Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. During the 1950s, Detroit, like other urban cities, had startling numbers of residents suffering from drug abuse and the city ...

Since Synanon House set itself up in Santa Monica four and a half years ago as a mutual self-help cure station for drug addicts, it has seen its fame spread across the country. And for good reason.

Synonon, a word derived from a junkie’s mispronunciation of seminar, is the name given to a self-help haven for drug addicts, founded seven years ago in California and now offering shelter and hope to ...

During the 1950s, Detroit, like other urban cities, had startling numbers of residents suffering from drug abuse and the city became the ideal starting ground for the country's first drug ...