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Part Two: Synanon: The Drug Rehab Program That Built Its Own Army

Behind the Bastards

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I Don't Give a Fuck. It's the Hatchery Bucket.

Charles Dederick called mothers who wanted to see their own children too much. He justified this by saying basically junkies are too much our children, right? And kids can't raise kids. So he started sending newborn babies and young children of his members away to be raised in a central facility he called the hatchery. Michael Gillette writes that he was raised to believe he was a drug addict because his father had been one.

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