On September 15, the Trump administration nominated former criminal investigator and Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association president Jon Adler as the Department of Justice's director of the Bureau of Justice Assistance. In that role, Adler will not only help set national criminal justice policy, he'll also oversee all relevant state and local grant programs. Judging by one of Adler's initiatives, this should make the Church of Scientology very, very happy.

That's because in addition to his official role at FLEOA, Adler spent a number of years on the advisory board of the Heroes Health Fund, a group that purports to offer support for "firefighters, police, EMTs, veterans, and others harmed by toxic exposures in the line of duty" using a detoxification program developed by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard.

That program has existed under a variety of names over the years, including Purif, the Purification Rundown, Narconon, and the Hubbard Method. It posits that bodies and spirits can be "purified" through a combination of extensive sauna-induced sweat sessions, a niacin-heavy multivitamin, light exercise, and the consumption of pure vegetable oil. Hubbard, of course, had no medical training of any kind, and his detoxification method has been denounced by countless institutions and medical professionals, such as the Los Angeles and San Francisco school districts, the California Medical Association, the National Council Against Health Fraud, and a former Surgeon General of the United States.

The Church has also tried to sell its detoxification methods to the public in the form of a number of different programs; those that target veterans and law enforcement officers now live under the general umbrella of the Heroes Health Fund, itself a product of the International Academy of Detoxification Specialists, a membership group that describes itself as "united by an interest in the use of the detoxification procedure developed by L. Ron Hubbard to address the problems of chemical exposure and drug abuse."

Adler is currently listed as a member of Heroes Health's advisory board (albeit with his first name slightly misspelled) along with prominent Scientologists John Travolta, Kelly Preston, and Danny Masterson.

The official Scientology website even has a section for its detoxification program under the explanation of Auditing (a one-on-one, deeply personal interview process that is supposed to free the participant of spiritual burdens). Here, it's referred to as the Purification Rundown, which was developed by Hubbard when he decided that the toxins present in our modern world "can prevent any stable advancement in mental or spiritual well-being" (or in Scientology terms, they can prevent someone from reaching the ultimate state of enlightenment and "going clear").