Daytop

{{Short description|Drug addiction treatment organization}}

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| name = Daytop Village, Daytop, aka Daytop Village New Jersey Inc., aka Daytop Prepatory School

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| image_caption = Daytop center in Brooklyn

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| foundation = 1963

| founder = Dr. Daniel Casriel M.D
Monsignor William B. O'Brien & Ex addict; Ron Brancato

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| locations = New York City, Mendham Borough, New Jersey{{cite web | url=https://www.healthgrades.com/group-directory/nj-new-jersey/mendham/daytop-village-of-new-jersey-inc-xsdbh6 | title=DAYTOP VILLAGE OF NEW JERSEY INC, Mendham, NJ }}{{cite web | url=http://daytopvillage.com/adolescent.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20021017094031/http://daytopvillage.com/adolescent.html | archive-date=2002-10-17 | title=Adolescent - Daytop - for a Drug Free World - New York, NY }}

| area_served = New Jersey {{cite web | url=http://daytopvillage.com/adolescent.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20021017094031/http://daytopvillage.com/adolescent.html | archive-date=2002-10-17 | title=Adolescent - Daytop - for a Drug Free World - New York, NY }} and New York

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Daytop, or Daytop Village, or “Daytop Village New Jersey Inc.” is a drug addiction treatment organization with facilities in New York City and New Jersey. It was founded in 1963[https://web.archive.org/web/20151222234947/http://www.daytop.org/history.html Daytop History], accessed 26 September 2009 in Tottenville, Staten Island[https://www.silive.com/news/2016/08/daytop_village_has_new_name_sa.html Daytop Village has new name, same mission: Saving lives] Retrieved May 18, 2020 by Daniel Harold Casriel along with Monsignor William B. O'Brien, a Roman Catholic priest and founder and president of the World Federation of Therapeutic Communities.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/11/13/nyregion/a-pioneer-in-residential-drug-treatment-reaches-out.html?pagewanted=1|newspaper=New York Times|date=13 Nov 1989|title=A Pioneer in Residential Drug Treatment Reaches Out}} Ron Brancato from the Pelham Bay area of Bronx New York, Program Director and former resident of Synanon, California. Synanon was the only other drug rehabilitation program until Daytop Village opened. Daytop also included a juvenile program based in Mendham, New Jersey.{{cite web | url=http://daytopvillage.com/adolescent.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20021017094031/http://daytopvillage.com/adolescent.html | archive-date=2002-10-17 | title=Adolescent - Daytop - for a Drug Free World - New York, NY }}{{cite web | url=https://www.newjerseyhills.com/daytop-mendham-breaks-ground/article_b07b8b7a-9441-5c81-927d-d8d0f0e954a3.html | title=Daytop Mendham breaks ground | date=10 June 2004 }}

The Mendham, New Jersey facility also included a school for juveniles called Daytop School.{{cite web | url=http://daytopvillage.com/adolescent.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20021017094031/http://daytopvillage.com/adolescent.html | archive-date=2002-10-17 | title=Adolescent - Daytop - for a Drug Free World - New York, NY }}

Father William B. O'Brien included Synanon's confrontational approaches, such as "attack therapy" and "behavior modification", in his addiction treatment methods.

[http://www.daytop.org/history.html Daytop History] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222234947/http://www.daytop.org/history.html |date=2015-12-22 }} , Daytop Homepage, retrieved 3/25/2010

Synanon has since been investigated as one of the "most dangerous and violent cults America had ever seen."{{Cite web |url=https://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/synanons-sober-utopia-how-a-drug-rehab-program-became-1562665776 |title=Synanon's Sober Utopia: How a Drug Rehab Program Became a Violent Cult |date=15 April 2014 |access-date=2017-12-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171207085521/https://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/synanons-sober-utopi-how-a-drug-rehab-program-became-1562665776 |archive-date=2017-12-07 |url-status=live }}

{{cite web| first = Maia| last = Szalavitz| title = The Cult That Spawned the Tough-Love Teen Industry| url = https://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2007/09/how_a_cult_spawned_the_tough_love_teen_industry.html| publisher = Mother Jones| date = 2007-08-20| access-date = 2007-09-19| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070823091226/http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2007/09/how_a_cult_spawned_the_tough_love_teen_industry.html| archive-date = 2007-08-23| url-status = live}}

According to Dr. Casriel its name was originally an acronym for "Drug Addicts Yield to Probation" as Daytop was originally a kind of "halfway house" for convicted addicts."A Scream Away From Happiness". New York: Grosset & Dunlap. 1972 p. 47{{ISBN?}} Another account gives the name to be an acronym for "Drug Addicts Yield to Persuasion". A third account gives the name to be an acronym for "Drug Addicts Yield to Others Persuasion."

The Daytop program, one of the oldest drug-treatment programs in the United States, is based on the therapeutic community model{{cite web|url=http://www.daytop.org/about.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160122073237/http://www.daytop.org/about.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=22 January 2016|title=About Us – Daytop New York – Drug and Alcohol Addiction Treatment|date=22 January 2016}} and emphasizes the role of peer interaction in their modes of treatment. Considered one of the most successful programs of its kind, it is described as "a supportive emotional community in which people feel secure but at the same time are held strictly accountable for their behavior". It is estimated that 85 percent of those treated stay clean.[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1252/is_22_129/ai_95953591/ Family connections: Monsignor O'Brien's Daytop Village – Of Several Minds], Paul Baumann, 2002, Commonweal {{Dead link|date=March 2017|fix-attempted=yes}}{{Cite journal |last1=Johnson |first1=Knowlton |last2=Pan |first2=Zhenfeng |last3=Young |first3=Linda |last4=Vanderhoff |first4=Jude |last5=Shamblen |first5=Steve |last6=Browne |first6=Thom |last7=Linfield |first7=Ken |last8=Suresh |first8=Geetha |date=2008-12-03 |title=Therapeutic community drug treatment success in Peru: a follow-up outcome study |journal=Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy |volume=3 |pages=26 |doi=10.1186/1747-597X-3-26 |issn=1747-597X |pmc=2631528 |pmid=19055774 |doi-access=free }}

It was during a 1980 visit to Daytop Village that future first lady Nancy Reagan initially became aware of the drug epidemic in the United States and the toll it was taking on the nation's youth. This event is widely acknowledged as the genesis of her "Just Say No" program.{{cite web|url=http://www.reaganfoundation.org/reagan/nancy/just_say_no.asp|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070812171917/http://www.reaganfoundation.org/reagan/nancy/just_say_no.asp|url-status=dead|archive-date=12 August 2007|title=Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation & Library|date=12 August 2007}}

In late 2015, Daytop Village merged with Samaritan Village, another 50+ year old health and human services nonprofit organization with a specialty in drug and alcohol treatment. The newly merged organization changed its name to Samaritan Daytop Village. Daytop's Mendham, New Jersey location has since closed amidst sexual and child abuse concerns.{{cite web | url=https://www.bishop-accountability.org/news2005_07_12/2005_08_10_Wright_ExPriest.htm | title=Ex-Priest Indicted in Daytop Sex Abuse Madison Resident Charged with Endangering 4 Teen Boys in Rehab }}{{cite web | url=https://www.dailyrecord.com/story/news/crime/morris-county/2016/10/19/former-daytop-new-jersey-donna-peirce-faley-sexual-misconduct/92411696/ | title=Ex-Daytop teacher admits sexual misdeeds with two residents }}