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Part One: Synanon: The Drug Rehab Program That Built Its Own Army
Behind the Bastards
Alcoholics Anonymous
The first celebrity rehab facility was the Charles B. Townes Hospital, which opened in 1901. It treated alcoholics with belladonna, which is a poison. "I don't recommend taking belladonna," he says. The hospital cost $350 a day in 1901, about $5,600 a day in modern currency.
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