Lucas Catton was first a “student” at Narconon’s flagship facility, Narconon Arrowhead, in Canadian, OK. He quickly rose to become the facility’s president and a high-ranking member of the Church of Scientology before renouncing both the program and the church.

In his autobiography, Have You Told All? Inside My Time with Narconon and Scientology, Catton writes:

It looks like this really is the beginning of the end for Narconon and Scientology. There are too many mounting civil lawsuits and there are inevitable criminal charges looming from the blatant mistreatment and deception of people. There are also an increasing number of people waking up, walking away and speaking out through books, media, blogs, forums and other ways.

Their only hope, in my opinion, is to shed the inhumane procedures that have left them in these situations and that have harmed so many people. Narconon either needs to come clean and say it is a faith-based organization or it needs to comply with recognized treatment practices and oversight. A failure to do either one of those will only be further deception and will result in continuing facility closures and bankruptcy for Narconon International. The network will be disbanded and individual centers will be scrambling to stay open by changing their names and getting rid of anything associated with the word Narconon.