Greyhound therapy is a
pejorative
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term used in the
US health care system
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since the mid-1960s to refer to mental health authorities' buying a ticket on a
Greyhound Lines bus to get rid of possible "troublemaker" patients.
The practice is still in use in certain mental-health circles.
''
Diesel therapy'' or ''motorcoach therapy'' are similar terms for the practice and are usually used pejoratively.
See also
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Health care in the United States
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Penal transportation
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Homeless dumping
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Rawson-Neal Hospital
References
Mental health in the United States
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