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Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform => Straight, Inc. and Derivatives => Topic started by: Anonymous on October 25, 2005, 08:15:00 PM
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Times Publishing Company
St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
August 30, 1989, Wednesday, City Edition
SECTION: TAMPA BAY AND STATE; Pg. 3B
DISTRIBUTION: TAMPA BAY AND STATE
LENGTH: 394 words
HEADLINE: Drug center holds onto client-restraint policy
BYLINE: NORMA WAGNER
DATELINE: PINELLAS PARK
BODY:
PINELLAS PARK - Straight Inc. administrators will continue allowing
patients to restrain each other despite warnings from state officials that
the practice may be dangerous.
Though a revision of the center's policy says only adult staff members
will restrain uncontrollable clients in the future, Straight's vice president
of operations said Tuesday that clients will continue to restrain clients in
instances of self-defense.
The proposed revisions are in response to a Health and Rehabilitative
Services (HRS) letter mailed Aug. 25 ordering Straight officials to revise
their restraint policy before the center's operating license expires Sept. 6.
Straight officials mailed the proposed revisions Tuesday.
If the revision is not acceptable, it is possible HRS will revoke the
drug and alcohol treatment center's license, said HRS spokeswoman Elaine
Fulton-Jones. "But Straight officials have been negotiating and cooperating
with us, so we really don't expect that to be the case," she said.
The order, written by HRS program supervisor Martha Lenderman, h h said,
"The (revised) policy must specifically prohibit any physical restriction of
movement of clients by other clients. It is the responsibility of staff, not
clients, to protect clients from harm by other clients."
Straight's vice president Page Peary said HRS officials have agreed that
in instances of self-defense, clients will be allowed to restrain clients
until an adult staff member can take over. He said this always has been
Straight's practice, and that the HRS order is more in response to a change
in Florida law.
While Ms. Fulton-Jones acknowledged that the law now requires specific
language in such policies, she also said Peary may be misinterpreting the
order.
Children restraining children "is our concern and has been our concern
and continues to be our concern," she said.
"We've never prescribed (client-to-client) restraint," Perry said. "It
has never been part of the treatment of Straight. However, if a young person
slugs another young person, we have to stop that. But that's not restraint,
that's self-defense."
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Times Publishing Company
St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
September 6, 1989, Wednesday, City Edition
SECTION: TAMPA BAY AND STATE; Pg. 3B
DISTRIBUTION: TAMPA BAY AND STATE
LENGTH: 413 words
HEADLINE: Straight Inc. to get license // One-year renewal follows new policy on
restraining
BYLINE: NORMA WAGNER
DATELINE: PINELLAS PARK
BODY:
PINELLAS PARK - State officials today plan to renew a one-year license to
Straight Inc. now that the drug and alcohol treatment center has agreed to
prohibit clients from restraining each other.
"The policy changes they made are very explicit in that they say no one
but adult staff in the program will be permitted to restrain clients, which
is what we were after," Ivor Groves, an assistant secretary for the state
Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services (HRS), said Tuesday.
Straight officials rewrote the center's client restraint policy after
HRS ordered them to do so in a letter mailed Aug. 25.
The letter said Florida law prohibits clients from restraining one
another, and that the responsibility must lie solely with trained staff.
HRS officials in June denied the center a full license renewal because
of concerns about restraining methods, client privacy and records
maintenance.
They discovered identical problems at Straight's only other Florida
treatment center in Orlando, and both facilities were issued temporary,
90-day operating licenses.
Identical policy revisions were submitted by both centers, officials
said.
The Orlando center received its full-term operating license Aug. 31, the
day its temporary license expired.
HRS officials plan to renew Straight's Pinellas Park license today when
it expires, said HRS spokeswoman Elaine Fulton-Jones.
HRS officials usually inspect facilities annually. But the Straight
centers will be inspected every three months to make sure the new policies
are being followed, she said.
Straight's vice president of operations, Page Peary, couldn't be reached
Tuesday, but said in an interview last week that in cases of self-defense,
patients will be allowed to restrain one another.
Said Groves of H "This is one of those bottom-line issues that isn't
negotiable. In any program there may be instances where a client could get
physically involved with another client. However, I would expect to see that
infrequently. I wouldn't expect to have reports or complaints coming out
about those types of activities.
"If that happens," he said, HRS again will "have to question the
adequacy of Straight's program."
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