Sinanon and Its Neighbors

In 19 58, 25 dopers hanging around the tender loving care club with chuck were living on knife's edge. Money was thin, and many didn't know what would happen to them if they all went their separate ways. The group survived by stealing, sometimes hooking, subsisting on whatever they could hustle. And it's finally at this point in the story that cinonon earns its name,. There's been a lot of speculation on the precise origins of the name. It certainly sounds sinister enough, but the generally accepted one is that it's a product of a wet brained ex drunk who excitedly mixed up symposium and anonymous. But the nae was nonsense.