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From the Center for Investigative Reporting in PRX, this is reveal.

I'm Al Edson.

This is chapter five of American Rehab, Reagan with the Snap.

When we left off in the summer of 1978,

Senacor founder Luke Austin had been ousted after he siphoned off most of the organization's money

to support a life of luxury for himself.

Senacor still had two facilities.

Its original headquarters in Colorado, and its newer operation in Houston, Texas.

But the organization was broke.

And the 75 or so people living in Houston were struggling.

Some have been there for years.

Some were new, just starting to find a way out of addiction.

And now, all of them were resorting to a diet of cornmeal mush and green jello just to survive.

But as Laura Starchesky, of our American Rehab team tells us,

things are about to get a lot more corporate at Senacor,

with a little help from friends in high places.

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