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Synanon, originally known as Tender Loving Care, was a new religious movement founded in 1958 by Charles E. "Chuck" Dederich Sr. in Santa Monica, California, United States. Originally established as a drug rehabilitation program, Synanon developed into an alternative community centered on group truth-telling sessions that came to be known as ...
The couple claimed the wife had been held captive by Synanon, and during her stay, leaders at Synanon attempted to brainwash her. [ 22 ] [ 23 ] On October 10, 1978, Morantz was bitten by a rattlesnake placed in his mailbox, at his home in Pacific Palisades .
By the early 1970s, Synanon ran 14 facilities across the country in California, Texas, New York, Washington D.C., and Michigan, with more than 10,000 members, according to "The Synanon Fix."
Rory Kennedy and Mark Bailey, the filmmakers behind HBO's docuseries "The Synanon Fix," spoke about the group, its followers and the dangers of blindly following a charismatic leader.
After winning a $300,000 judgment against Synanon, a once respected drug rehab group that had devolved into a paranoid, paramilitary cult, the ice under his feet got even thinner.
He went to rehab in September 1963 at Synanon houses in Santa Monica and San Francisco, during which time he met his first wife, Ellen David. They moved to New York City's Upper West Side , where their four children were born: their son, Josh, in 1968, and in 1971, their triplet daughters Petra, Rachel, and Tanya.
Jollett was born in Santa Monica in the experimental commune society called Synanon. [3] Until he was five, he and his older brother were raised apart from their parents in Synanon schools. [4] [5] Jollett's father had been incarcerated in Chino State Prison from 1963 to 1966 [6] prior to joining Synanon where he overcame a heroin addiction.
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