https://nypost.com/article/provo-canyon-school-abuse/
Inside the ‘abusive’ troubled-teen industry that Paris Hilton exposed
“It was horrific,” Jen Robison, 31, who attended Provo Canyon School from 2003 to 2005, said. “They isolated us, they put us in restraints, they forcibly drugged us with [antipsychotic] drugs like haloperidol.”
The #breakingcodesilence movement — according to its Web Site, “Code Silence” is when students are ordered to ignore and not speak to classmates who are being punished — is fighting a system that has roots in a notorious 1960s-era California cult. Synanon was one of the first rehab centers in the world and pioneered the concept of “tough love” to help addicts. Though Synanon imploded, the idea of what is now called “attack therapy” is still practiced in places sometimes called “emotional growth boarding schools.”
We were constantly pumped up with all sorts of meds,” Cristy Kirwin, who was sent to Provo Canyon at 13, told The Post. “I was put on [anti-depressants] Prozac, desipramine and lithium. We were all like zombies. Staffers watched you even when you went to the bathroom. When I was put in isolation I was stripped down to my underwear, in front of male guards.”…………..