Rehab Racket’: High Costs Of Addiction Treatment And Questions Over Efficacy

German Lopez, senior correspondent for Vox. He is working on a series on America’s addiction treatment industry called “The Rehab Racket.” (@germanrlopez)

Christina Delos Reyes, co-director of Addiction Recovery Services and director of the Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship at the University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center. Professor of psychiatry at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.

Interview Highlights

One family’s story of addiction treatment, and what it says about addiction treatment in the U.S.

German Lopez: “I talked to the family of Kimberly Blake. And she and her husband spent about $110,000 — or more — on addiction treatment. And their son still overdosed and died. And one of the facilities that they would go to — so there was ‘New Found Life’ in California, or there was the ‘[Little] Creek Lodge’ in Pennsylvania. And these places, they would go to them, and they would seem like they were good at first. They would promise all these nice things. The amenities, at times, seemed nice. But, they would find that these

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