Purification Program:
Rehabilitating a Drugged and Poisoned World

Our planet has hit a barrier which prevents any widespread social progress – drugs and other biochemical substances.

The culture was severely harmed by the massive proliferation of drugs which began in the 1960s and today continues unabated. For many years prior to that turbulent decade, psychiatrists had busily endorsed the use of drugs as a solution to a multitude of mental and emotional conditions. LSD, for example (and L. Ron Hubbard warned of its danger to society as early as 1951) was heavily promoted and used by psychiatry during the 1950s and 1960s as a treatment for mental conditions. Subsequently, it was pushed out into the society and billed as a means of attaining enlightenment. In such a wise, the illegal street drug market boomed. Narcotics, stimulants and other substances found wider and wider acceptance in the society. Abuse of such drugs, once confined to a small segment of the population, grew to epidemic proportions in the 1960s among college students and spread from there.

Abetted by giant pharmaceutical firms and much media attention, psychiatry made drug taking an acceptable, mainstream activity for many. In addition to LSD, drug companies unleashed a torrent of drugs into the society – heroin, methadone and countless tranquilizers among others – that have proven to be nightmares for mankind. Added to an increasing use of marijuana, mescaline and other psychedelics, the availability and acceptability of drugs increased enormously.

A common tactic to gain acceptance for a pharmaceutical drug is to release it amid massive public relations campaigns professing the drug’s efficacy and safety. But often, cases discrediting the claims of safety and revealing instead harmful side effects soon begin to accumulate. In the mid-1800s, opium addiction begat morphine which was touted by the medical establishment as nonaddictive treatment for opium addiction. But by 1870, morphine was recognized as more addictive than opium. This led to the development of heroin, extolled as a nonaddictive substitute for morphine. Within fifteen years this claim had clearly been shown to be otherwise. Following World War II, psychiatrists began pushing a new drug, methadone, as a cure for heroin addiction, thus foisting a century-old con game on a growing number of victims – all while reaping huge appropriations of public funding for its implementation.

Other prescription drugs such as Valium, Librium, Xanax, Oraflex, Halcion and Prozac were all claimed to be safe, but each has been found to have harmful side effects. Psychiatrists have earned hundreds of millions of dollars prescribing these drugs – and then treating the problems created by their own prescriptions.

The pharmaceutical drug companies reap huge profits, literally tens of billions of dollars a year, from the widespread use of drugs to treat an ever-increasing list of symptoms for new illnesses "discovered" each year by the psychiatric profession. Drugs have, for example, even become entrenched in the educational system. Today, a child labeled "hyperactive" can be given the psychiatric drug Ritalin in the classroom. And hundreds of psychiatric drugs are consumed by millions to "solve" a multitude of modern problems such as sleeplessness, nervousness, stress or just plain boredom.

We live in a chemical-oriented society. The Environmental Protection Agency reports that the average American consumes 4 pounds of pesticides each year and has residues from over 400 toxic substances in his body. More than 3,000 chemical additives are found in food we eat.

These illnesses, all of which are given credence with sophisticated names, become official during the American Psychiatric Association’s annual convention. Psychiatrists proffer a newly discovered illness and a vote is taken, with a majority consensus creating an official new disease. Why "official"? Official diseases can be treated and paid for by insurance companies, and in that way the psychiatric-drug manufacturer coalition ensures an ever-increasing source of income. Without question this is the greatest fraud of the twentieth century. It remains suppressed through the billions of dollars vested interests have at their disposal for high-tech PR campaigns and expensive marketing strategies, which in turn create the advertising revenues for a media which would be financially crippled if it exposed the scam.

All this is quite in addition to the widespread consumption of illegal drugs (many of which were originally prescription drugs), which are figured to be a 500 billion dollar a year industry in themselves. By some estimates, marijuana is now the biggest cash crop in America. Cocaine and its derivatives became very fashionable in the 1970s and are now widely abused, due in part to false data from psychiatrists who claimed as recently as 1980 in their own texts that cocaine usage was not addictive. They could not have been more wrong. Many medical and psychiatric drugs – heroin, LSD, methadone, Methedrine and tranquilizers, to name a few – were poorly controlled by those professions and allowed to proliferate on the illegal market, further exacerbating the problem. Right now, the most widely prescribed antidepressant, Prozac, is also the hottest kid on the block in the illegal street drug market.

Drug taking seems to be part of being alive in our modern world.

Additionally, technological advances this century have produced many unfavorable byproducts harmful to an individual’s well-being. Smog, for instance, was unknown before the rise of manufacturing centers in Britain. Every major city on Earth now advises its inhabitants daily about the quality of air they are breathing. A hundred years ago, the main food preservatives were salt or ice. Today, nearly any packaged food has a list of the artificial ingredients it contains that is longer than the list of natural ingredients. Environmental disasters such as Chernobyl, to say nothing of radiation exposure from widespread nuclear bomb testing, did not exist fifty years ago.

There is no escaping our contaminated civilization and, furthermore, it has been found that these substances can put individuals in a condition which prevents personal improvement.

The drug problem was not of major concern in 1950 when L. Ron Hubbard released Dianetics. By the 1960s, however, the frightful specter of drugs had arrived and Mr. Hubbard’s research showed that this was a major barrier to a person’s spiritual betterment. Drugs, he discovered, affect the mind adversely and block any progress in auditing.

The way a being perceives much of existence is via the sensory channels of the body. The body is a communications center for the being, with the brain acting as a switchboard for translating thought into action. The biochemical actions of drugs alter the normal operations of this pattern, often with harmful or even disastrous consequences.

L. Ron Hubbard researched this barrier to spiritual freedom long before it was recognized by others as the huge social concern it is today. His work yielded a truly effective handling for the adverse biochemical effects of drugs and other toxins.

He made the discovery that residues from drugs and other toxins lodge in the fatty tissues of the body and stay there, even years after they have been ingested. And that these residues can continue to affect the individual adversely long after the effect of the drug has apparently worn off. Such deposits have been known to cause lessened perception, tiredness, confused thinking and a host of other symptoms in people – all of which are counter to what is being achieved through auditing. Cases have been documented where a person reexperienced the effects of LSD years after having taken the drug.

Realizing that this biochemical factor had to be handled before any lasting spiritual gain could be made through auditing, L. Ron Hubbard devised what independent researchers acknowledge as the most effective detoxification program in existence, the Purification program.

Developed solely as a handling for this barrier to spiritual gain caused by drugs, the Purification program is a carefully designed combination of exercise, vitamins, nutrition and sauna use which dislodges drug residues and other toxins from the fatty tissues so that these substances can then be eliminated from the body. A person undergoing the program is closely monitored by specially trained personnel in liaison with medical doctors to ensure that each aspect of the program is administered correctly and the desired benefits are attained.

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