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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bolivia's US-sanctioned Attorney General Roger Mariaca was arrested on suspicion of money laundering and drug trafficking, with police finding $300,000 in cash smuggled out of his house in an ...

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 ...

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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The HBO Original four-part documentary series THE SYNANON FIX, from filmmakers Rory Kennedy and Mark Bailey (HBO's “Ethel,” “Downfall: The Case Against Boeing”) debuts MONDAY, APRIL 1 (9:00-10:00 p.m.

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Charles 'Chuck' Dederich founded Synanon, a group that originally began as a drug rehabilitation program before evolving into a ...