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Drug rehab patients demand back wages after being sent to work for free

Recovery Connections Community in North Carolina is one of many drug rehabs nationwide that put their clients to work in private businesses, and keep their wages.

Sep 28, 2018

All Work. No Pay.

Care homes used untrained rehab workers while collecting millions from Medicaid

Medicaid-funded caregivers in North Carolina must receive 80 hours of training and can’t have criminal convictions for drug trafficking.

Aug 9, 2018

All Work. No Pay.

This cafe serves food bought with rehab participants’ food stamps

There’s a reason Community Cafe’s prices are so low.

Jul 9, 2018

All Work. No Pay.

She said she’d free them from addiction. She turned them into her personal servants

“It’s like slavery,” said one rehab participant, “like we were on the plantation.”

May 21, 2018

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Drug rehab patients demand back wages after being sent to work for free

Care homes used untrained rehab workers while collecting millions from Medicaid

This cafe serves food bought with rehab participants’ food stamps

She said she’d free them from addiction. She turned them into her personal servants

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