THIS STORY WON’T DIE –
Oct. 16, 2025 – Trigger warning! Shoshana Walter’s new book, Rehab: An American Scandal, is going to make you cry and scream. Cry for how people in need are treated with such cruelty in addiction rehab programs, and scream that for-profit sober living homes are so poorly run by untrained or indifferent staff that some residents die.
Each chapter contains revelations that should prompt Congressional investigations.
The book builds on Walter’s years of in-depth reporting for Reveal, the investigative radio show and podcast, which made her a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize. In American Rehab, she exposed how mandated drug treatment forced hundreds of people to work for corporations for no pay! Her riveting exploration of “work-based rehab” programs showed that there is no such thing; it’s slave labor and wage theft.
In Rehab: An American Scandal, Walter describes a world of “desperate and addicted people who had been lured to rehab with the promise of a cure … only to repeatedly falter and fail inside a system that treated them like dollar signs.”
