Our colleges are the cornerstone of an important neighborhood. In 2007, the U.S. Government Accountability Office published an examination of the deaths of a number of teenagers attending programs in which endurance tests have been part of their treatment. In testimony before Congress, GAO officials quoted from one program brochure, which advertised that the primary five days had been days and nights of bodily and psychological stress with pressured march, evening hikes, and restricted food and water. Youth are stripped mentally and physically of fabric facades and all manipulatory instruments.” One young girl with a drug habit died after collapsing on Day Three. The girl’s parents had taken out a $25,000 loan to pay for this system.

Researchers have been making breakthroughs in addiction drugs for many years. However attempts to integrate science into therapy coverage have been repeatedly stymied by scaremongering politics. Within the early Seventies, the Nixon administration …