~ Rehab: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) – YouTube
Drug Rehab is a Billion Dollar Industry That Keeps People Addicted
- ~ $42 Billion U.S. Addiction Rehab Industry Poised for Growth, and Challenges – Market Research.com
- ~ Addiction Inc. – The New York Times.
- ~ America’s Only Publicly Traded Addiction Treatment Chain Makes Millions Off Patients. What Could Go Wrong? – Mother Jones
- ~ Analysis on United States’ $42B Addiction Rehab Industry; 1983-2018, 2020 & 2025 – Markets Insider
- ~ As Addiction Deaths Surge, Profit-Driven Rehab Industry Faces ‘Severe Ethical Crisis’ – NPR
- ~ Companies Aiming for the Billion-Dollar Opioid Addiction Market – GuruFocus.com
- ~ County’s $1 billion gold rush: Addiction treatment draws FBI – The Palm Beach Post
- ~ Inside The $35 Billion Addiction Treatment Industry – Forbes
- ~ Is the $35 Billion Rehab Industry Ready for a Disruption? – Daily Beast
- ~ Medicalizing Addiction – Freedom Magazine
- ~ The Billion-Dollar Rehab Racket That Drains Family Savings – Daily Beast
- ~ The Rehab Industry Needs to Clean Up Its Act. Here’s How. – HuffPost
- ~ Watch John Oliver Reveal Scams of America’s $35 Billion Rehab Industry – Rolling Stone
“Body Brokers” get kickbacks for getting an addict to relapse
~ Unethical Drug Rehab ‘Body Brokering’ Leads To Tragic Death – YouTube
~ Body Brokering Is Worsening The Opioid Epidemic – Newsy – VIDEO
~ Hear from a former broker and an expert in the field explain what patient brokering is and how it works.- ABC 6 Philadelphia – VIDEO
~ Patient brokering: Making profit off opioid addiction – ABC 6 Philadelphia – VIDEO
~ Disturbing Details of Body Brokering – YouTube
~ How to Spot Body Brokering – YouTube
~ I Was a Victim of Body Brokering – YouTube
- ~ ‘Body Brokers’ Get Kickbacks To Lure People With Addictions To Bad Rehab – WBUR News
- ~ ‘Body brokers killed my daughter’: Mother describes how her 23-year-old was lured from opioid rehab into a scam ‘sober house’ where she was billed $600,000 for ‘tests’ and plied with heroin until she overdosed – Daily Mail Online
- ~ Father blames “body broker” after son dies during drug rehab – CBS News
- ~ Melissa Leo on ‘so criminal, so American’ story of ‘Body Brokers’ – New York Daily News
- ~ No jail for 62 guilty pleas in body brokering case, sparking anger and questions – Orange County Register
- ~ Patient brokering: Making profit off opioid addiction – ABC 6 Philadelphia
- ~ Rehab patient brokering is rampant, but it’s hard to stop, industry says – Orange County Register
- ~ Unethical Drug Rehab ‘Body Brokering’ Leads To Tragic Death – CBS San Francisco
- ~ White-Collar Crime: Body Brokering in Sober Living and Rehabilitation Centers in the U.S. – Celeb
Drug Testing Racket
- ~ How a multimillion-dollar empire built around urine drug tests exposes flaws in California’s rehab laws – Orange County Register
- ~ I-Team- Drug rehab center bills patient’s insurance nearly $1,000 a day for drug testing – ABC Action News
The “Florida Shuffle”
~ The Florida Shuffle: The Sometimes Dirty Business of Rehab – NBC News – VIDEO
~ $7 Million jury verdict against American Addiction Centers rehab – WRTS Tampa Bay – VIDEO
~ New federal drug rehab bill inspired by “Florida Shuffle” – WFTS Tampa Bay – VIDEO
- ~ Addicts who lived at Florida sober home called ‘No Drug Zone’ overdosed – NBC News
- ~ County’s $1 billion gold rush- Addiction treatment draws FBI – The Palm Beach Post
- ~ Fix the Florida Shuffle to End Florida’s Opioid Epidemic – by Mary Anna Mancuso – Medium
