The Synanon Fix: Did the Cure Become a Cult? — Season 1, Episode 1: Here Come the Dopefiends
Documentary • 61 min • 1 season, 4 episodes • ★ 6.8/10
Episode synopsis
Recovering alcoholic Chuck Dederich opens a storefront drug rehabilitation program that gains a following through its confrontational talk-therapy approach. As the program attracts non-addicts and celebrity followers, Synanon grows into a social movement that rapidly expands across the country.
About The Synanon Fix: Did the Cure Become a Cult?
Explore 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.