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Native Americans Targeted in Drug Rehab Frauds

Rehab Riviera: Addiction treatment empire faces criminal probe

Ocean Avenue Site Unsafe and Unpermitted, Santa Monica Mayor Says

Can a doctor get state's blessing to work with 37 addiction centers?

S.F. Mayor Daniel Lurie unveils plan to arrest and treat drug users

Court battle could expose ugliest strategies of drug rehab business

Ocean Avenue Mental Health Projects Pulled

Addiction treatment: Could the cure be worse than the disease?

Feds' campaign to squash body brokering in rehabs nabs two more men

From tough love to interventions: what works when a loved one is struggling with addiction

Why recovering from addiction is so hard in America

OC bans sale of synthetic kratom products

Rogue housing facility causes holiday chaos for city staff on Ocean Ave

Oklahoma patient pipeline: How an insurance scheme brought hundreds to California for drug treatment

Are we sure we're using fentanyl test strips the right way?

Caron's Florida facility must face jury for wrongful death of Philly teen

Rehab: An American Scandal (book)

Judge rejects Arizona's request to dismiss Medicaid fraud class action

AG's Office secures guilty plea and restitution in MassHealth kickback and false billing scheme

FTC: Evoke Wellness to pay $1.9M to settle misleading-consumers claims

Powerful film on addiction treatment horrors asks us to stop 'the shuffle'

A state legislator reverses course on abstinence-based homeless housing

Arizona officials can't find $2.4B in stolen Native health funds

Across the US, states struggling with regulating sober living homes

Tribes receive first grants from $6M Arizona fund for sober living fraud victims

Cumberland County rehab agrees to pay $19.75M under False Claims Act

BCBS Oklahoma v. Asana Recovery, Inc. et al filed

Hollywood Hills man sentenced for $2.9M kickbacks

Parents, Police, Advocates condemn Senate passage of HALT Fentanyl Act

New bill seeks to limit clustered drug rehab centers

Baltimore's drug problem so bad, people dying in the hospital

An Innovation Agenda for Addiction

2023-120 Drug and Alcohol Treatment Facilities audit

They keep finding — and losing — a granddaughter in the grip of addiction

Matthew Perry Promo w/ Kelly Osbourne: Rehab Brokers

Florida 'shuffle' investigation closed

Sober living homes were little more than drug dens, lawsuit says

Former Victorville doctor sentenced for illegal opioid prescribing

Hollister drug rehab center caught in wrongful death lawsuit

Date-rape fentanyl test strips finally legal in CA

Border Patrol seizes $4.3M in fentanyl along I-8

Out-of-pocket cost of naloxone keeps many uninsured from lifesaving treatment

Beverly Hills body broker sentenced to 10 years

Addiction Harm Reduction

Rehab Riviera: insurer wins big verdict against defunct Sovereign Health

Sober home owners guilty in Palm Beach County overdose deaths

State Attorney announces Jennifer Swanson conviction

Quincy woman charged with Medicaid fraud 4 times pleads guilty

Sober home owner sentenced to 30 months in $4.5M kickback scheme

County health department issues rare fentanyl warning to parents

Body Brokers: the business of making billions out of drug addiction

National addiction treatment locator: good start?

Medical director convicted in $112M fraud scheme

Facility operators sentenced in $112M fraud scheme

The groundbreaking sober living registry that never was

Addiction treatment chain settles billing fraud allegations

Father and son must pay millions for national rehab fraud

As addiction deaths surge, profit-driven rehab industry faces 'severe ethical crisis'

J&J and three companies close in on $26B opioid litigation deal

Purdue Pharma bankruptcy

Google's search results for addicts still plagued by scam rehab ads

Florida's billion-dollar drug treatment industry plagued by overdoses, fraud

CA governor signs some addiction treatment reform measures, rejects others

Rogue rehab facilities need state oversight

Drug rehabs are a booming, $35B industry — unregulated mess

Tougher rules for sober homes coming to OC

Unethical drug rehab 'body brokering' leads to tragic death

Examining Concerns of Patient Brokering and Addiction Treatment Fraud (Congressional Hearing Transcript)