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The Pulitzer finalist and author of “Rehab: An American Scandal” talks about how she approaches human stories that spotlight injustice

Hospitals routinely use unreliable drug tests at childbirth, and many parents are reported to child welfare agencies and the police. Here’s what you can do.

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An American Scandal

Investigative Reporter Shoshana Walter examined the for-profit drug rehabilitation treatment industry and argued that it fails to help people suffering from opioid addiction. Book Passage in Corte Mad...

Nearly eight years ago, journalist Shoshana Walter followed a lead on a drug and alcohol rehab program that put patients to work at a chicken plant. What she found was one of many programs that…

In her new book, journalist Shoshana Walter revelas how many programs exploit patients, bar mothers, underuse buprenorphine, and worsen racial and gender disparities.

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On this week’s “More To The Story,” author and journalist Shoshana Walter explains how the underregulated drug rehab industry in America is often failing people battling substance abuse.

In her new book, journalist Shoshana Walter takes aim at the nation's drug treatment system and finds it sorely lacking.

Featuring [Moderator] Jessica Shortall, Safer From Harm Coalition and Strategic Partnerships Lead at R Street Institute Shoshana Walter, Author, Rehab: An American Scandal Overview There’s broad agree...

Pulitzer finalist Shoshana Walter exposes the country’s failed response to the opioid crisis, and the malfeasance, corruption, and snake oil which blight the drug rehabilitation industry. Our country’s leaders all seem to agree: People who suffer from addiction need treatment. Today, more people have access to treatment than ever before. So why isn’t it working? The answer is that in America—where anyone can get addicted—only certain people get a real chance to recover.

In her new book, ‘Rehab: An American Scandal,’ Shoshana Walter explores how the giant substance treatment industry keeps failing many people desperate for help.

Its tactics recall North Korean brainwashing techniques.

We talk about the dark side of the rehab industry, the ways patients are exploited for profit and who actually has a chance at recovery in America.

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We talk about the dark side of the rehab industry, the ways patients are exploited for profit and who actually has a chance at recovery in America.

A treatment for drug addiction has turned tens of thousands of people into an unpaid shadow workforce.

Medications like Suboxone help pregnant women safely treat addiction. But in many states, taking them can trigger investigations by child welfare agencies that separate mothers from their newborns.

Hospitals gave pregnant patients meds during childbirth, then reported them for positive drug tests.

A man was convicted and deported to Mexico, and at least 26 other people have been arrested under a Florida immigration law that officials were ordered not to enforce.

Hospitals use drug tests that return false positives from poppy seed bagels, decongestants and Zantac. Yet newborns are being taken from parents based on the results.

Some bills followed an investigation by The Marshall Project and Reveal that exposed the harms of widespread drug testing of pregnant patients.

Examining failures of the addiction-treatment industry through real-life stories.

Texas Ranger James Holland became famous for cajoling killers into confessing to their crimes. But did some of his methods — from lying to suspects to having witnesses hypnotized — ensnare innocent…

On Friday, some tenants returned home to find their belongings outside.

Homeland Security records reveal that officials knew that more than half of the 238 deportees were labeled as having no criminal record in the U.S. and had only violated immigration laws.

The 17-person team of statisticians and scientists at the National Survey on Drug Use and Health are all out of jobs. Researchers around the country use the data to understand behavioral health.

Pulitzer finalist Shoshana Walter exposes the country’s failed response to the opioid crisis, and the malfeasance, corruption, and snake oil which ...