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Synanon was founded in 1958 by Charles Dederich Sr., a member of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) from Santa Monica, California. [ 3] At the time of Synanon's founding, those suffering from drug addiction were not always welcomed into AA because their issues were considered significantly different from those of alcoholics.
Gold Rush era Portrait of a Californiowoman of Hispanic descent. Women in the California Gold Rush, which began in Northern California in 1848, initially included Spanish descendants, or Californios, who already lived in California, Native American women, and rapidly arriving immigrant women from all over the world.
In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the use of thalidomide in 46 countries by women who were pregnant or who subsequently became pregnant resulted in the "biggest anthropogenic medical disaster ever," with more than 10,000 children born with a range of severe deformities, such as phocomelia, as well as thousands of miscarriages. [ 1][ 2 ...
Betty Ford Center. / 33.7630802°N 116.4013637°W / 33.7630802; -116.4013637. The Betty Ford Center ( BFC) is a non-profit, residential treatment center for persons with substance dependence in Rancho Mirage, California. It offers inpatient, outpatient, and residential day treatment for alcohol and other drug addictions, as well as ...
In June, the FDA's Psychopharmacologic Drugs Advisory Committeevoted 9-2 against MDMA as an effective treatment for PTSD patients, and 10-1 that the drug's benefits do not outweigh the risks.
Details. Country. U.S. State (s) Illinois, California. Jemeker Thompson-Hairston is an American former drug dealer who rose to the top of the cocaine trade during the peak of the 1980s crack epidemic in the United States. She was based in "South Central" Los Angeles and had cocaine distributors in multiple US cities working for her.
Crime rates fall. Despite the rise in overdose deaths, crime rates have fallen since 2020. Overall crime dropped in San Francisco by 7% in 2023 from the previous year, and violent crime was down ...
On June 15, 1990, 9-year-old Autumn Wallace was stabbed to death. Prosecutors say 18-year-old Alfaro, an acquaintance of the family, robbed the house for drug money, and killed Wallace so she would not be identified. 32 years, 1 month and 5 days In August 2007, the California Supreme Court voted unanimously to uphold Alfaro's death sentence.