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

Behind the Bastards

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The History of Alcoholics and Addiction

In the 1910s, US states had started passing laws that legislated the mandatory sterilization of alcoholics and addicts. After World War II, when they found out about all of the horrific crimes of the Nazi concentration camps, one group of people they didn't punish were the Nazi doctors who had sterilized the mentally ill and drug addicts. So they were like, we can't punish these guys. We're doing the same thing. A lot of Nazi doctors got off, Scott free. Don't love it because, yeah, it's it's history. It's always growingThe lesson is, well, we're not going to stop doing that. We're looking at monsters and seeing what

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