Agent Orange victims to get Scientology 'detox'
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A warning sign stands in a field contaminated with dioxin near Danang airport, during a ceremony marking the start of a project to clean up dioxin left over from the Vietnam War, at a former US military base in Danang, Vietnam Thursday Aug 9, 2012. -- PHOTO: AP
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) - Alleged victims of Agent Orange in Vietnam are set to receive a controversial "detoxification" treatment developed by the Church of Scientology.
Scientologists use the "Hubbard Method" - which involves saunas and vitamins - to try to cure drug addiction and alcoholism. The church set up a center in New York after the 9/11 attacks offering a similar service for first responders who may have been exposed to toxins.
Many researchers have criticized the method as pseudoscientific and useless.
A hospital official and state-controlled media said 24 people were at a Hanoi hospital on Thursday waiting for the programme. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to speak to the media.
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