Narconon is owned by Scientology and has tax exempt status, which makes this scam even more disturbing since they keep all the money and pay no taxes, claiming it is a church.
A young adult will be admitted into the program while the family hopes he or she will clean up their act while in treatment. Eventually the parents are told their child is doing well and they would like to have him or her work as a teacher in the program. Many of them are never paid a dime despite promises of compensation.
Many of the misguided kids will bring in drugs which are then confiscated by the staff. These drugs are often injested by the staff, who only days earlier were students and not teachers/staff. When the teacher fails a drug test, they are kicked out of the program. Or when the addict is told they failed. They have no reason to be honest and they aren't.
This is how Fresh Start Narconon makes even more money: The parents or family signed a lease/rental agreement that allowed the addict to be promoted from a teacher to a student, with the contingency that they don't fail a drug test.
The family is left paying for rent for months and months at a place in the middle of nowhere where the addict cannot live. This way the same unit can be rented to several people at once, possibly with nobody living in the place at all. Yes they offer financing for the treatment. The lease agreement can be for 6 months or more. The family ends up paying for a loan of about $38,000 and then 6 months rent.
Most families are ruined financially because they didn't do their homework and the salespeople scare the family to death.
Fresh Start Narconon is not a registered rehab center. It is a band of litigious criminals ruining the lives of families that have already been shattered by drug abuse, and they are doing it tax free.
They will tell you they are completely separate from Scientology. That is not the case.