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Shaved Heads, Snipped Tubes, Imperial Marines, and Dope Fiends
The rise and fall of Synanon, an addiction-recovery cult in California, and its charismatic leader, a one-time homeless wino named Chuck Dederich who taught his followers to berate each other for therapy.