Since we have so many Seed Testimonials of late, thought I'd post some testimonials from some other programs and groups for comparison:
Mel Sembler defends Straight:
"Responding to years of complaints from former patients, auditors cited evidence of excessive use of force, sleep deprivation, and the withholding of food and medication. Sembler denies any wrongdoing and continues to defend the program's methods, particularly against the criticisms of the St. Petersburg Times editorial board. "People thought we were taking away children's rights. But we saw it just the opposite - giving them back their rights by helping them get off drugs." In 1993, with the allegations surfacing and the program losing about $500,000 a year, Sembler closed Straight. Indeed, he speaks proudly of an ACLU lawsuit filed against Straight's Atlanta affiliate some years ago. "It just shows that we must have been doing things right," he says with a grin. Betty Sembler, herself a veteran activist in many anti-drug causes, labels the center's detractors as misguided. Anyone who fully understands the dangers of drugs, she says, will agree that drastic measures are sometimes needed."
Defenders / members of Narconon (the anti-drug program run by and based upon Scientology):
"Narconon is a very useful program that I have personally seen salvage lives from the gutter".
"Narconon is the only program that, in over 76% of the cases, produces a permanent, verifiable solution to the problem of drug addiction"
"It was the knowledge I gained in Scientology that helped me to quickly stop and realize that going back to marijuana wasn't at all a good idea."
One prison official estimated that heroin use has dropped 80 percent from its former use level since the Narconon program was introduced. And justice officials outside the prison in Ensenada reported that the crime rate in the whole city has significantly dropped. Thus, Narconon has returned to the social environment in which it was founded three decades ago to continue to rescue prisoners from drug-induced oblivion.'