President of Narconon Intl drug rehabilitation network visits Nepal

“We could not be prouder of the extraordinary dedication and example set by Basanta and Pooja Kunwar,” says Clark Carr, president of the international Narconon network. Mr. Carr is here from Los Angeles, California along with two colleagues for this coming week to observe the developing Narconon Nepal drug rehabilitation program, adopted by the Pratigya Foundation here in Kathmandu. With Carr are Kathy Thomas, Narconon’s senior technical program supervisor, and Tom Widmann, Director of Construction and Estates for Narconon Arrowhead, the Narconon network’s international training center in Oklahoma, USA.

In addition to visiting Narconon Nepal, they will also travel to the construction site of the new 150-bed residential treatment center currently being built by Pratigya Narconon Nepal on Hubbard Peak out in Kakani. The site has been renamed after L. Ron Hubbard, American philosopher and humanitarian on whose methodology the Narconon program is based.

When asked what is the expanse of the Narconon network at this time? “We now have over 150 drug rehabilitation and/or drug prevention or education centers in 50 countries,” says Carr. These centers span every continent, the largest being Arrowhead with 230 beds and some smaller such as Narconon Denmark. “Denmark has been saving lives for 25 years,” says Carr, “and that is the only reason we do what we do – to save the lives of those who have been unlucky enough to become trapped by alcohol and/or other drugs.”

“Where will Narconon Nepal’s new rehab center fall into the mix?” When complete, Nepal’s Narconon will be the second largest residential rehabilitation treatment center in the network, followed by a 100-bed center in southern Italy. Basanta and Pooja Kunwar intend, they say, to make this center not only the finest in Nepal, but a dissemination point to expand this unique, workable drug rehab technique throughout Asia.

Pooja Kunwar has received technical instruction, training, and internship in the Narconon rehabilitation methodology at the center in Melbourne, Australia as well as at the Narconon United Kingdom center in Hastings on the southwest coast of England.

One important part of Narconon International’s supervisory function with its network of licensed, charitable programs around the world is to do quality-of-service inspections and on-site, in-service trainings. Mr. Carr says that the 44-year-old Narconon network has a consistent success rate for its programs worldwide of approximately 75%. Our social education model has demonstrated that a person truly wanting to recover his life from the clutches and misery of drug addiction can achieve a stably ethical, productive and drug-free life. We regularly monitor our students after their program completion.”

“Director Kunwar and his wife have already produced many drug-free graduates who are fine citizens, living ethical lives here or abroad and some now dedicated to working with Pratigya Narconon to save the lives of other Nepalese,” says Carr.

For more information on the Narconon program, you may visit http://www.narconon.org/ or call 977-1437-0989 in Kathmandu.