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The Synanon Fix

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  • 2024-2024
  • 1 Season
  • Documentary, Suspense
  • TV-MA
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Explores the rise and fall of the Synanon organization through the eyes of the members who lived it, from its early days as a groundbreaking drug rehabilitation program to its later descent into what many consider a cult.

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Phil Ritter
Self
Ron Cook
Self
Elena Broslovsky
Self

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Episode 1

Here Come the Dopefiends

Mon, Apr 1, 202460 mins

Recovering alcoholic Charles "Chuck" Dederich opens a storefront drug rehabilitation program in Santa Monica in 1958, offering addicts a welcoming space to work through their problems via emotional, verbal catharsis. Synanon, as he names it, soon attracts celebrities and non-addicts who donate their time and wealth to the program. The community grows into a social movement that expands across the country, with thousands of people saying Synanon saved their lives.

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