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The Sunshine Place
Once called “the miracle on the beach,” Synanon began in the 1960s as an experimental rehab facility in Santa Monica, California with a radical claim: It could cure heroin addiction. Before...
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S2|E8: Survivors
By the early 2000s, the “troubled teens” of Straight Incorporated have grown up, and they’re no longer victims, they’re survivors. Many of t...
S2|E7: KIDS
It’s the 1990s, and the rehab landscape has changed, but into this new environment enters a familiar opportunist. Dr. Miller Newton, the per...
S2|E6: Poster Child
Princess Diana graces Straight Incorporated with her presence at the invitation of the First Lady, Nancy Reagan. Their visit puts the progra...
S2|E5: The Mayflower Group
Straight Incorporated sets its sites on the next prime market. The suburbs of Washington, D.C., with its population of wealthy and powerful...
S2|E4: Drug Warriors
As Straight Incorporated makes plans to expand across the country, the program’s founder recruits a powerful ally with connections to the Wh...
S2|E3: Start Again
The Seed is heading down a dark and dangerous path, but nobody seems to realize it, except for the kids. As The Seed grows, so does the ego...
S2|E2: The Seed
To understand Straight, we have to look back at its predecessor: The Seed. This Florida-based rehab center was founded by Art Barker, a form...
S2|E1: Intake
On Halloween of 1982, a Florida teenager named Valerie is kidnapped from her home, by her own mom. She ends up at an experimental drug rehab...
Introducing: The Sunshine Place, Season 2
Welcome to the 1980s, where the war on drugs rages on and America's teenagers are caught in the crossfire. Enter Straight Incorporated, a co...
S1|E8: The First Day of the Rest of Your Life
Chuck Dederich's story reaches its conclusion. Whether or not Synanon does is up for debate.
S1|E7: The Holy War
Chuck is consumed by paranoia and Synanon erupts in violence.
S1|E6: Changing Partners
After Chuck's wife Betty passes away, he quickly finds a new partner, and he instructs his followers to find new ones too, whether they want...
S1|E5: The Breeders
Chuck declares that there will be no more children born in Synanon, and he goes to great lengths to make sure of it.
S1|E4: The Punk Squad
Chuck breaks one of his two rules for Synanon, no violence, beginning with his youngest followers.
S1|E3: The Trip
Legend, ritual, religion, LSD. Chuck experiments with all of it on his followers in Synanon.
S1|E2: The Miracle on the Beach
Chuck Dederich hits rock bottom as an alcoholic in the beachside slums of Los Angeles. It's 1958, and he's got nothing but an idea, but it's...
S1|E1: The Kidsnatchers
Welcome to Synanon. If you're wondering what Synanon is, then you're asking the same question as Celena and Mike, whose lives change forever...
Welcome to The Sunshine Place
Once called “the miracle on the beach,” Synanon began in the 1960s as an experimental rehab facility in Santa Monica, California with a radi...
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