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creashev:
There is a WIKIPEDIA affiliated with Operation Re-entry, Miami Beach.  If any "graduates" of OR would like to contribute, just create an account with Wikipedia.  Here is the link:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_ ... iami_beach

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Maryanne:
Not sure where my post went, But I will try again.I was in Operation Reentry from 1976-1977
I Would really like to talk to anyone who was involved with the program. What a great way to reconnect.

I am also trying to find any counselors that might have been involved with the program.

Please contact me.

Sincerely,
Maryanne (Heggenstaller) beans

ORStaffMember:
I was a member in Operation Re-Entry from '72-'74.  Later worked there as a Staff Trainee, went to school and returned to work as a staff member from about '77 until they closed.  I can answer a lot of questions and clear up some misinformation.  Overall I want to reach out to any previous members, whether your experience was good or bad, and help you resolve any confusion or perhaps pain that might still exist.

In the 1970's the Synanon based model was pretty much all there was for drug treatment programs.  Synanon had success with alcoholics and drug addicts, and their well meaning graduates wanted to spread the word and help others.   Pretty much like Alcoholics Annon. does today.  And for the hard core drug abuser, these tactics probably worked very well.  However the problem came when the clients entering the drug programs became younger and younger.  The young confused insecure teenager who is experimenting with drug use, is not in the same category, and to use the same tactics was to me a little heavy handed.  But like I said earlier, in those days, that was all there was and all we knew.   For every client I think Re-Entry helped with their approach, three others were not.

Fortunately there developed by the late 70's other therapy's and methods of treatment that were less "humiliating" or "abusive".   By the later half of the '70's several staff members had joined Re-Entry who were trained in other disciplines and tried to influence the way the program was run.  It was not until the Synanon trained directors left the program that the program evolved. That is the time I believe Re-Entry had it's greatest positive influence in the lives of its teenager members.  I am proud to have worked there during that time.

To those who feel they have been hurt by their experience in the program I would like to say, from every staff member who ever worked at Operation Re-Entry...please forgive us.  Like early doctors who used primitive tools,  we also were well intentioned, but lacked the proper "tools" and education.  

If I can answer any questions that would help you come to terms with what you went through, I am happy to help.  Let me hear your story.

Jorge Carabelli

creashev:
Thank you for such a compassionate and warm note ... let's see who comes out of their shells now!  I think about 12 alumna now have made contact these new outreach efforts??  out of 1000?

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