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In 1977, Keith Richards was arrested for
heroin in Toronto, Canada, and was
prohibited from leaving the country.
However, Stone's attorney, Bill Carter,
was able to get Keith Richards
permission to go to the US in order to
help Keith get off of heroin. Here's the
story. The following is from Keith
Richards's book, Life. Quote, "There was
only one woman who could cure me, and
she was called Meg Patterson, and she
did a blackbox cure with electric
vibrations. She was in Hong Kong and
needed a sponsor doctor in the United
States. These were the lengths Bill
Carter went to, and it worked.
Miraculously, his White House contacts
instructed immigration to grant me a
visa, and he got permission from the
Canadian court for me to fly to the US.
We were allowed to rent a house in
Philadelphia, where Meg Patterson would
treat me every day for 3 weeks. From
there, after her prescribed cure, we
moved to Cherry Hill, New Jersey. I was
not allowed to move outside a 25mi
radius from Philadelphia which included
Cherry Hill. A deal worked out between
the doctors and lawyers and the
immigration department. Although I was
getting clean under Meg Patterson's
care, a cure imposed by the authorities
lack conviction in my heart. Meg's
method was supposed to be the painless
way out. Electrodes attached to your ear
released endorphins which theoretically
canceled the pain. Meg also believed in
alcohol. in my case, Jack Daniels, which
is a strong brew as a substitute, a
diversion, let's say. So, I drank
heartily under me's maternal guidance. I
was quite interested in Patterson's
method. It did certainly help, but it
was still no fun. After it was finished,
in a matter of 2 weeks or so,
immigration announced that they'd have
to monitor me for another month. I'm
clean, all right, and I'm getting antsy
and restless, stuck in this nice suburb.
I felt like I was in jail, and I just
got sick of it. Meg Patterson made her
report to the State Department and
immigration that I was following the
medical treatment and to cut a long
story short, I got reinstated. As far as
immigration was concerned, the slate was
wiped clean. No offenses appeared on my
record. Times were different then. There
was more of a belief in rehabilitation
than there is now. The visa, which was
originally a medical visa, overrode
everything. It was extended from 3 to 6
months from single to multiple entries.
There were waiverss for touring and
working on the grounds that I was
confirmed to be clean and curing myself.
As you clean up, you go up another level
and another level until you get the full
clean status according to my
understanding of it. And I've always
been very grateful to the US government
for allowing me to come to America to
get the help to come off the
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