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Straight Articles and Information

Books Containing Chapters About Straight, Inc. & other Books About Straight Inc.

Help At Any Cost

The Great Drug War

Come Clean

Institutionalized Persuasion

Abandoned - (Amazon reviews)

Straightling, re-released as "The Dead Inside"

We Can't Be Friends

Florida Damage Report

Reviews of the Dead Inside

"The Dead Inside" Details One Woman's Struggle To Survive In A Cult-Like, Abusive Treatment Center For Teens (Bustle), November 15, 2016

"The Dead Inside" Notes From The Underground (Book Page), Book review, April 2017

The Dead Inside: Finding Hope in the Darkest of Times Germ Magazine, June 14, 2017

We Can't Be Friends (read the Dead Inside first)

Literary Lion Roaring Review of "We Can't Be Friends" - Oct 1, 2017

Kirkus Review of "We Can't Be Friends" - Aug 27, 2017

Dangerous "therapies" - no matter how miraculous the results of this approach seems to be, please dont allow your child to be subjected to attack/confrontational methods. If it sounds too good to be true, it is. Run the other way.

Attack Therapy

Brainwashing is Real and It's Really Not Therapy

Brainwashing is Real, Part 2: Office of the Surgeon General "Statement" on Brainwashing

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Podcasts & Radio Coverage About Straight Survivors

This Bush Crony Has Blood on His Hands Part 1 11/10/05 ***will fix soon

The Bush Crony Who Tortured American Teens, Part II 11/13/05 ***will fix soon

Straight Inc - Legacy of Abuse Continues - Hosted by Medical Whistleblower 12/22/10

What's Worse Than Teen-Age Drug Abuse? Drug Programs Abusing Teenagers 9/15/11

Abuse of Teenagers in Drug Programs, Part 2 9/16/11

Author of "Straightling"
Cyndy Etler and Straight, Inc. on NPR, Charlotte Talks, 8/20/12 - also located here

Straightling - A Memoir - Guest: Cyndy Drew Etler, author, on Commonwealth Journal, WUMB and the University of Massachusetts Boston 1/21/13 - also located here

Abandoned by Susie TenEyck on The Doug Dahlgren Show on Artist First Radio - 5/18/18

Less Troubled - by Bret Stenhouse
An ongoing series of survivor interviews and information. Bret was in a STRAIGHT center in Georgia back in the 80's. Bret works with other survivors to bring mass awareness and change to this abusive and greedy Industry. - added 9/21/20

Youtube

Straight Inc Was Not Normal - survivor stories by Dave Anderson added October 19, 2020

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