n.
Providing a homeless person or mentally-ill patient with a one-way bus ticket to another city.
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"The problem is that those who come to Milwaukee on one-way bus tickets get more than a night's lodging, said Joe Volk, chairman of Milwaukee's Emergency Shelter Task Force. They become part of the Milwaukee shelter system because shelter workers are obligated to try to help them find some type of permanent income as well as housing. . . .'In the trade, it's known as Greyhound therapy,' Volk said. 'That's how a lot of smaller communities deal with their mental health problem by giving them a one-way ticket out of town.' "
— Fran Bauer, "Busing of homeless lays burden elsewhere," Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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New words. 2013.