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After a series of investigations, and numerous complains, the SEED program's funding was cut and the rehabilitation centers set to close when their funds ran out. A number of individuals, including Mel Sembler, organized to bring the SEED program into the private arena, named Straight Inc.
For 17 years Mel Sembler's Straight program was the biggest chain of juvenile drug rehabilitation programs in America. But former clients have come forward to say they were severely abused by Straight's "[[brainwashing]] methods." There have been over 40 suicides associated with Straight and its imitators. The anti-Straight crowd continues to protest Mel Sembler. His business interests are protested by the Uhurus for allegations of racial descrimination and by anti-[[Iraq war]] activists. The Sembler story is at "[http://www.thestraights.com theStraights dot com]".
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==External links==
*[http://www.thestraights.com theStraights dot.com]
*"[http://www.usembassy.it/mission/amb/amb-bio-en.htm Mel Sembler U.S. Ambassador to Italy]", US [[Department of State]], accessed June 2004.
*Wesley Fager, "[http://www.thestraights.com/melsembler/index.htm Unauthorized Biography of Ambassador Melvin Sembler]."
*"[http://www.webdiva.org/fox/ FOX News on Sembler and Straight]".