Candy Latson – a Synanon original
…. “this inmate was the kind of sneak who would keep his cigarettes in his socks to avoid sharing them with his friends.”
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Lexington by Ted Dibble
From its opening in 1935, the United States Narcotic Farm in Lexington, Kentucky, epitomized the nation’s ambivalence about how to deal with…
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Reid Kimball
‘No sir, I could not do such a thing. I could no more go to the docks with you and turn tricks,…
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My Interview by Margo Macartney
Admitting failure at age 26, moving in with a bunch of losers, and having quite literally no idea of where I was headed pointed to…
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Thoughts on Synanon’s History
they couldn’t use that name because there was already a TLC Club. casting around for another name, they came up with Synanon, a mispronunciation of…
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Bettye Coleman Tells Her Story
The love that I’ve always wanted, I found by loving other people.
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A Recipe for Clean Man Days
In addition to verbal wrestling, the game provided an outlet for frustration, pouting, self-pity and disappointment. From time to time it became a confessional.
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