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North Carolina Rehab Program Sent Clients To Work For No Pay At Adult Care Homes

North Carolina. Is that in America? –

May 25, 2018 – The program Recovery Connections Community operated out of two facilities in Buncombe County and one in Harnett County. It was founded in 2011 by Jennifer Warren, an addictions counselor who was stripped of her license in 2012. When clients arrived at the rehab centers, sometimes at the order of a judge, they found there was in fact no treatment. Instead they were expected to put in 16 hour days working at adult care homes, and they sometimes found themselves dispensing the same drugs they were addicted to. Host Frank Stasio speaks with Reveal investigative journalists Amy Julia Harris and Shoshana Walter.

Full Story @ WUNC.org

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