Despite deadly injuries and multiple investigations into illegal labor practices, work-based rehabs are an American growth industry.
Recovery Connections Community
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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.
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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.
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This cafe serves food bought with rehab participants’ food stamps
There’s a reason Community Cafe’s prices are so low.
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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.”