I read an article in the New York Times Magazine that terrified me. It was a positive profile of a New Jersey program called KIDS, an unapologetically harsh youth rehab. Treatment at KIDS consisted primarily of sitting rigidly in one particular position on hard chairs for 12-hour days and being subjected to constant emotional attacks. I would later write a book that exposed just how torturous and harmful that particular program was. I learned, for instance, that one thirteen-year-old girl, who didn’t even have a real addiction, was held in it for thirteen years, eventually winning a $6.5
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