Dream of sobriety turns into a nightmare (homes, cost)

[Voebe]

This is so sad, taking advantage of desperate people.




They Wanted to Get Sober. They Got a Nightmare Instead.
Arizona spent $1 billion on addiction treatment, much of it fraudulent, officials said. Scores of Native Americans who sought help are still struggling with untreated addiction — and some died in rehab.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/11/u...addiction.html

She had tumbled into what prosecutors and tribal leaders call one of the largest, most exploitative frauds in Arizona’s history — a scheme in which hundreds of rehab centers provided shoddy or nonexistent addiction treatment to thousands of vulnerable Native Americans that cost the state as much as $1 billion. Scores of people ended up homeless, still struggling with untreated addiction, officials say. In the grimmest cases, tribal members died of overdoses inside the sober homes where they had sought help.

[john3232]

Originally Posted by Voebe

This is so sad, taking advantage of desperate people.


They Wanted to Get Sober. They Got a Nightmare Instead.
Arizona spent $1 billion on addiction treatment, much of it fraudulent, officials said. Scores of Native Americans who sought help are still struggling with untreated addiction — and some died in rehab.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/11/u...addiction.html

She had tumbled into what prosecutors and tribal leaders call one of the largest, most exploitative frauds in Arizona’s history — a scheme in which hundreds of rehab centers provided shoddy or nonexistent addiction treatment to thousands of vulnerable Native Americans that cost the state as much as $1 billion. Scores of people ended up homeless, still struggling with untreated addiction, officials say. In the grimmest cases, tribal members died of overdoses inside the sober homes where they had sought help.

The recovery industry is big business.
https://www.city-data.com/forum/65636994-post504.html

All said and done only the individual can decide when enough is enough.
https://www.city-data.com/forum/65687759-post642.html

[stephenMM]

Many of them were tribal people in New Mexico who were promised a rose garden, then basically dropped off in Az.

[TimAZ]

Makes the $250M scandal at UA seem small by comparison. Keep this up and AZ might overtake CA as the poster child for waste and fraud.