November 24, 2025
Dear Bill,
I hope you are doing very well, and that your medical tests bring good results. I’m truly happy to hear that your energy is strong and improving.
I’m also doing well. Over the past 45 days, I’ve been able to visit several branches—one at a university on Qeshm Island, which I traveled to by plane, and another in Isfahan, where we have around 15 branches in that province. I also traveled to Mashhad, where we likewise have around 15 branches. It’s worth mentioning that in these cities we also have construction projects underway, so I visited those as well.
You wrote that in the United States some addiction treatment programs have collapsed due to poor management.
Yes, you are absolutely right. There are countless organizations and NGOs around the world that, over time, grow weak and gradually fade away. Money in these organizations is like protein in the body—because, as you know, protein is an essential substance responsible for building muscles, and the human body cannot store it. Fats and carbohydrates, on the other hand, can be stored. So if the body doesn’t receive protein, it begins to burn and consume its own muscles. This deterioration continues until all the muscles are depleted and the body heads toward destruction, eventually reaching its end—all because protein never entered the body.
In my opinion, a solution must be found, and in every possible way protein—or in this analogy, money—must be preserved.
For this reason, from the very first day, every bit of “protein,” every bit of money that entered Congress 60, we did not allow it to be spent on paying salaries to employees or staff, nor on financial assistance to individuals. Even today, when we have more than 5,000 part-time volunteers, not a single cent is paid to anyone as compensation.
Another issue that has contributed to the success of Congress 60 is that the “product” must have real value in order to be viable. In other words, the product that Congress 60 offered—addiction treatment—and the claim of definitive addiction recovery, was something we were able to prove over time. This product has many clients, meaning people flock to Congress 60 for treatment.
What also helped the growth of Congress 60 was offering treatment services completely free of charge. Everyone entering for addiction treatment receives all services free.
Another key principle is that only those who have completed their treatment, if they wish, may donate voluntarily. “First travelers”—those still in treatment—are strictly forbidden from contributing financially.
Now imagine, under these conditions, there are many individuals with strong financial means who also suffer from addiction—such as the famous footballer Maradona or several Oscar-winning actors—who were willing to pay millions of dollars to be cured. But in the end, they resorted to suicide because no solution existed for them.
Many people think that if an addiction rehabilitation center is extremely luxurious—with swimming pools, attractive massage therapists, fine food, and great entertainment—it will be capable of curing addiction. But today I know that none of these methods can provide complete and definitive treatment. Because for a human being, either the internal opioid system of the body must function properly, or the person must receive narcotics from outside the body.
Now, if we are able to provide definitive addiction treatment, naturally we will have a great number of “customers.” And it is enough that a small percentage of them are financially well-off or even middle-class; all of them, after recovery, will help keep the system dynamic and standing.
Because they feel indebted—deeply indebted—to the system that treated them for free, and they want to give back with all their heart.
I don’t intend to criticize any other individuals or systems, but I must note something: many people who, after 20 years or more of sobriety, eventually came to Congress 60 for treatment—after completing the DST treatment—told me that they had maybe 100 or 200 students and served as guides.
But throughout all those years of sobriety they lived in suffering, convinced there was no definitive cure, and that they would remain addicts for the rest of their lives and die as addicts.
In other words, a mindset had been created—one that taught them they were different from other humans, and that they must spend their entire lives being cautious, living only within certain boundaries.
Fortunately now, with your various interviews and articles about Congress 60, as well as our own articles on addiction and other diseases, we are rapidly attracting attention from scientific centers around the world, and we are being invited to speak at various conferences.
I eagerly await the publication of your paper—and papers—on Congress 60 and the DST method, and I always pray for your health, so that together we can help free humanity from the major scientific and medical misunderstanding that has existed about addiction treatment.
Your eternal friend and brother on earth and in the heavens,
Hossein