American Rehab (Trailer)

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🗓️ 11 March 2020

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

Reveal is launching its first serialized investigation: American Rehab. In the midst of the worst opioid crisis in America’s history, Reveal uncovers a type of rehab that is flourishing by turning tens of thousands of people desperate for treatment into an unpaid workforce. The eight-episode series will run in Reveal’s podcast feed from March 28 to May 2, 2020.

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0:00.0	Opioid addiction has killed hundreds of thousands.
0:06.5	The fear of pain from withdrawal is absolutely overwhelming.
0:12.8	For many, it's either prison...
0:14.3	Look, I had 45 years over my head.
0:16.4	...or a bizarre form of rehab that profits by putting people to work.
0:21.1	I didn't care if they told me to jump through a flaming hula hoop and eat a bucket of shit.
0:25.5	I was gonna eat some shit and jump through some fire.
0:27.8	...for no pain.
0:29.0	To me, it was like free labor, like, slave labor.
0:32.3	It's been called a cult, because it is cult-like.
0:35.7	They had pig masks going on.
0:38.3	Yeah, we brainwashed it, because a brain is dirty.
0:42.0	It started as a way to help people overcome addiction.
0:45.7	I didn't know it was gonna turn into what it did, man.
0:48.1	Going out and beat nump on people, man.
0:49.9	And guns and burattle snakes and mailboxes.
0:53.5	It's been going on for decades.
0:55.7	Rehabilitating lives.
0:57.5	We have found that nothing works as well as work itself.
1:01.2	Unpaid workers trapped in the gears of a rehab machine.
1:05.2	People working like that...
1:07.5	You can't get people better like that.
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