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Press Play with Madeleine Brand

Inside California's rehab industry

Detoxing from drugs or alcohol is the most dangerous and most expensive phase of rehab. But a third of all California rehab centers aren’t staffed by doctors.

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By Madeleine Brand • Dec 21, 2017 • 1 min read

Detoxing from drugs or alcohol is the most dangerous and most expensive phase of rehab. But a third of all California rehab centers aren’t staffed by doctors. Many of these so-called “non-medical” facilities are so risky that a lot of other states forbid them. And some California clinics have had multiple people die on their watch. The O.C. Register has been investigating Southern California’s rehab industry.

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