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Survivors of Straight, Inc.: An Interview with Marcus Chatfield

21 pages. Includes bibliographic references. Iatrogenic illness (treatment-caused harm or injury) has a long history within the annals of addiction treatment in the United States: prolonged institutionalization, lethal detoxification protocol, mandatory sterilization, indiscriminate electro- and chemo-convulsive therapies, prefrontal lobotomies, and drug insults of unending varieties, including treating morphine addiction with prescribed cocaine. One of the lasting lessons of this history is that it is very hard to see such injury and abuse within one's own era. Straight, Inc. branched out from The Seed in 1976, and The Seed was one of many programs that were based on Synanon in the early 1970s. Chatfield discusses the history and practices of Straight, Inc. and the work of Survivors of Straight, Inc.

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