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Surviving Straight Inc
by Christine Flannery
This podcast is an extension of my website Surviving Straight Inc. Episodes will explore, in depth, the abusive adolescent drug rehabilitation program called Straight Incorporated that was opened from 1976 to 1993. Despite its well-known, publicized abuses in newspapers and lawsuits, Straight was still supported by many influential people including Nancy Reagan and George H. W. Bush. Straight Inc. Survivors and survivors of Straight's numerous spin-off programs will get to share their stories here.For more information about Straight, please visit www.survivingstraightinc.com
Episodes
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Episode 12 - Part 3 - Lifeline - Salt Lake City, Utah, survivor name & dates withheld
In part 3, we talk about medical neglect and severe restrictions on bathroom access that led to accidents. The survivor also discusses some of the extreme things kids did out of desperation. She goes on to explain how her experience in Lifeline was harmful and created many long term problems...
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Episode 12 - Part 2 - Lifeline - Salt Lake City, Utah, survivor name & dates withheld
In part 2, the Lifeline survivor talks about losing hope after her 21 day evaluation and about her escape attempt. She also describes open meeting, the infamous Open Meeting Review and how Lifeline prevented her from having private conversations with her parents. The survivor also disclosed…
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Episode 12 - Part 1 - Lifeline - Salt Lake City, Utah, survivor name & dates withheld
In this episode, I talk to a former client of Lifeline. She describes growing up in an abusive family and her issues with depression, anxiety and self harm. She was shy and a Straight A student who did not get into trouble. She was taken by transporters from Uni to Lifeline where she was for…
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Episode 11 - Part 4 - Straight Inc. Cincinnati, OH & St Petersburg FL - Don Smith 1981-1982
In this episode, we periodically mention Don’s written manuscript about Straight while talking about his experience. In Part 4, Don talks about how adults were held against their will in Straight. He also explains how Straight's most common tactic to keep them was emotional and psychological...
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Episode 11 - Part 3 - Straight Inc. Cincinnati, OH & St Petersburg FL - Don Smith 1981-1982
In this episode, we periodically mention Don’s written manuscript about Straight while talking about his experience. In Part 3, Don talks about being a Staff Trainee. We discuss the 6 levels of training, the significance of Homes Rap and how assessing teenagers progress was done by untrained...
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Episode 11 - Part 2 - Straight Inc. Cincinnati, OH & St Petersburg FL - Don Smith 1981-1982
In this episode, we periodically mention Don’s written manuscript about Straight while talking about his experience. In Part 2, Don talks about after Straight, aftercare, being a 7 Step Society Officer and the ways he was adversely effected long term by Straight even though he was still sober....
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Episode 11 - Part 1 - Straight Inc. Cincinnati, OH & St Petersburg FL - Don Smith 1981-1982
In this episode, we periodically mention Don’s written manuscript about Straight while talking about his experience. In Part 1, Don talks about his heavy drug and alcohol use before Straight. Then Don talks about how even though he was 20 years old, his parents tricked him into going to Florida…
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Episode 10 - Part 3 - Lifeline - Salt Lake City, Utah, survivor name withheld, 2005 - 2007
In part 3, the Lifeline survivor talks about dating on 5th phase and getting set back for it. Having to pass a lie detector test to graduate Lifeline, how he felt honesty was used against him in Lifeine, some of the long term effects from his traumatic experiences in Lifeline, reconnecting with…
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Episode 10 - Part 2 - Lifeline - Salt Lake City, Utah, survivor name withheld, 2005 - 2007
In part 2 the Lifeline survivor talks about being set back, acting out, the quiet room, host homes, Lifeline's so-called education, going back to a real school, SRG and Monarch. LIFELINE, A STRAIGHT/KIDS SPIN OFF IS STILL OPEN RIGHT NOW Lifeline is currently going by the name Lifeline For Youth…
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Episode 10 - Part 1 - Lifeline - Salt Lake City, Utah, survivor name withheld, 2005 - 2007
In part 1, this Lifeline survivor talks about when he first went into Lifeline, specifics about the program itself such as, when your shoes are taken away, the phases, MI's, Open Meeting, Lifeline's "sign language," what it was like to talk in group, different types of groups, feedback and...
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Episode 9 - Straight’s Philosophy and Treatment Model
On the surface, Straight’s philosophy and treatment model seems benign, potentially helpful even. But as this episode and others will show, even things that seem helpful can be destructive if implemented in the wrong way, if those ideas are taken to unreasonable extremes. So, I will explain some…
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Episode 8 - Part 3 - Lifeline - Salt Lake City, Utah, survivor name & dates withheld
In part 3, the survivor talks about how she feels medical issues were sometimes ignored in Lifeline, how she feels she was over-medicated by the program, the honesty marathon, and she describes the several times she was set back as well. One time she even tried to leave Lifeline after she turned...
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Episode 8 - Part 2 - Lifeline - Salt Lake City, Utah, survivor name & dates withheld
In part 2 the survivor talks about the quiet room, desperate things some kids did like drinking bleach, the difference between the host homes and The Flick and much more. She also explains how in Lifeline she was forced to take responsibility for the physical and sexual abuse she endured before...
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Episode 8 - Part 1 - Lifeline - Salt Lake City, Utah, survivor name & dates withheld
In this episode I talk to a former client of Lifeline. She describes growing up in an abusive Mormon Family and being a victim of sexual assault. She was a good student who had been involved in many extracurricular activities. She also describes a few things that got her in trouble with her...
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Episode 7 - Part 3, KIDS of Bergen County, Survivor Despina Stamos, 9/85 - 12/86
In part 3 Despina talks about her slow process of waking up over a period of years. Her awakening was triggered by remembering and renewing her interest in world events and social justice. Despina also mentions cult expert Hassan, Lifton's thought reform criteria, and how KIDS was Orwellian....
