Julia Lurie of Mother Jones on how rehab recruiters are luring addicts into a deadly cycle (3/27/19)
“The offer was too good to resist: Go to rehab for a week, get $1,000 in cash. It was early 2017, and Brianne, a 20-year-old from a woody Atlanta suburb, had come to South Florida to leave her heroin addiction behind,” read the opening lines of Julia Lurie’s feature article in the latest issue of Mother Jones magazine entitled “Hooked: How rehab recruiters are luring recovering opioid addicts into a deadly cycle.” “$1,000 for the first week of her stay and $500 each week thereafter. That money could buy Brianne a whole lot of heroin.” In this installment of “Leonard Lopate at Large” on WBAI Mother Jones reporter Julia Lurie details the major health hazards rehab recruiters are exposing recovering addicts to under the guise of trying to help.