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Recovery House Evaluation – Narconon New Life

Filed under: All Narconon Programs, California, United States

Narconon Location: Narconon New Life, Los Angeles, California
Author of Formal Report: Forest S. Tennant, Jr., M.D., Dr.P.H.; Jane Thomas, R.N.; Mike Reilly; and Joseph Shannon, M.D., M.P.H.
Date of Formal Report October 31, 1974

Summary:

In 1973, California passed a bill, Senate Bill 714, which would allocate funds for treatment alternatives to existing methods such jails and prisons, probation and parole, civil commitment, and court orders. This included residential facilities called Recovery Houses and Therapeutic Communities. Narconon New Life sought funding through this bill. Since public funding was involved, the State of California required evaluations of the programs receiving money. This document is the evaluation of the Narconon New Life program as it was being run in 1974, submitted to the California State Department of Health.

Local link to Formal Report: http://narcononreviews.net/documents/formal_reports/FormalReport-1974-CaliforniaStateDepartmentOfPublicHealth-EvaluationOfNarcononNewLife.pdf

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See also the related Outline for Recovery House Evaluation - Narconon New Life document.

Subject: 1974 Report on Narconon
From: referen@ibm.net (Diane Richardson)
Date: Sat, 05 Aug 1995 13:08:58 GMT

This is an old report, but I think the data it contains can still shed a lot of light on how Narconon works. A brief explanation of the report's provenance is in order.

Back in 1974, Narconon New Life of Los Angeles was receiving California state funds through what was known as the Short Doyle act, which allocated money to alternative drug treatment programs -- recovery houses, therapeutic communities, and the like. This evaluation was conducted at the request of the California State Department of Health by a team composed of Forest S. Tennant, Jr., M.D., Dr.P.H., Jane Thomas, R.N., Mike Reilly, and Joseph Shannon, M.D., M.P.H. It was submitted to Don Z. Miller, Deputy Director, Health Treatment System, State Department of Health, Sacramento, CA, on 31 Oct 1974.
1974 report on Narconon.

More information about these Narconon locations:
All Narconon Programs, California, United States