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...helm of the project is Bill McCue, a man who has been involved in the drug world as a user, a major dealer, and now, as a reformer. After getting out of prison in 1971, McCue opened the first residential drug treatment program in Massachusetts...
...McCue's Third Nail is a paragon in an industry marked by low success rates and corruption. Elsewhere, hypocrisy is often the order--rehabilitators are, even while counseling, users themselves...
...McCue, however, picks his eight staff members "with a fine-toothed comb, so the ship will remain clean." "They are unbelievably dedicated to helping us," says one resident. Resisting a new trend towards professionalism--doctors and social scientists are often more respected than those who have had practical experience in the field--he continues to hire ex-addicts. This way, because former users are slowly assimilated back into socially productive roles, drug rehabilitation establishes itself as a valuable service, refuting the common attitude that it is "just a waste of the taxpayers' money." Unlike Third Nail, which is open...
...often several days, spent in the school boiler room, where residents "go voluntarily to think their problems through." "Certainly the discipline is here, but it is just one part of teaching these people how to confront their problems. We do not advocate a soft approach to drug therapy," says McCue...
...played by Nick Wyse looking for all the world like DeNiro in New York, New York) and Laureen, a neighboring bass player (Grace Shohet), arrive, an inner circle rears its head, signalling the end of the commonplace relationship which have gone thus far. And even then Niles himself (Brian McCue) arrives with his compatriot Paulette (Bonnie Zimering) and the play becomes a meditation on the mind...