Complaint Review: Narconon Stone Hawk

DRUG REHAB OR MONEY SCAM
YOU DECIDE
Narconon Rehabilitation Centers are all over the world. There is twelve Narconon Rehabilitation Centers in the United States. They are based on the findings of William Benitez and were fully developed by L. Ron Hubbard. L. Ron Hubbard is also the founder of Scientology.
Narconon boast a 60 to 70 % success rate in their Drug Rehabilitation Center. The National average is 10 to 20%.

The Narconon program cost approx $23,500 and this money has to be paid up front upon enter the program. The Narconon program is a non-refundable program and is a 3 to 6 month program. The Narconon program has a Drug-Free Withdrawal where they administered vitamins and Cal-Mag (a drink combination of calcium and magnesium) every six hours. They also have a sauna portion of the
program where they begin sweating and elimination toxins (such as drugs) out of your body.

On June 30th 2006 we entered our son into Narconon Stone Hawk Drug Rehabilitation Center of Battle Creek, Michigan at a cost of $23,500.
(This is a 3 to 6 month program and money had to be paid upon entering the program). After checking him in they took him right to Detox.

After a few days our son finished the detox withdrawal part of the program. Our son started the next phase of the program (Therapeutic Training Routines Course) which teaches one's ability to confront and communicate.
On July 18th around 7:00pm (18 days into the program) they loaded my son's belongings and drove him 26 miles away to a motel room and dropped him off. They paid for his room and gave him $10.00. He was over 400 miles from home.

On July 27th we got a hold of the owner of Narconon Stone Hawk (PerWickstrom) and he told us that there would be No Refund. On September 16, 2006 I had the opportunity to talk to Clark Carr, (president of Narconon) about my situation. 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 and his final answer was that I was not going to receive any refund. On October 6, I made the trip to Manistee 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.

How can a Narconon Drug Rehabilitation Center get away with this type of abuse? I turned to them for help and they dumped my son in a motel 18 days later and over 300 miles from home. Is this a common practice for all the Narconon Centers?
Still waiting on my $23,500 refund
cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Stop-Narconon/Personal/Beha/

Gregory
glouster,, Ohio
U.S.A.