- ~ Florida’s Billion-Dollar Drug Treatment Industry Is Plagued by Overdoses, Fraud – NBC News
- ~ Florida Drug Treatment Center Operators Busted in Crackdown – NBC News
- ~ In Florida Rehabs, Addicts Are Bought And Sold – Buzz Feed News
- ~ “Mom, When They Look at Me, They See Dollar Signs” – Mother Jones
- ~ Moms Unleash Anger on Corrupt Rehab Owner Sentenced to 27 Years – NBC News
- ~ My Years in the Florida Shuffle of Drug Addiction – The New Yorker
- ~ New federal drug rehab bill inspired by “Florida Shuffle” – WFTS Tampa Bay
- ~ She wanted drug rehab. She ended up in the Florida shuffle. – Vox
- ~ Sober Home and Drug Treatment Center Owner Sentenced: Facilities Preyed on Vulnerable Adults Struggling with Addiction — FBI
- ~ What is the Florida Shuffle? – Fix the Florida Shuttle
~ How Addicts Are Lured Into Sex Trafficking By Florida’s Fraudulent Rehab Centers – YouTube
Christopher Bathum: “The Rehab Mogul”
~ Malibu Rehab Mogul Accused Of Sexually Assaulting Patients – YouTube
~ ‘Rehab Mogul’ has 5 Colorado ‘sober living’ homes – YouTube
- ~ A Rehab Owner Drugged And Sexually Assaulted Patients At His Clinics – Buzz Feed
- ~ California “rehab mogul” Christopher Bathum accused of sexual assault, fraud – CBS News
- ~ California ‘Rehab Mogul’ Guilty of Raping Patients – PEOPLE.com
- ~ L.A. rehab owner gets more than 52 years in prison for sexually assaulting 7 women – KTLA
- ~ Los Angeles Rehab center owner pleads guilty to $175 million health care fraud – FCCED
- ~ ‘Rehab mogul’ accused of sexually assaulting patients and ‘elaborate’ fraud – Los Angeles Times
- ~ “Rehab mogul” convicted in LA of sexually assaulting 7 patients – CBS News
- ~ Rehab Mogul Caught In $175M Scam; Sex Charges Pending – Headline Health
- ~ ‘The Rehab Mogul’ sentenced to 52 years for assault, running $175 million healthcare billing scam – The Denver Channel
California
~ Widespread fraud in drug rehab – YouTube
- ~ 2013: Were teens used as fake rehab patients? – CNN – VIDEO
- ~ 2013: California’s rehab fraud crisis – CNN – VIDEO
- ~ 2013: Will California get tough on rehab? – CNN – VIDEO
- ~ Report: Fraud in taxpayer funded programs – CNN – VIDEO
- ~ CNN-CIR rehab fraud investigation prompts California Assembly hearing – CNN
- ~ How some Southern California drug rehab centers exploit addiction – Orange County Register
Widespread Fraud
~ Addiction doctor arrested for allegedly importing drugs – YouTube
~ Drug Rehab Scams Are Fueling Overdoses in Florida, Officials Say – NBC News – VIDEO
~ ‘Drug treatment fraud’ exacerbates opioid crisis – YouTube
~ Fighting America’s fraudulent rehab epidemic – CNBC – VIDEO
~ Rampant Fraud in Drug Treatment Industry Kills – YouTube
- ~ $7 Million jury verdict against American Addiction Centers rehab – WRTS Tampa Bay
- ~ 4 more staffers busted in massive drug-rehab ‘fraud scheme’ – New York Post
- ~ Arrested addiction doctor has had long struggle with drugs – buffalonews.com
- ~ Father and son from Inland Empire must pay $26.7 million for drug rehab fraud – San Gabriel Valley Tribune
- ~ Fighting America’s fraudulent rehab epidemic – CNBC
- ~ Many seeking opioid recovery in U.S. find relapse and fraud – CBC News
- ~ Notorious treatment center operator Chatman gets 27 years in prison – The Palm Beach Post
- ~ Teens claim they were used as fake rehab clients – CNN
- ~ New Report Alleges Fraud in California Drug Rehab Programs – KQED
Documentary
~ The Business of Recovery – Official Trailer – YouTube
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