Negligence? –

November 16, 2019- The wrongful death lawsuit filed by his parents lays the tragedy at the feet of the rehabs and their workers. It also apportions blame for the nurse who, they feel, rendered services that weren’t medically necessary, and with the oversight of a doctor who never saw him. At Casa Bella, Harrison was prescribed a lethal stew of drugs that depressed his breathing and killed him, according to the suit.

In civil court, though, the remedy is money. Rehabs often settle for secret sums and go back to running their businesses under new names. “They’re not held criminally responsible, so it keeps happening and happening and happening,” said Gail Dunnett, Harrison’s mother, as she stood with two other women whose children died in recovery-related tragedies … Blatant illegal activity inside licensed addiction treatment centers and unregulated sober living homes throughout California is rife, according to parents, court filings and depositions. Recovering addicts with no credentials hand out prescription medications to other recovering addicts. Blank medical orders — signed in advance by physicians — often are filled out by clerks who use their imaginations to justify high-priced urine tests. Illicit drugs make their way into treatment centers that charge hundreds or thousands of dollars a day. Often, as a result of such actions, people die.

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