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"After all these years. It is finally public."
Pegasus, an internet poster on learning of our work.
"They [the Straights] run very close to really performing psychic
murder."
Marge Robertson, executive director of the Cincinnati Chapter of the
ACLU, from Cincinnati Post.
"Everything I see smacks of child abuse."
West Palm Beach, Florida Circuit Judge Michael Gersten commenting on
Growing Together, a Straight-descendent program in Lake Worth,
Florida [The Palm Beach Post, 3-9-90, p. 8a]
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INTRODUCTION. From 1976 to 1993 Straight, Inc. ran the largest chain
of juvenile drug rehabilitation programs in the world with treatment
facilities in major US metropolitan areas. Straight marketed to the
parents of middle class and above white American teenagers.
Straight's methods combine an implementation of Synanon
Church's "the Game" or "synanon" which uses brutal, vulgar verbal
confrontations; brainwashing; a bastardized implementation of AA (7
Steps later modified to align with AA's traditional 12 Steps) and
Rational Emotive Therapy (RET). Straight claimed it was a Tough Love
program, but it is not. In 1995 Phyllis York, founder of Tough
Love, denounced Straight's brutal methods in an article in Insight on
the News. [Insight on the News, Feb 6, 1995 v11 n6 p15(3)]. Many
continue to think of Straight as a Marine Corps-style, character
builder program for teens. Indeed, a favorite approach of cult
apologist has always been to look at the Marines. Marine recruits
are insulted and deprived. DI's break boots down and then build then
back up in the Marine-image--don't they. But what is done at
Straight, Inc. has little in common with what happens at Paris
Island, South Carolina. We'll talk about that momentarily.
http://www.thestraights.com/
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