Today on Leonard Lopate at Large, Mother Jones reporter Julia Lurie details the major health hazards rehab recruiters are exposing recovering addicts to under the guise of trying to help.
“The offer was too good to resist: Go to rehab for a week, get $1,000 in cash. It was early 2017, and Brianne, a 20-year-old from a woody Atlanta suburb, had come to South Florida to leave her heroin addiction behind,” read the opening lines of Julia Lurie’s feature article in the latest issue of Mother Jones magazine entitled “Hooked: How rehab recruiters are luring recovering opioid addicts into a deadly cycle.”
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