I like you FishBone. When I was in my "I can't believe this happened to me I am collecting as much information as I can on the subject to fuck the perpetrator" phase I actually had a copy of a letter that showed that the Director of Psychiatry at Straight Springfield was a DoD employee. I will continue to search for it and, when/if I find it, I will forward it to you. The problem with your theory about money though, is that Straight, financially, was not particularly successful. Politically successful, yes. The other problem is that files on my computer seem to dissapear (hey guys i love that they pay you to read this shit). I have since begun to back files up. My bad. If anyone else has the file I am talking about could you please post it.
Str8survivor, I like the way you think also.
I'll give you the "I can't believe this happened to me I am collecting as much information as I can on the subject to fuck the perpetrator" phase, as I may be on that phase now in a way (god damn, I finally made it to the next phase, 17 years later!) and I may actually have a little anecdotal evidence for you, though a little story is needed...
I was checked into str8 in feb '89, my parents were living apart as my father had started a couple new jobs away and was trying to sell the house in seminole (near St Pete) He had worked for the V.A. (Fed Gov) for over 20 years as a psychiatrist, most stops on the tour he was the chief of psychiatry, and won some type of award from Bush Sr for his dealing with post traumatic stress sybdrome (I think) and his mostly successful non-medicated aproach. He had left the V.A. and gone back to work for the state of VA(Virginia), where he had first worked here, for awhile, and then back to the V.A,(vetrans Administration) in Lake City, FL in a new position. About this time I decided to turn into a complete 14 yr old heavy metal punk, skipping school, growing my hair, etc... He blamed my mother for being undisciplined, felt guilty for being away, YadaYadaYada. So I ended up at str8 for an hour of family counseling, all on the recomendation of one of his colleagues, the "14 day trial" and the "strip search" followed, and of course I was in, we had federal blue cross/blue shield, I wasn't going anywhere. The first OMR he attended, maybe 3 weeks in or so, he was screaming "BULLSHIT" & "CULT". I actually heard him through the collapsable walls, but he had already been labled an alchoholic by my mother (which he may or may not have been, depending on your definition of the word, but at this point the definition was he drank somewhat reguarly, and he thought straight was fucked.) and was thown out of group, and denied my removal because he and my mother both signed me in, so they both had to sign me out. of course I was told he had given up on me, iwas worthless, so on & so forth. In this time he used the influence he had in the medical and more specifficaly the drug treatment community to try to battle this. He managed to get them removed from the hospitals association?, the AHA, or AMHA, I think, I don't remeber which it was anymore, and within a short time he was fired from his job at the V.A. in Lake City, when he went back to work for the State of VA in Danville. I have never really decided for myself what to believe about this situation, it has always seemed kinda fishy, no reason was given for the termination. He was a "temp" employee since he had left the VA before on his own will before, and they had been asking him to come back, and then, See Ya. You would have to think the VA (veterans administation) comes under some DOD influence?
As for straight not making any money, now that is a fucked up paper trail. Being registered as an outpatient facility, with little overhead, charging inpatient rates, somebody in that little building in the parking lot of the warehouse on Gandy in St Pete was RACKING IT IN! Maybe not Str8 as a company, but that was alot of cash.
Dave
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