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46th ECSA Health Ministers' Conference

SEYCHELLES: In February, 2008, President Narconon International Clark Carr was invited to Seychelles (just north of Madagascar) to attend an important health conference. The annual Eastern, Central, and South African Ministers of Health Conference hosted more than 16 nations and discussed the serious health issues of this part of the African continent. Clark presented a briefing to 14 different national health ministers and 100 other dignitaries on Narconon’s effective rehabilitation program model. He additionally gave a full drug education training session to over 100 teachers and educators. Drugs and alcohol are matters of serious concern in these countries, as they are globally, and follow up meetings were held with several ministers regarding how to address these problems within the means available.

Health Minister at the Seychelles conference

INDIA: In September, 2008, also by invitation, Clark presented a scientific paper in Mumbai, India at the 2008 HOPE International Conference. This case study compares 20 Narconon sauna detoxification case completions from 2005 to 20 cases in 2008, noting particularly how, without the use of pharmaceuticals, there had been significantly parallel self-reported improvements in numerous personality characteristics, including relieved depression and anxiety.

2008 HOPE Conference, Mumbai, India

Following the conference, a visit was made to the Narconon drug education center in New Delhi, where Clark presented a First Step training workshop and drug educator training. Plans are being finalized to train staff and prepare facilities to open a residential Narconon center in New Delhi in the near future.

IRAN: From India, Clark flew to Iran to present at the International Conference on Traditional and Complementary Medicine in Sari, Iran. Clark, the only American present, delivered his paper on the Narconon First Step Program to the more than 300 attendees from Iran, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and other nations.

Narconon First Step demonstration, Iran

The conference looked at the traditions of philosophy and medicine as related activities in Central and East Asia and at the contributions that both ancient and contemporary traditional medicine can make. The nutritionally based Narconon program fits right in with these concepts. Clark invited the doctors and other presenters to come to the West and share their ideas with Western culture which is increasingly creating an artificial divide between science and philosophy.