...My group paper was on the Church of Scientology and L. Ron Hubbard...

The program, Narconon Drug Prevention & Education, "often exemplifies the outdated, non-evidence-based and sometimes factually inaccurate approach, which has not served students well for decades," concluded Steve Heilig, director of health and education for the San Francisco Medical Society...

...A local Scientologist who provides the Narconon lectures has made presentations to students of all ages in San Francisco schools since 1991. At least 34 city schools have hosted the lecturer since 2000...

...Clark Carr, president of Narconon International, disputed the findings and emphasized that the Narconon program opposed drugs of all kinds, including drugs used to treat addictions. He accused the medical society of preferring programs that rely on a useless "drug-based medical solution."...)

The program is called Narconon Drug Prevention and Education. The director of health and education for the San Francisco Medical Society says the program contains outdated and innaccurate information...)

Ackerman's decision followed a review of the Narconon Drug Prevention & Education Program by school health officials, who found that some of its teachings were not "100 percent accurate."...)

Thanks to the course, she stumbled upon a surprise subject - the Church of Scientology.

The Study Technology curriculum relies on the educational writings of L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of the Scientology movement...)

recent two-part series by Times staff writer Robert Farley revealed that Scientology is well on its way to achieving domination in Clearwater's core, where there has been little investment by others. The story also detailed how a city government that once branded Scientology as a cult and a hostile interloper now finds it needs to partner with the only real player downtown...)

At a press conference today in East Los Angeles, O'Connell will announce that the California Healthy Kids Resource Center, a public agency in Hayward, will look at what Narconon is teaching thousands of students in its hourlong presentations at dozens of schools each year...)

It wasn't a spur-of-the-moment decision at all, but rather a resolution that had been simmering more than six months in quiet negotiations at the St. Petersburg law offices of mediator Michael Keane...)

...Campus chaplains were asked to specifically identify cults that have been on their campus. Only 40% of respondents chose to participate in this portion of the survey. Of those, 82% identified the Boston Movement. Others specifically mentioned by respondents were: Scientology, Unification Church...)

Lisa McPherson, 36, died in 1995 after 17 days of care by Scientology staffers. The lawsuit, filed by her family, spawned a number of related legal actions as McPherson's death became a rallying point for an anti-Scientology movement...)

The church has accused Armstrong of breaching an agreement stating that he could not talk about the Church of Scientology in public. This week, a Marin County judge set the trial date for the case for April 9.

Armstrong is a former Scientology insider who joined the church in 1969, left the fold in 1981 and later became one of the movement's harshest critics...)

SCIENTOLOGISTS are using fronts called "Drug Free Ambassadors" and "Kids For A Drug Free Future" to dupe councils into giving them information stalls and stage time at family events.

The City of Frankston unknowingly granted the Scientology religion, founded by science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard, stage time at the Frankston Sea Festival this month.

Events run by Whitehorse and Yarra City Councils have also unwittingly played host to either stage performances or stalls run by the group.

Maxine Sando, events co-ordinator for the Frankston City Council, said she was not aware the group calling itself the Drug Free Ambassadors was run by the Church of Scientology...

... A spokeswoman for the Melbourne Church of Scientology, Pauline Priest, defended the lack of disclosure about Drug Free Ambassadors...)

...Years ago, Leiby, as a young Clearwater, Fla., newspaper reporter, went up against Scientology and its movable conspiracy. Scientologists secretly chased after him, investigated his personal life, investigated his girlfriends and tried to smear and intimidate him. They did the same thing to the mayor of Clearwater, Gabe Cazares, who had criticized them for moving their headquarters into Clearwater (which they now dominate, by the way).

The other day, a former Scientologist operative named Gary Weber, who admits that more than 20 years ago he labored to destroy them, made to Leiby and to Cazares a surprising public apology. Weber apologizes on the Internet here.

Leiby told us he admired Weber for coming forward after all these years. "I accept his apology, but I regret that this group investigated the young ladies I was dating back then. The dispiriting thing is that Scientology operatives found no dirt on me when I was 22, footloose and fancy-free. Was I so boring?"

What the Scientologists did to Cazares was proved later by the FBI through documents seized in a raid on Scientology offices. Scientologists "roped" Cazares in a sting involving a half-dozen people following a scripted scenario...)