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...Santa Monica, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 26, 1961 | 5/26/1961 | See Source »

...Your courage to tell the true story of the Synanon House in Santa Monica [where narcotics addicts help themselves and each other kick the habit] and the poor dope addicts is truly commendable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 28, 1961 | 4/28/1961 | See Source »

CHARLES DEDERICH Synanon House Santa Monica, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 28, 1961 | 4/28/1961 | See Source »

During the second stage, the ex-addict works at a regular job on the outside, contributes part of his wages to the group, continues to live at the house. One such is a middle-class college graduate who is now a salesgirl in a Santa Monica department store, after a flight that took her through prostitution and prison. Despite the new start, she still feels unable to live on her own in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: S.S. Hang Tough | 4/7/1961 | See Source »

Local Hostility. Synanon's record in curing narcotics addicts is a matter of indifference to many of its respectable neighbors along the Santa Monica beachfront. Although the institution has won many friends in the community by dispatching its members to address local service-club meetings and high school assemblies, within days after it moved into the deserted armory a petition signed by 31 of Synanon's neighbors protested the invasion. Six months later, a municipal judge found Synanon guilty of violating the local zoning ordnance. A final appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court failed last February when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: S.S. Hang Tough | 4/7/1961 | See Source »

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