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Episode 518: The Troubled Teen Industry Part II: Synanon - The Dirty Double Dozen

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The Second Day of Your Restaurant Life

Chuck Dieterich was a Gulf oil sales executive from Toledo, Ohio who was a self-admitted alcoholic for 20 years. His drinking problem was blamed on a bout of meningitis that required a mastoidectomy that caved in the right side of his face. He fell in love with AA because he could use the meetings as an open mic to tell stories which were by all accounts quite entertaining. Drick decided to participate in an experiment at UCLA that wanted to test the effectiveness of LSD on alcoholics. And this may or may not have been one of the lighter MK-Ultra experiments but you know, not every LSD experiment done at a university in 50s is funded by the

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