American Rehab Chapter 7: The Work Cure

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🗓️ 1 August 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

One man’s journey into Cenikor leads to almost two years of backbreaking labor. The program will change him. But can it help Chris Koon with his addiction?

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0:00.0	Hey, this is reporter Laura Starchesky.
0:03.0	Reveal provides independent journalism,
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0:09.8	become a member and will send you a reveal face mask
0:12.8	with the word facts embroidered on it
0:15.1	as a special thank you gift.
0:18.4	From the Center for Investigative Reporting in PRX,
0:22.2	this is Reveal.
0:24.0	I'm Al Etzen and this is American Rehab,
0:26.6	Chapter 7, the Work Cure.
0:29.6	We left off last time with reporters Shoshana Walter
0:32.5	and Laura Starchesky, getting messages from people
0:35.6	inside the Center for Program.
0:38.0	People who are exhausted from the work
0:40.0	Center for Required of Them, people who are scared,
0:43.5	people who had fled, and we needed to find out
0:46.5	what is happening to these people inside the Center for.
0:49.8	To find out, Shoe spent more than a year
0:52.7	talking to hundreds of Center for Participants.
0:55.4	But we're going to start with just one story
0:57.6	of one person who needed help with his addiction.
1:02.8	On a cold, windy winter day in December 2018,
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