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January 31, 2018 –  California’s troubled addiction treatment industry may face stricter oversight and a raft of new requirements in 2018, as lawmakers try to protect vulnerable patients and reduce blatant fraud … “We’re all at fault for allowing this to grow out of control the way it has,” said Albert Senella, president and CEO of Tarzana Treatment Centers in Los Angeles … After reports of death, sexual assault, drug use and paying-for-patients inside the state’s loosely-regulated treatment centers, the Senate Health Committee on Wednesday called a dozen witnesses to explain the Golden State’s approach to the industry – and map out a plan to to tame the “Wild Wild West.” … The Southern California News Group spent a year probing the addiction industry and found it peppered with financial abuses that bleed untold millions from public and private pockets. Broke addicts are commodities – bought, sold and exploited in an underworld rife with kickbacks, drug use and fraud that bleeds money from insurers’ and private pockets.
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