunct

Background info  
Locations
  • None

 

News and Events
  • 1 June 1985 - Narconon Nevada's corporate status is revoked.
    (Source: Corporate records, Nevada Secretary of State)

New Mexico

Current Status: Active

Background info  
Locations
News and Events
  • 22 August 1995 - Narconon New Mexico is incorporated in Espanola, NM, but at some subsequent point has its status changed to "Not in Good Standing". Its registered agent and President is Dennis O'Brien, a New Mexico Scientologist (see http://dennisobriensr.our-home.org/myself.htm). Michael McCall, a director, is also a Scientologist and listed as a Patron of the International Association of Scientologists, meaning that he has donated at least $40,000 to that organisation.
    (Source: Corporate records, New Mexico Secretary of State)
     
  • 3 September 1996 - Narconon New Mexico's business is suspended.
    (Source: Corporate records, New Mexico Secretary of State)
     
  • 16 April 2001 - Narconon New Mexico resumes business.
    (Source: Corporate records, New Mexico Secretary of State)
     
  • 4 May 2001 - Narconon Rio Grande is incorporated in Rio Rancho, NM by its registered agent, President and Executive Director, Joshuah P. Bencke. Ronald Bencke (his son?) is named as secretary.
    (Source: Corporate records, New Mexico Secretary of State)
     
  • 30 August 2002 - The PNM Foundation awards a $7,500 grant to Narconon Rio Grande.
    (Source: New Mexico Business Weekly, 30 August 2002)

New York

Current Status: Active

Background info  
Locations
  • Narconon New York
    29-38 30th Avenue
    Astoria
    New York 11102
News and Events
  • 5 December 1973 - Narconon New York is incorporated in Queens, NY.
    (Source: Corporate records, New York Secretary of State)

Oklahoma

Current Status: Active

Background info
  • Narconon of Oklahoma is one of only a handful of Narconon facilities to be owned directly by Narconon International. The rest appear to be "franchises" started and managed by local Scientologists. The Oklahoma facility is used as Narconon's main training base.
Locations
News and Events
  • 1989 - The Association for Better Living and Education (ABLE) presents Narconon with a $200,000 check and a commendation for its work in a ceremony held at Newkirk, Oklahoma to mark Narconon's plans to open a 1,400 bed facility heralded as the world's largest treatment center for drug addicts. ABLE is subsequently revealed to be Narconon's parent body, a link not mentioned during the razzmatazz of the check handover.
    (Source: Time, 6 May 1991)
     
  • 27 April 1989 - The Newkirk Herald Journal ignites a lengthy controversy by exposing the links between Narconon and Scientology. It expresses strong disapproval of the "mental messiahs with forked tongues", commenting: "Their own propaganda says their treatments 'cannot be construed as a recommendation of medical treatment or medication and it is undertaken or delivered by anyone on his own responsibility.' In other words, if it don't work, tough cookies." It concludes that the Oklahoma Health Planning Commission "must have had its head plugged into an E-meter not to discover the true nature of this malignity."
    (Source: Newkirk Herald Journal, 27 April 1989)
     
  • 27 July 1989 - Garry Bilger, the Mayor of Newkirk, Oklahoma, begins an inquiry into Narconon's planned Chilocco facility after receiving adverse reports from at least five other states. The City Commission, Chamber of Commerce and School Board join the Mayor in urging a State review of the issue.
    (Source: Newkirk Herald Journal, 27 July 1989)
     
  • 31 August 1989 - The Newkirk Herald Journal reports that Narconon has been using private investigators to probe the private lives of people in Newkirk, Oklahoma who have been speaking out against the establishment of the Chilocco Narconon facility.
    (Source: Newkirk Herald Journal, 31 August 1989)
     
  • 1990 - Having previously publicly stated that it would comply with Oklahoma Health Department requirements and all other State laws, Narconon tells KFOR-TV that its Chilocco facility is on Indian land, and not subject to Oklahoma rules and laws.
     
  • 2 August 1990 - The Oklahoma State Health Department applies for an injunction to halt Narconon's operations at Chilocco.
    (Source: Newkirk Herald Journal, 2 August 1990)
     
  • 13 September 1990 - District Judge Neat Beckman orders the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health to determine by October whether the Narconon Chilocco New Life Center, operating without state approval, should be certified to remain open. In the meantime, the center will be allowed to operate, but is prohibited from accepting new patients.
    (Source: Daily Oklahoman, 13 September 1990)
     
  • 18 October 1991 - The Oklahoma Board of Mental Health begins hearings into the safety and effectiveness of the treatment modality utilized by Narconon.
     
