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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...
Listen to The Sunshine Place, a Society & Culture podcast by Audacy Podcasts | Team Downey. Stream 19 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.
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It’s the 1990s, and the rehab landscape has changed, but into this new environment enters a familiar opportunist. Dr. Miller Newton, the per...
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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...
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...
Chuck Dederich's story reaches its conclusion. Whether or not Synanon does is up for debate.
Chuck is consumed by paranoia and Synanon erupts in violence.
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...
Chuck declares that there will be no more children born in Synanon, and he goes to great lengths to make sure of it.
Chuck breaks one of his two rules for Synanon, no violence, beginning with his youngest followers.
Legend, ritual, religion, LSD. Chuck experiments with all of it on his followers in Synanon.
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...
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...
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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The Sunshine Place is listed as a Society & Culture show. The show language is listed as English.
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