The article is part of Vox's The Rehab Racket series [1]. "America is facing a harrowing opioid epidemic, one that kills thousands of people each year. But the

The article is part of Vox's The Rehab Racket series [1]. "America is facing a harrowing opioid epidemic, one that kills thousands of people each year. But the rehab system that could help combat the crisis is failing. It is far too expensive for typical families and often provides addiction treatments that aren’t proven or actually have evidence against them." In other words, the system is encouraging a reckless amount of money spent on solutions known to not work while evidence-based interventions exist. We are living in the "leeches and trepanation" era of addiction treatment. [1] https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/8/30/20833549/vox-rehab-racket-addiction-treatment-opioid-epidemic https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/8/30/20833549/v...