Leonard Lopate At Large: Julia Lurie

March 27, 2019 00:56:27
Leonard Lopate At Large: Julia Lurie
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Leonard Lopate At Large: Julia Lurie

Mar 27 2019 | 00:56:27

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Show Notes

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.

Julia Lurie

“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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