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Episode 7 - Part 2, KIDS of Bergen County, Survivor Despina Stamos, 9/85 - 12/86
In part 2, Despina talks what the host homes were like, why it was so hard to escape from KIDS, and her suicide attempt that ended up being her escspe from KIDS. Despina also describes how her ordeal in KIDS effected her even after she got out. Despina went by Debbie when she was in KIDS.…
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Episode 7 - Part 1, KIDS of Bergen County, Survivor Despina Stamos, 9/85 - 12/86
In part 1, Despina talks about life before KIDS as a punk rocker, and describes the conflicts with her Greek parents, her eating disorder, being falsely imprisoned in KIDS as an 18 year old adult and what it was like in KIDS. Despina went by Debbie when she was in KIDS. Despina's written story is...
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Episode 6 - Part 4, Straight Inc - St. Petersburg, FL & Springfield. VA - Rich Moroski 1982 - 1983
In the last part of the interview, Rich talks how Straight affected him after getting out, going back to drug use, then about going to NA and being clean for 18 years, waking up around the year 2000 and how he found Straight information online. Rich explains how reconnecting with other Straight...
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Episode 6 - Part 3, Straight Inc - St. Petersburg, FL & Springfield. VA - Rich Moroski 1982 - 1983
In part 3 Rich talks more about the transfer from St Petersburg, FL to the DC area, as part of the first group that opened the Springfield, VA program, more about 'The Alter,' and how Rich abused other kids in Straight, at the direction of peer staff, and how mentally ill kids were singled out…
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Episode 6 - Part 2, Straight Inc - St. Petersburg, FL & Springfield. VA - Rich Moroski 1982 - 1983
More about what it was like for Rich on first phase, the 'No Talking Behind Backs' rule, confrontation, restraints, and the Straight 'shine' from being a compliant, 'happy,' gung-ho Straightling. Then Rich talks about set backs, food punishments and how 1st phase messed with his head. Rich…
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Episode 6 - Part 1, Straight Inc - St. Petersburg, FL & Springfield. VA - Rich Moroski 1982 - 1983
In this episode Rich talks about family life and drug and alcohol use before Straight. Then Rich talks about his intake, day 1 and how he, as an 18 year old adult, was falsely imprisoned by Straight. For more information about Straight, please visit www.survivingstraightinc.com
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Episode 5 - Part 2, KIDS of North Jersey Survivor Katie Hedges, 9/92 to 11/95
Katie tells her story about having an eating disorder and the abuse she endured in KIDS of North Jersey, a Straight Incorporated spin off started by Miller Newton, who was Straight's former National Clinical Diirector. For more information about KIDS see KIDS of North Jersey.com (fornits.com)...
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Episode 5 - Part 1, KIDS of North Jersey Survivor Katie Hedges, 9/92 to 11/95
Katie tells her story about having an eating disorder and the abuse she endured in KIDS of North Jersey, a Straight Incorporated spin off started by Miller Newton, who was Straight's former National Clinical Diirector. For more information about KIDS see KIDS of North Jersey.com (fornits.com)...
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Episode 4, Part 2 - Sarasota & St. Petersburg Florida branches - Straight Survivor Tammy Koross 1982 - 1984
Tammy continues to tell her story about the Sarasota and St Petersburg Straight programs. She also talks about how she was hidden in a Time Out Room when Nancy Reagan visited St Petersburg Straight in 1982. Then Tammy explains how her life was effected by Straight, long after escaping. For more...
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Episode 4, Part 1 - Sarasota & St. Petersburg Florida branches - Straight Survivor Tammy Koross 1982 - 1984
Tammy tells her story about the child abuse she endured in the Sarasota and St Petersburg FL Straight programs. She also mentions the criminal investigation of Sarasota. Two national TV news programs, mentioned in this episde, covered Straight. 20/20 in 1983 https://youtu.be/EccdPYsyrjQ AND 60...
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Episode 3 - Part 2 - Stoughton, MA Straight Survivor Jessica Ferraro 1989-1990
Jessica talks more about what Straight was like for her and how it affected her life afterward. For more information about Straight, please visit www.survivingstraightinc.com If you have any questions about the information presented in the podcast, Jessica can be reached at...
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Episode 3 - Part 1 - Stoughton, MA Straight Survivor Jessica Ferraro 1989-1990
Jessica tells her story of why she was put in Straight and what happened to her in the first few days in the program and on 1st phase. For more information about Straight, please visit www.survivingstraightinc.com If you have any questions about the information presented in the podcast, Jessica…
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Episode 2- A Brief History of Straight Incorporated and the Straight Spin Off Programs
The first episode traces the origins and history of Straight Incorporated. I will also explain how many of the Straight spin-off programs got started and how each was connected to Straight. I will also review some suspected programs requiring more research. Finally, I will clarify a few...
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Episode 1 - Introduction
Introduction to The Surviving Straight Incorporated Podcast. For more information on Straight Incorporated, please visit www.survivingstraightinc.com If you have any questions about the information presented in the podcast, please email my website at [email protected]
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
This podcast is an extension of my website Surviving Straight Inc. Episodes will explore, in depth, the abusive adolescent drug rehabilitation program called Straight Incorporated that was opened from 1976 to 1993. Despite its well-known, publicized abuses in newspapers and lawsuits, Straight was still supported by many influential people including Nancy Reagan and George H. W. Bush. Straight Inc. Survivors and survivors of Straight's numerous spin-off programs will get to share their stories here.For more information about Straight, please visit www.survivingstraightinc.com
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Christine Flannery
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