Records, ca. 1956-1987.

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Records, ca. 1956-1987.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38272574

Collection consists of the records of the Synanon Foundation. Includes correspondence, recordings, films, video tapes, photographs, and printed materials.

564 boxes (282 linear ft.)118 cartons (59 linear ft.)32 boxes.

University of California, Los Angeles

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SNAC Resource ID: 7401473

University of California, Los Angeles

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Synanon (Foundation)

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Synanon was founded by Charles Dederich, Sr. in 1958; originally named TLC (Tender Loving Care Club), the group was renamed Synanon and had its headquarters in Santa Monica, CA; Synanon's detoxification therapy attracted wealthy drug and alcohol abusers, and eventually the organization became a $30 million nonprofit organization; chapters sprang up in San Francisco, Tulare and Marin Counties, Detroit, and as far as Germany and Malaysia; Dederich declared Synanon a religion in 1974; Dederich was ...

Dederich, Charles.

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