From books and docuseries to podcasts and big-screen thrillers, true-crime tales are everywhere. Much of it is thinly researched retreads of well-worn cases and subjects that feel exploitative in the ...

HBO recently premiered a documentary series titled The Synanon Fix, which showcased the exploits of an organization called Synanon. Initially, this organization offered revolutionary drug ...

Viewers of The Synanon Fix Season 1 are wondering how many episodes are in the series and their release. The Synanon Fix is a documentary series directed and produced by Rory Kennedy. Furthermore, ...

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 ...

Four months after Born In Synanon debuted on Paramount+, Synanon is getting the HBO documentary treatment with The Synanon Fix. The four-part docuseries covers a lot of the same ground, but all the ...

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Currently a features writer at Collider, Elisa Guimarães is an arts and entertainment journalist and a critic with over a decade of experience. Passionate about movies and TV shows as a whole, she ...

In the late 1950s, Charles “Chuck” Dederich started a drug rehabilitation program out of a storefront in Santa Monica. A recovering alcoholic who’d gotten sober through Alcoholics Anonymous, Dederich ...

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Charles 'Chuck' Dederich founded Synanon, a group that originally began as a drug rehabilitation program before evolving into a notorious cult in the 1970s Gordon Peters/San Francisco Chronicle via ...

When Chuck Dederich opened Synanon in a storefront on the Venice Boardwalk in 1958, it was the only residential drug rehab that existed in Los Angeles. There were no doctors or nurses or methadone for ...