My name is Patty Pieniadz, I am an Ex-Scientologist and I've been an
on and off lurker on a.r.s. for a couple of years.

After reading what OSA has been doing to Chuck Beatty and witnessing
his strength and courage, I have decided to delurk and tell my
stories.

This post is my "short story". I have written up more of my stories
in Scn and will post them soon.

I became involved with Scn in 1973 at the Narconon program in New
London, Connecticut. I was 18 years old at the time. I had been
accepted to the University of Connecticut but I dropped out and joined
the VISTA volunteers, which was a sort of a Peace Corps program for
the impoverished areas of the US.

I became a heavy drug user and came to a point in my life where I
realized I had to handle my drug problem. That decision led me to
Narconon and then directly to Scientology.