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Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform => Straight, Inc. and Derivatives => Topic started by: Kathy on March 12, 2002, 07:02:00 AM

Title: Closing Straight Inc
Post by: Kathy on March 12, 2002, 07:02:00 AM

This question is directed at those who were in the program when it closed down.... I know there has to be someone out there who was in group when it got shut down.  What happened?  How'd it happen? Were you all just set free? I'd like a story from each location.  I'm especially interested in the Virginia program closing, but I am also very interested in any and all of the program closings....  Waiting anxiously, thanks, Kathy

Title: Closing Straight Inc
Post by: ladyjerrico on March 12, 2002, 04:29:00 PM

Kathy, after a long tedious 3 hours on the computer, I found a site which will link you to every Straight Inc. that closed.
go to http://www.thestraights.com (http://www.thestraights.com)
It will have a few link, one of them is "where is it now?" and will list every Straight which was closed and what happened to it's facilitys
Hopefully this helps :smile:

Title: Closing Straight Inc
Post by: groovy1634 on July 04, 2002, 01:04:00 PM

i walked a month before they closed, but i knew the end was near
lisa
dallas straight, 91

Title: Closing Straight Inc
Post by: 85 Day Jerk on July 04, 2002, 05:32:00 PM

re: Program Closes

I seven stepped from the Morgan Yaght Building and we all went over to see the new straight on Gandy once the program had moved over there.  Most of us were not impressed.  The staff and Miller Newton made it clear that this was "his" Straight Inc now.  Helen Peterman and Dr. George Ross had a falling out with Newton and the way he was running things.  They started a program in Nakomis Florida south of Sarasota called LIFE and I believe a few kids were pulled from straight to resume treatment there.  I visited the program with a few Sarasota friends in '81 and it was small, clean, and they had plenty of fans to keep the place cool.  They also had a pretty good kitchen.  They also had a branch that opened up in Tallahassee that did not last very long.  A few people I knew went on staff there.  One guy got a staffer girl pregnant and then ran back home to his mama in St. Pete, the other guy got his staffer girlfriend pregnant and ended up marrying her.  All ended up messed up on drugs pretty bad when it was over, only now they had become "Predator Druggies," by using what they had learned in the program to their advantage.  As for what happened to LIFE after that, I guess someone from Sarasota/Naples would know cuz by that time I was working 12 hour shifts printing telephone books.

Title: Closing Straight Inc
Post by: kpickle39 on July 04, 2002, 10:20:00 PM

LIFE in Tallahassee became Turnabout.  It is still in operation.