At age fourteen, Cyndy Etler had escaped from her violent home only to be reported as a runaway and sent to a drug rehabilitation facility that changed her world. Behind the closed doors of Straight, Inc., the program used bizarre and intimidating methods to treat its patients. In this memoir, Cyndy recounts the living nightmare that she endured for sixteen months at Straight, Inc.
The Dead Inside brought tears to my eyes more than once. I find it so hard to think that parents believe their spouses over their children. That they won't give their own children a safe place to stay. And that they willingly send their children to places like Straight Inc.
