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Are drug rehab centers fueling homelessness in Southern California?
Part of our ongoing investigation into the Southern California rehab industry. Thirteen-hundred miles from his rural Arkansas home, Tyler McCollough paces across a motel parking lot, veins bulging at...
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Urine empire, lax oversight expose flaws in California rehab laws
Part of our ongoing investigation into the Southern California rehab industry. Philip Ganong, his wife and their 34-year-old son built a fast-growing, multi-million-dollar empire on urine. They...
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Detox can end in death at some ‘non-medical’ Southern California rehabs
Part of our ongoing investigation into the Southern California rehab industry. “This is the beginning of your beautiful new life!” So began a contract for Above It All Treatment Center, a drug...
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Rehab Riviera: Are drugs for drug addicts a solution or a crutch?
The white pill looks like a baby aspirin. Brody Webster sticks it in his mouth and holds it there for 15 minutes, trying not to swallow. When the underside of his tongue finally goes numb, he knows he...
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Rehab Riviera: Industry struggling to get clean
Rapists, child molesters and pedophiles served in positions of trust inside state-licensed addiction treatment centers because, in California, no criminal background checks were required. Addiction...
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Bill aims to plug holes in addiction treatment industry
Stoned and crying in April, 2017, Timmy Solomon hears a voice. “What’s wrong, why are you so sad,” the voice slurs from a sleeping on the concrete near a gas station. The voice belongs to Timothy, a...
View ArticleFormer NBA star Dennis Rodman enters rehab after suspected DUI in Newport Beach
Dennis Rodman, a former NBA rebound champion who won five championships while playing for the Detroit Pistons and the Chicago Bulls and briefly was on the Lakers, has checked into a New Jersey rehab...
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Quest for sobriety often ends in sexual assault at some rehabs in Southern...
Part of our ongoing investigation into the Southern California rehab industry. The woman’s voice trembled. She was being treated for addiction at the rehab center Hope by the Sea, she told the 911...
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LA/OC ‘Rehab Mogul’ convicted of sexually exploiting patients and offering...
Self-desbribed “rehab mogul” Christopher Bathum, 56, the former operator of more than a dozen drug treatment facilities in Los Angeles and Orange counties, was convicted Monday, Feb. 26, 2018, of 31...
View ArticleCalifornia bill targets profiteering in addiction treatment, dialysis industries
By Chad Terhune, California Healthline A California lawmaker is seeking to rein in addiction treatment centers and dialysis providers accused of profiteering off vulnerable patients by collecting...
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State shuts down Pasadena-based ‘Celebrity Rehab’ center over death, repeated...
State health regulators are moving to revoke the license of a well-known Pasadena drug rehabilitation center made famous by the reality television show “Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew.” The Department...
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Bills targeting California rehab industry wait for Gov. Jerry Brown’s...
Gov. Jerry Brown speaks in Sacramento on May 24, 2018. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli) Still sitting on Gov. Jerry Brown’s desk: a bill that would enshrine “patient-brokering” – when licensed drug...
View ArticleCongress demands documents related to rehab industry’s ‘patient brokering’ of...
The U.S. House committee investigating the ugly underbelly of addiction rehab in America told eight call centers to cough up details about their business practices – including whether they get paid for...
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Addiction industry executives face off with lawmakers on Capitol Hill
Rep. Buddy Carter, R-GA Michael Cartwright, CEO American Addiction Centers SoundThe gallery will resume insecondsMark Mishek, CEO Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation Hearing room of the U.S. House Energy...
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Sober Living: Modern family or big business?
The rules at Joseph Scolari’s sober living home were clear: No drugs or alcohol, of course. Random searches. Drug tests. No sex. Scolari had known little about the sober living home industry just a few...
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Sober Living, Day 3: Lawsuits pile up; drive couple out of business
DAY 1: In So Cal’s Rehab Riviera, sober living homes are common. So is outrage. DAY 2: From neighbors to litigants; the gloves come off quickly. TODAY: Sober living was a $150,000-a-month business –...
View ArticleSober Living, Day 4: Lawmakers must force industry to shape up, many say
This is the last in a four-part series. Read Part 1: Outrage | Part 2: Litigation | Part 3: Legal bills The legal feud that pit sober living operators Joseph and Rebecca Scolari against their former...
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Rehab Riviera: 3 clean-up bills defy odds and hit governor’s desk, but are...
Most legislation aimed at cleaning up California’s dysfunctional addiction treatment industry slammed into brick walls, withered in suspense files or was watered down so much as to be unrecognizable –...
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New rehab laws may revamp addiction treatment in California
Gov. Jerry Brown signed a raft of bills into law Wednesday that will begin imposing order on the Wild Wild West of California’s addiction treatment system. Most take small steps in what reformers say...
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Empower local governments to regulate wayward sober homes, witnesses tell...
Rep. Judy Chu Attorney Todd Leishman SoundThe gallery will resume insecondsDave Aronberg, State Attorney for Palm Beach County., Florida (Photo by Paul Bersebach, Orange County Register/SCNG) The Costa...
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