In 1984 Dr. Richard H. Schwartz, a Fairfax, Virginia pediatrician agreed to be interviewed for The Fairfax Journal for an article that was subsequently published on July 31, 1984. Dr. Schwartz had a son named Keith in Straight-DC. The article showed a full page photo of Keith, Dr. Schwartz, his wife Rose Lynn, and Keith’s sister Keira. Keith is a tall, clean-cut guy and yet there’s a solo picture of Keith Schwartz saying "You can’t con a con", which is a part of the Program lexicon that goes all the way back to Reverend Chuck Dederich's Synanon. In the article Keith admits he is "chemically" dependent, that he stole from his family to support his drug habit–"money, a Hanukkah gift, a movie camera, liquor." He admitted that he had once held a knife to his sister’s Keira’s throat (but "I was just fooling around."). And then in 1988 writing in the Journal of Pediatrics Dr. Schwartz told the world that Keith had relapsed after 17 months in treatment at Straight and had been arrested for shoplifting and given a two year sentence on probation.
And there you have it ladies and gentlemen. Once again Straight has exposed a fine young man–and forever. Straight is gone now–at least under the name Straight, but while it lived it coaxed this doctor into allowing his son to be quoted in print, admitting to the world forever that he was chemically dependent, that he stole from loves ones to support his habit, that he held a knife to his own sister’s throat, and that he had stolen and been sentenced to two years on parole.
