The $35 Billion Addiction Treatment Industry & taxpayers footing the bill
https://www.forbes.com/sites/danmunro/2015/04/27/inside-the-35-billion-addiction-treatment-industry/#e1492e517dc9
Standard Addiction Treatment Costs
The cost of standard inpatient addiction treatment is around $30,000 per month. Outpatient is around $500 per session.
Huge profits for rehab drugs, rehab facilities, Pain Specialists, Pain Clinics, drug testing, etc. profit driven epidemic that they want to cash in on before the scams become public. We're talking Billions in profit over $35 Billion just in rehab drugs and rehab facilities.
Profit Driven Scam!
A $17,850 urine test: Industry boom amid opioid epidemic
charged $4,675 to check her urine for a slew of different types of opioids: $2,975 for benzodiazepines, a class of drugs for treating anxiety, and $1,700 more for amphetamines. Tests to detect cocaine, marijuana and phencyclidine, an illegal hallucinogenic drug also known as PCP or angel dust, added $1,275 more.
The lab also billed $850 to test for buprenorphine, a drug used to treat opioid addiction, and tacked on an $850 fee for two tests to verify that nobody had tampered with her urine specimen.
Total bill: $17,850 for lab tests that her insurer, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas, refused to cover, apparently because the lab was not in her insurance network.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/19/health/opioid-drug-test-bill-partner/index.html?fbclid=IwAR0Cv6E1H6kzZaA9Jbtxykv617Zu07TB5tvtjqjL3OMf6-E5Fm1j7mSFYRA