“Elan” is an adolescent rehab center in Poland, Maine. It’s gotten some attention of late as it was allegedly where Michael Skakel admitted to murdering Martha Moxley. In court testimony at Skakel’s trial, some pretty familiar synanon-type abuses the center employs were brought to light. As far as I can tell, there’s no formal Straight connection (Straight archivist Wes Fager can’t connect any dots, either), but Elan and Straight do share the synanon philosophy and its accompanying tennets that physical abuse, mental rape and confinement are proper and sometimes necessary weaponry in the war on drugs.

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