Collings himself was also subject to acts of humiliation, according to a Tangram staff member. To punish Craig for trying to run away, his shoes were taken away from him for several days. In another incident, Collings had a rope tied around his hand which was attached to a Tangram employee. "They led him around like a dog," said the staff member. "To me, that was abusive."
For years, Collings was also told that Tangram was waiting for the Ontario government to bring him home. "I believe I could have gotten everything I wanted back in Ontario."
But that wasn't the way the industry was set up to run. One of the architects of the brain injury industry was "behavioral expert" Ahmos Rolider, formerly of the University of Kansas.
In 1989, Chedoke-McMaster Hospitals in Hamilton, Ontario, responsible for coordinating all Ontario brain injury services, hired Rolider to run its Centre for Behavioral Rehabilitation (CBR), a small, six-bed unit created to serve the severely brain injured population. Despite the fact that Rolider had little experience dealing with brain injuries, Rolider was promoted as a "miracle worker" with the brain-injured population.
Behind closed doors, Rolider was torturing patients, screaming at them and using techniques reminiscent of those used in the military for interrogation. This was done under the guise of "aversion therapy," with the full cooperation of the hospital, even though there was no proof of medical safety or effectiveness. One of Rolider's victims was Thompson, who was referred by him to Tangram in 1992.
Even more startling was that one of Rolider's key subordinates, outreach therapist Wayne Turner, traveled to Texas to export aversion therapy. Documents show that soon after Turner was assigned to monitor Ontario patients in the United States, he joined the payroll of Tangram and eventually became director of Tangram Ontario.
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