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All Work. No Pay.

At hundreds of rehabs, recovery means work without pay

by Shoshana Walter July 7, 2020June 30, 2021

Despite deadly injuries and multiple investigations into illegal labor practices, work-based rehabs are an American growth industry.

American Rehab Chapter 2: Miracle on the Beach

by Shoshana Walter, Laura Starecheski, Ike Sriskandarajah, Brett Myers, Kevin Sullivan, Jim Briggs, Fernando Arruda, Al Letson, Amy Julia Harris, Katharine Mieszkowski, Najib Aminy, Amy Mostafa, Matt Thompson, Esther Kaplan, Amanda Pike and Claire Mullen July 4, 2020July 1, 2021

Reveal’s American Rehab exposes how a treatment for drug addiction has turned tens of thousands of people into an unpaid shadow workforce.

American Rehab Chapter 1: A Desperate Call

by Shoshana Walter, Laura Starecheski, Ike Sriskandarajah, Brett Myers, Jim Briggs, Fernando Arruda, Katharine Mieszkowski, Amy Julia Harris, Al Letson, Kevin Sullivan, Esther Kaplan, Amanda Pike, Narda Zacchino, Najib Aminy and Amy Mostafa July 4, 2020July 1, 2021

Penny Rawlings is relieved to finally get her brother into rehab at a place called Cenikor. She doesn’t realize that getting him out of treatment is going to be the bigger problem.

Listen to American Rehab, a podcast series from Reveal

by Reveal staff, Shoshana Walter, Laura Starecheski, Ike Sriskandarajah, Brett Myers, Jim Briggs and Fernando Arruda July 4, 2020June 30, 2021

Reveal exposes how a treatment for drug addiction has turned tens of thousands of people into an unpaid, shadow workforce.

All Work. No Pay., American Rehab, Inequality

Coming soon: American Rehab, a new podcast series from Reveal

by Reveal staff June 16, 2020June 30, 2021

Amid the opioid crisis, we uncover a type of rehab that flourishes by turning thousands of people desperate for treatment into an unpaid labor force.