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Greyhound therapy is a pejorative term used in the US health care system since the mid-1960s to refer to mental health authorities' buying a ticket on a Greyhound Lines bus or other coach bus to get rid of possible "troublemaker" patients. [1] [2]
The practice is still in use in certain mental-health circles. [3] [4]
Diesel therapy or motorcoach therapy or "bus therapy" are similar terms for the practice and are usually used pejoratively.