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You can stream The Synanon Fix: Did the Cure Become a Cult? (2024) on Max with a subscription.

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.

Inside the radical rehabilitation centers of the sixties, a revolutionary drug treatment program slowly mutated into a paranoid, insulated society. Survivors recount how the promise of sobriety eventually surrendered to the absolute control of a charismatic leader.

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