American Rehab Chapter 8: Shadow Workforce

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The Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX

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4.7 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

For decades, work-based rehabs have spread across the country. No one knows how many are out there, so we counted them ourselves.

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0:00.0	From the Center for Investigative Reporting in PRX, this is Reveal.
0:09.6	I'm Al Edson.
0:11.3	We started American rehab with a phone call between our reporter, Shoshana Walter, and a woman
0:16.8	named Penny Robbins.
0:18.3	I was like, I got to get a hold of this lady.
0:20.4	I got to tell her that she's on the right track.
0:23.0	This isn't right.
0:24.0	People need to know about this.
0:25.7	Penny was worried sick about her brother, Tim Ro.
0:29.6	She had sent him to a drug rehab called Seneca.
0:32.6	All they do is just work the dog shit out of you and you don't get paid.
0:37.5	They shaped my head when I was in there.
0:38.9	You just have to keep saying it over and over.
0:41.2	Tim Ro have a consistent behavior of talking to me.
0:46.0	That non-sport?
0:47.0	Do I have a seat in a verbal chair for non-sport?
0:50.7	The chanting, the strange punishments, it all goes back to one of the very first drug
0:55.6	rehabs in the nation.
0:57.8	Sinanon.
0:59.8	Who started Sinanon?
1:02.1	Sinanon Foundation was started in 1958 by ex alcoholic Charles E. D. D. D.
1:06.6	D. D. D. D. D. D. D. D.
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