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In the middle of the night, they are vanished.Each year thousands of young adults deemed out of control - suffering from depression, addiction, anxiety, and rage - are carted off against their will to remote wilderness programs and treatment facilities across the country. Desperate parents of these "troubled teens" fear it's their only option. The private, largely unregulated behavioral boot camps break their children down, a damnation the children suffer forever.Acclaimed journalist Kenneth R. Rosen knows firsthand the brutal emotional, physical, and sexual abuse carried out at these programs. He lived it. In Troubled, Rosen unspools the stories of four graduates on their own scarred journeys through the programs into adulthood. Based on three years of reporting and more than one hundred interviews with other clients, their parents, psychologists, and health-care professionals, Troubled combines harrowing storytelling with investigative journalism to expose the disturbing truth about the massively profitable, sometimes fatal, grossly unchecked redirection industry.
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Kenneth R. Rosen is a contributing writer at WIRED and the journalist-in-residence at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. He is the author of two books of narrative nonfiction and a 2021 Alicia Patterson Fellow. Previously, he spent six years on staff at The New York Times. A two-time finalist for the Livingston Award, he is the recipient of a Calderwood Foundation Art of Nonfiction Grant, a Logan Nonfiction Fellowship, and a Robert Novak Fellowship through the Fund for American Studies. He lives with his wife and two children between Italy and Massachusetts. To find out more, visit www.kennethrrosen.com/
