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Anonymous:
Phoenix House and Daytop are the two largest drug treatment providers for adolescents in the U.S.  Both started from the Synanon model, but as they became regulated, they had to drop its extremes.  

While they still often use "attack therapy," they can no longer keep kids up all night for it, nor deprive them of food.

Neither ever uses restraints!  

If kids run, the police are called to return them.  And they accept inner city kids, not just the middle class.  Of course, the kids are screened to rule out the severely mentally ill and those with a prior history of assault:  but most kids in WWASP have no prior history of violence and are not psychotic either (beforehand, anyway).

The programs that think they "need" to use restraints are rationalizing their desire for punishment; even most mental hospitals use it only rarely-- maybe once a month, certainly not daily the way Straight or WWASP seems to do.

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