Editing Synanon (section)

==Subsequent treatment approaches==
[[Mel Wasserman]], influenced by his Synanon experience, founded [[CEDU|CEDU Educational Services]], a company in the [[troubled teen industry]] that owned and operated several schools. CEDU's schools used the confrontational model of Synanon.<ref>
[http://www.bendbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091115/NEWS0107/911150428/1001/NEWS01&nav_category=NEWS01 "Ever unconventional, long controversial"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120313064038/http://www.bendbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20091115%2FNEWS0107%2F911150428%2F1001%2FNEWS01&nav_category=NEWS01 |date=2012-03-13 }}, by Keith Chu, ''The Bend Bulletin'', November 15, 2009
</ref> The CEDU model was widely influential on the development of parent-choice, private-pay residential programs. People originally inspired by their CEDU experience developed or strongly influenced a significant number of the schools in the [[therapeutic boarding school]] industry.{{citation needed|date=March 2024}} The company's schools have faced numerous allegations of abuse. CEDU went out of business in 2005, amid lawsuits and state regulatory crackdowns.

Father William B. O'Brien, the founder of New York's [[Daytop|Daytop Village]], included Synanon's group encounters and confrontational approach in his research into addiction treatment methods.<ref>
[http://www.daytop.org/history.html Daytop History] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222234947/http://www.daytop.org/history.html |date=2015-12-22 }} , Daytop Homepage, retrieved 3/25/2010
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The author, journalist, and activist [[Maia Szalavitz]] claims to chart the influence of Synanon in other programs including [[Phoenix House]], [[Straight, Incorporated]], and [[Boot camp (correctional)|Boot Camps]] in addition to those mentioned above.<ref>
{{cite web| first = Maia| last = Szalavitz| title = The Cult That Spawned the Tough-Love Teen Industry| url = https://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2007/09/how_a_cult_spawned_the_tough_love_teen_industry.html| publisher = [[Mother Jones (magazine)|Mother Jones]]| date = 2007-08-20| access-date = 2007-09-19| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070823091226/http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2007/09/how_a_cult_spawned_the_tough_love_teen_industry.html| archive-date = 2007-08-23| url-status = live}}
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