  • 24 October 1991 - Narconon Chilocco is granted a further licensing delay by the Oklahoma State Board of Mental Health, pending the outcome of its review of Narconon's therapeutic practices.
    (Source: Newkirk Herald Journal, 24 October 1991)
     
  • 13 December 1991 - The Oklahoma State Board of Mental Health finds that Narconon's therapy is "not effective in the treatment of chemical dependency" and "is not medically safe". It refuses Narconon Chilocco's request for certification for services to a 75-bed residential drug and alcohol center established on Federal land owned by the Chilocco Development Authority.
    (Source: Findings of Fact regarding the Narconon-Chilocco Application For Certification by the Board of Mental Health, State of Oklahoma, 13 December 1991)
     
  • 31 January 1992 - Oklahoma County district Judge Freeman denies a request from Narconon Chilocco New Life Center to remain open and accept new patients because the facility never has been licensed.
    (Source: Daily Oklahoman, 31 January 1992)
     
  • 31 January 1992 - Narconon Chilocco New Life Center is ordered to move its patients out and stop providing drug and alcohol abuse treatment in 10 days. Oklahoma County District Judge John Amick sets the Feb. 10 deadline after he denies another request from the unlicensed facility to remain open and admit new patients.
    (Source: Daily Oklahoman, 6 February 1992)
     
  • 5 March 1992 - Narconon's lawyers argue in court that it is exempt from state regulations under the cloak of Indian sovereignty. But state lawyers, in a hearing in which the Oklahoma State Department of Health is seeking a court injunction to shut down Narconon Chilocco, say the facility' s location is not enough to claim Indian sovereignty. Narconon Chilocco is a non-Indian entity that treats non-Indians, says Robert Cole, a lawyer for the Health Department.
    (Source: Daily Oklahoman, 5 March 1992)
     
  • 12 March 1992 - The president of the Narconon Chilocco facility announces that it will continue to treat patients despite receiving notice from the Bureau of Indian Affairs that it should close because it has violated the terms of its lease.
    (Source: Newkirk Herald Journal, 12 March 1992)
     
  • 11 June 1992 - The Newkirk City Commission withdraws fire and ambulance protection from the Narconon Chilocco facility because the latter have reportedly not been paying their bills to the city.
    (Source: Daily Oklahoman, 11 June 1992)
     
  • 20 August 1992 - After Narconon gains certification from the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitative Facilities (CARF), the Oklahoma Board of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services votes unanimously to exempt the Narconon Chilocco facility from a requirement to be certified by the state.
    (Source: Daily Oklahoman, 20 August 1992)
     
  • 27 October 1992 - Narconon is granted a license from the Oklahoma State Department of Health, marking the first time since it opened for business more than two years ago that it officially can be called legal. The license is good for a year and can be renewed. State licensing makes it easier for Narconon Chilocco or its patients to get reimbursement for its services through insurance companies.
    (Source: Daily Oklahoman, 27 October 1992)
     
  • 25 February 1993 - The State of Oklahoma issues a warrant ordering Narconon to pay overdue taxes; the payment comes two days later. Indian leaders on whose land the Chilocco facility is based are also unhappy. "They haven't paid us with a payment since last September."
    (Source: Daily Oklahoman, 25 February 1993)
     
  • 7 June 1995 - Five Indian tribes in Chilocco, Oklahoma do not want to deal with Narconon any longer but have decided to leave the matter to the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Narconon has a 25-year lease for the Chilocco site. The tribes had expected to receive a total of $16 million for this time; but Narconon has only 75 instead of the 1,000 expected beds, therefore the payments have been much lower. The tribes have received about $10,000 a year.
    (Source: Associated Press, 7 June 1995)
     
  • 2000 - The Association for Better Living and Education purchases the former Arrowhead Lodge in northern Oklahoma from the Choctaw Nation, for a sum of $1.9 million.
     
  • 1 July 2001 - Narconon begins the process of moving to Arrowhead Lodge. The Chilocco facility is said to have had 2,029 clients since it opened; in 2000, 352 students enrolled and 185 graduated (a graduation rate of 52.5%) and so far in 2001, 350 entered and 189 have graduated (a rate of 54%). An overall success rate of 70-74% is claimed by executive director Gary Smith.
    (Source: The Oklahoman, 1 July 2001)
     
  • 16 September 2001 - A local man is arrested at the gates of Arrowhead State Park after apparently attempting to smuggle methamphetemine, marijuana and beer into Narconon Arrowhead.
    (Source: Daily Oklahoman, 18 September 2001)
     
  • 2002 - Narconon Chilocco shuts down and transfers formally to Arrowhead.

Texas

Current Status: Defunct

Background info  
Locations
  • None

 

News and Events
  • 28 November 1975 - Narconon is incorporated in Texas.
    (Source: Corporate records, Texas Secretary of State)

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  • 13 March 1978 - Narconon Texas has its charter revoked for failure to pay a franchise tax.
    (Source: Corporate records, Texas Secretary of State)

Virginia

Current Status: Active

Background info  
Locations
News and Events
  • 23 September 1999 - Narconon Washington DC is incorporated in Falls Church, Virginia by Yvonne Rodgers, a local Scientologist (see http://yvonnerodgers.our-home.org/myself.htm)
    (Source: Corporate records, Texas Secretary of State)

Wisconsin

Current Status: Active

Background info  
Locations
  • Narconon Racine
    1621 Villa Street
    Racine
    Wisconsin 53403
News and Events
  • 18 September 2002 - Narconon Racine is incorporated by local resident Kandy Helson.
    (Source: Corporate records, Wisconsin Secretary of State)