After building a small fortune, Synanon’s megalomaniac leader turns the revolutionary rehab into a violent cult.
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American Rehab Chapter 1: A Desperate Call
Penny Rawlings is relieved to finally get her brother into rehab at a place called Cenikor. She doesn’t realize that getting him out of treatment is going to be the bigger problem.
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Listen to American Rehab, a podcast series from Reveal
Reveal exposes how a treatment for drug addiction has turned tens of thousands of people into an unpaid, shadow workforce.
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Drug rehab ‘skirted compliance with the labor laws’ for financial gain, judge rules
A top Arkansas senator used unpaid rehab workers at his plastics factory. Now, participants have been awarded more than $1.1 million in back wages.
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Drug rehab shutters amid coronavirus outbreak, sending residents scrambling
At a Cenikor drug rehab in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, residents were given two days to find a place to live. Some became homeless.