Dead Inside: They tried to break me. This is the true story of how I survived
Age range 14 to 17
Etler's intense memoir uncovers the lies behind Straight, Inc., a teen rehab facility that gave teens hell—now in paperback.
By age fourteen, Cyndy escaped from her violent home, only to be reported as a runaway and sent to a drug rehab facility that changed her world.
In this gritty, true account of a living nightmare, Cyndy chronicles the horrific sixteen months she spent suffering sleep deprivation, physical abuse, and brainwashing as she was "healed" by Straight, Inc., a program the ACLU call "a concentration camp for throwaway teens."