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Synanon rehab center turned from helping to brainwashing with 'communal living experiment,' docuseries reveals
A California rehabilitation foundation for people addicted to heroin transformed into a "communal living experiment" with cult-like tendencies in the 1950s, according to a new documentary series.
'From Healing to Horror': Was Synanon, the Rehab Program that Became a Religious Movement, a Cult?
In 1958, he founded the organization Synanon in Santa Monica, Calif. The organization began as a rehabilitation program but ...