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So many of our discussions here in the Bay Area about drug addiction are about getting people into treatment.

But what happens after people actually get there? Shoshana Walters'

enraging new book, Rehab an American scandal, investigates the ways American society refuses to

actually provide addiction treatment at the scale it is needed, mostly because of greed, racism,

and a lack of care about marginalized people.

One reason many people don't get better is that the care they're offered is exploitative

or corrupt or ignores the evidence we have from here and abroad about what works.

She's coming up next right after this news. Welcome to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal.

In the mornings walking from Bart across the mission to the station, I often wonder about the lives of the people I pass doing drugs on Cap Street and the alleyways of the neighborhood.

Sure, they've made bad choices, they impose costs on everybody else in the city, but how can it be

that our region, our state, our country cannot help people? Even after one million Americans have

died of drug overdoses.

The failure is so profound that I think a lot of us have developed some ethical loopholes about people suffering from addiction.

They're lost to us.

No treatment works.

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