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hurt or discouraged, they seek some form of quick escape or relief. Some such emotionally upset types may turn to alcohol instead of drugs, still others, finding no relief in anything, break down completely. Unfortunately, there is no one source of the trouble. Each person's emotional crisis is peculiar to himself.
"Yet there are certain weapons useful in the fight against this scourge. I am thinking particularly of Synanon. This organization's purpose is to help addicts who wish to help themselves. As anyone with any knowledge of the narcotics problem knows, the first step toward a cure is the desire to help oneself."
"Synanon" is a new word in the language of therapy. But, if its backers have their wish, it will some day offer as much hope and meaning to addicts as Alcoholics Anonymous does to drunks. It is already becoming the flag around which these unfortunates with the monkey on their backs can rally. Synanon not only has a base of operations— Synanon House in Santa Monica, California — but methods and an attitude rooted in hard-rock experience.
The "home," at present, is in an old armory on the beach with a fine view of the blue Pacific. It has given refuge to as many as eighty-five addicts at one time but can make room for more, if need be.
Addicts sign themselves in as "guests" for at least a month and, after a "gutlevel" interview, pledge to go off the stuff "cold turkey." There is no halfway measure. The guest obeys the "hands off drugs" ruling or he leaves. No restraint is put on him, if he feels he can't get along without drugs and wants to leave. But everything short of drugs is given to encourage him to stay.
He is admitted to group discussions as an aid to the therapy. These discussions are sometimes called "seminars" and it is typical of the goodhumored, even lighthearted mood of the "inmates" — as they wryly refer to themselves — that, when one of the first guests happened to mispronounce "seminar" and called it "synanon," the others gleefully took this up as their name.
"You can sum up Synanon very simply," says Steve Allen. "It's an open door that swings both ways. Race, creed, sex, color or station in life counts for nothing at Synanon. Their door is wide enough to admit any human being, caught in the narcotics trap, who's set on kicking the habit, on climbing back into decent society."
The torture— and the rewards
If Synanon fulfills the promise of the present, it will be largely because of its founder and moving spirit, Charles E. ("Chuck") Dederich. It was in his home that the first small group of addicts met to talk out their problems and seek help. And he played a major role in the development of the methods and policy.
"We've been remarkably successful with our approach to the problem," he says. "We've had quite a few people come down to study and write about our work, including some psychiatrists
and psychologists. All of us at Synanon have been giving our best to the men and women here, and I can't start to describe the feeling of accomplishment and relief we share with the addict who succeeds in kicking the habit. It's just as if we passed through the torture of withdrawal with him. I suppose, in a sense, we did."
In spite of his pride in the organization, Dederich clearly takes a practical view of the inmates: "We're well aware that many of them turn to us only when the law is breathing down their necks. Some have served time in Federal hospitals 'drying out,' but the treatment didn't last — possibly because there was no time to dig into the depths of their psychological and emotional troubles. We have no illusions about this. There are women who've come to us for help only when they were one step from prostitution. Dope is a very expensive hobby. Synanon House gives them a haven, a little time to gather their wits and their courage, to find themselves again, to patch up a world that was about to fall apart."
Steve explains that he got interested in Synanon "after reading an article which gave the impression that all jazz musicians were addicts. I began looking into the subject, and that's how I ran into the work of Chuck Dederich. I want to say, right now, that people from every trade or profession are candidates for the habit. Let me add that Synanon is getting support from people in all these walks of life!
"There are entertainers like myself, my wife Jayne Meadows, singers like Oscar Brown Jr. and Anita O'Day, producers like Jed Harris, writers like Ray Bradbury and Rod Serling, and so on. Contributions are coming in from all of them, but the work has really just started."
Aside from cash offerings, Steve and Jayne back Synanon in other ways. When they went hunting, they returned with a freezer filled with antelope meat and donated it to the "home." At Eastertime, they invited the children of inmates— about fifteen boys and girls living at Synanon with their mothers — and hosted an egg-roll and party.
The day after Marilyn Monroe's death from an overdose of sleeping pills, Steve was asked for a comment. Shaking his head sadly, he remarked, "Our tears for that warm, beautiful, unhappy girl will be wasted unless we learn something from her tragedy. Obviously, she was in need of help, real help — the kind of sympathetic understanding offered by the dedicated members of Synanon. All she got was drugs, to calm her nerves, to give her energy when she was tired and bewildered, to escape her problems in sleep. Believe me, there are thousands of girls like Marilyn who are crying 'Help!' in their hearts this very minute. But it's like shouting down a dark tunnel with nobody there to listen or answer the appeal. . . ."
Furthering rehabilitation by giving the ex-addicts jobs is strongly urged by Synanon. Steve has showed the way in this by asking the Synanon jazz combo to appear on "Jazz Scene, U.S.A.," a new series his Meadowlane Productions
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