Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Charles Dederich, a former alcoholic who had gotten sober through Alcoholics Anonymous, started Synanon in 1958, during a heroin ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new four part HBO documentary series (on Crave in Canada), The Synanon Fix, explores the rehab program that began in California ...

When I was a kid growing up in the Berkeley flatlands, I used to play with a couple of neighbor kids, Tony and his little brother, Mikey. One day in 1979, two men got out of a car, approached Tony and ...

Reveal’s American Rehab exposes how a treatment for drug addiction has turned tens of thousands of people into an unpaid shadow workforce. In this chapter: After building a small fortune, Synanon’s ...

Close to 90% of drug addicts at federal hospitals suffer relapses once they are released. At Synanon, a privately run California halfway house for narcotics users, a combination of selfhelp, trust and ...

Trigger Warning: This piece contains descriptions of abuse. Netflix’s The Program explores the troubled teen industry from the perspective of someone who went through it. Filmmaker Katherine Kubler ...

A new Paramount+ docuseries, “Born in Synanon,” investigates the California cult’s history of abuse, sexual coercion, and murder-for-hire plots. Entertainment Critic Born in Synanon is the story of ...

Currently unspooling across four episodes on HBO and continuing to stream on Max is The Synanon Fix, the latest true-crime catnip from the cable channel that’s not a juggernaut of the genre. And while ...

What happens when a rehab program that is supposed to cure addictions becomes addictive itself? That’s the story of Synanon, an organization that went from providing revolutionary therapy to becoming ...