Court Battle Exposes Ugliest Strategies of Rehab Business - Addiction/Recovery eBulletin

MONEY MONEY MONEY –

Nov. 6, 2025 – “Bro,” the text chain says, “you can make so much fucking money off these junkies. Their (sic) going to use anyway.”

“What do you mean I can make more,” came the reply. “U can market for pablo. (sic) We all get a kickback for each client we bring in. Basically we send them to detox send them to a house where there’s free house weed and benzo maintenance so we can just keep recycling them through. Some of the house managers make a little extra selling hard on the side if you know what Im saying.” Ah, addiction treatment in California!

This little gem is featured in Aetna’s latest federal court filing against Nathan Young, (aka “Pablo”), and his drug treatment empire. Young weaponizes addiction for profit, the insurance giant charges in a $40 million federal lawsuit, asserting that Young’s businesses cycled patients from one entity to another and encouraged relapse so that billing cycles could start anew.

As we’ve documented for years now, rehab can be a deadly business. “In addition to massive financial fraud, there are also widespread reports of deaths and serious patient harm at Defendants’ facilities, and the state of California reportedly closed several of the facilities based on Defendants’ falsification of records, among other things,” Aetna said.

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