Wednesday October 17, 2007 [Category: General 
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Has tough love taken another one?
Posted by gwfrink3
Tough Love was the setting for another teenager's death while belated debate over the largely unregulated, unaccountable residential treatment industry for teenagers proceeded.
The Philadelphia Inquirer reported:
Omega Leach, the Philadelphia teen killed in June after the city sent him to a Tennessee treatment center, died of strangulation after a fight with a staff member there, according to the Tennessee medical examiner.The residential addiction treatment industry is big, profitable and offers so much whose therapeutic value is either unverifiable, regarded as vacant, responsibly believed likely to be negative or as the Government Accountability Office demonstrated to Congress, fraught with a form of treatment failure called death.
The death has been ruled a homicide, the autopsy report says.
Bruce P. Levy found that Leach had "multiple hemorrhages" of his neck muscles from a clash June 2 with two staffers at the Chad Youth Enhancement Center outside Nashville. ...
What is that on my hands? And yours.
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