Troubled : Little A : 9781542007887 : 1542007887 : 08 Dec 2020 : A New York Times Editor's Choice One of Newsweek's Most Highly Anticipated Books of 2021 Named a Bustle Best Book of 2021 An award-winning journalist's breathtaking mosaic of the tough-love industry and the young adults it inevitably fails. 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 scarre