George: First let me explain what her plans were when she had the stroke. Her primary goal was to obtain FDA approval for her treatment to be used in the United States, but as their requirements were expanded she agreed to help set up a charity NET drug treatment clinic for the poor in Tijuana, Mexico, in association with other medical and surgical clinics run by medical missionary colleagues and known as Real Life Ministries (RLM). This NET clinic was established and the staff trained at the end of October, 1999. A week later my wife had a stroke in the night and we had to change our plans radically.

Dan: Before we go on to discuss those plans let me ask what has happened in the Tijuana clinic in the almost three years since her stroke?

George: Over three hundred patients have been treated, either directly off the street or referrals from some of the twenty-three Christian addiction rehabilitation organisations operating in Tijuana. They send their worst addicts for the six to ten days of treatment and then RLM returns them to their respective organisations for the follow-up rehabilitation. Meanwhile, RLM has also an out-patient visiting program by medical team to treat addicts in the various rehabilitation organisations on site. About two hundred of these addicts have professed faith in Christ as support in recovery.

Dan: Has there been no interest from the United States in this Mexico project?

George: Oh, yes. There have been enquiries and even visits by doctors and media journalists. CBS-TV did a program called The Vanishing Cure in the year 2000; and I have heard since that a former California State legislator has been actively involved in organising a NET clinic in Orange County which would be the first in the United States. That would be an exciting development for us.

Dan: But I thought you said you first had to get FDA approval for that?

George: Yes, so I believed. But she maintains that California has some sort of special State law that permits her to organise this NET clinic. You would have to ask her to explain this!

Dan: So, in April, 2001, you returned to Scotland with your wife, Dr. Meg, and apparently the end of a world-wide vision?

George: No, it was a radical change of direction. While we were establishing the Tijuana clinic we had been developing contacts with other interested countries—Australia, Pakistan, China, Ireland and Russia. But my wife's seriously disabled condition required her to be under professional care, and one of the best places for this was in Scotland. This meant we were returning to a medically prejudiced Britain whose doctors were totally committed to a pharmacological—or treatment by drugs—rather than by a bioelectric treatment like NET.

Dan: Wasn't that also true of the United States?

George: To a certain degree. But there are a number of bioelectric treatments officially available in the United States, such as for pain, or depression. Theoretically, in Britain, these are available; but so-called mainstream doctors prefer and prescribe drugs—especially for addicts. They systematically, and tendentiously, misrepresented my wife's work without ever contacting her directly or addressing her research that was widely respected in the United States and other countries.

Dan: So, you return to Scotland and a prejudiced medical profession What then?

George: Even before I arrived in Scotland I heard from a TV producer friend that there had been a report a few days before in the Scottish media that the Salvation Army had opened their first heroin clinic in Glasgow, with others to follow. Would I like him to contact them? I told him to do so, and from that call we have agreed to have a demonstration of NET in the next few months in Glasgow, with representatives of the Salvation Army and three other drug treatment organisations in Glasgow and Edinburgh, Scotland's leading cities, to be monitored by the Health authorities.

Dan: What about the other countries you had been hoping to visit?

George: We had to put them back on the shelf while we coped with my wife's deteriorating condition. Our son, Lorne, who has been my wife's senior clinician, kept in touch with their most urgent requirements. Then, again unexpectedly, we had an urgent appeal from missionaries in Romania who were working among the 20,000 abandoned and drug-addicted street children, mostly living in underground sewers and exploited by drug dealers and other criminals. They have obtained permission from the authorities for us to establish and train them in NET.

Dan: So, even without Dr Meg you are confident her NET treatment will expand across the world?

George: Yes. Our son, Lorne, as I said, has always been the hands-on trainer of medical staff and treater of patients, in setting up clinics. Our other son, Sean, is a scientist specialising in nerve regeneration, and has been my wife's NET scientific consultant not only in addictions but also in her anticipated expansion into the NET for paralysis diseases such as Parkinson's Disease. The engineer-designer for her complex electronic medical device is our son-in-law, Joe Winston. So we are confidently moving forward. We are now actively seeking an experienced commercial chief executive officer, and financial investment for the manufacturing and distribution of the devices.

Dan: Will the devices be restricted to Christian-based medical clinics in the world-wide expansion?

George: No. We will be selling to whoever wants to buy them for addiction detoxification purposes—governments, hospitals, clinics, doctors—whether religious of any kind or not. But it is important to remember that addiction detoxification is only half the cure; the other half of the sure requires spiritual rehabilitation. That is evident from the statistical superiority of religious organisations like the Salvation Army, or AA and its off-shoots. We will continue to set up one Christian-based NET detoxification and spiritual rehabilitation clinic in each country, and will keep detailed statistical records to demonstrate to the world the superiority of our NET treatment against other forms of treatment.

Dan: You mentioned NET research into other forms of treatment, such as the paralysis diseases: will this continue?

George: Yes, we are planning to set up a Dr. Meg Patterson Research Trust to first of all do research into NET and the possible treatment of strokes because, if she had recovered, I am certain that she would have wanted to pursue this because of its devastating effects; also, because other scientists researching in the field of bioelectricity had been producing interesting results, and she herself knew how to electronically stimulate the body's mechanisms to produce dopamine and serotonin.

This interview first appeared on www.assist-ministries.com

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