The Shocking Truth About The $35 Billion Rehab Industry

Love Over Addiction

Michelle Anderson

Society & Culture, Wifeofanalcoholic, Codependency, Relationships, Recovery, Alanon

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2018

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Greg Horvath resides in Los Angeles, CA, and is a nationally respected motivational speaker, author and producer. For 15 years he's traveled the globe sharing his story of perseverance and overcoming adversity. He views the world through the lens that anyone can build a life they are proud to lead.

Because of Greg's incredible story of overcoming adversity to play college football at age 38, (click here for more info) and his passion to share it, he has become a much sought after motivational speaker. His love of film, which he discovered while studying Communication Arts at Saddleback College, has made him an award winning filmmaker.

The Business of Recovery is the third feature film Greg has produced. Unfinished Business was considered for a Canadian Gemini Award and Hope for the Broken Contender won the American Express People’s Choice Award at the Calgary International Film Festival.

Greg is very passionate about The Business of Recovery, a story he felt compelled to tell.

Michelle sat down for a controversial and enlightening interview with the producer of The Business of Recovery, Greg Horvath.

Greg struggled with alcohol as a young man, but he overcame his addiction and decided to give back by working in the addiction treatment industry for over 10 years.

During this time, he discovered the outdated and questionable treatment recovering addicts were receiving.

He's made it his mission to shed light on this $35 billion industry and invoke change for the way addiction is treated by speaking out and making a thought-provoking documentary that was just featured on HBO last Sunday.

We encourage you to listen (without judgment) to what Greg has to say. We understand this might ruffle some feathers but we think Greg's message is an important one to hear.

Transcript

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0:00.0	You're listening to the wife of an alcoholic podcast. Hey, it's Michelle Anderson, and I am so excited to introduce you to someone who I think you need to know. His name is Greg
0:26.8	Horvith and he lives in Los Angeles, California. Greg is a motivational speaker and an award-winning filmmaker. He is passionate
0:38.0	about two of my favorite topics, perseverance, and overcoming adversity.
0:44.7	Greg has won an American Express People's Choice Award
0:48.7	at the Calgary International Film Festival,
0:51.7	and he was considered for a Canadian Gemini Award.
0:55.0	So how did I come across finding Greg?
0:59.0	Well, you know that I love to research and I love documentaries. So I found Greg's documentary about a month
1:11.0	ago it's called the Business of Recovery and I was riveted.
1:20.0	I watch a lot of documentaries, not all of them I think are done well. This one is done beautifully.
1:27.0	I'm not going to, I'll let Greg go into detail about what it's about, but in general it's about the rehab facility and the
1:38.9	need for regulation.
1:41.0	Now I'm going to warn you this podcast is probably our most controversial one that we've
1:49.2	done but as you know I do not shy away from controversial topics, particularly when I believe that they are a message of truth and that they are a point of discussion and that they
2:08.4	shed light on a topic that a lot of other people are not talking about.
2:14.0	So when I see somebody in the community that is being courageous and brave enough
2:20.0	to say the things that we're all worried or wondering about,
2:24.3	or maybe that's not even on our radar,
2:28.2	that could possibly have some consequences
2:31.3	for the people that are sharing them. Think of the Me Too movement, right?
2:37.2	I want to have them on our podcast. And I want you to listen to Greg with an open mind and an open heart and then decide for yourself.
2:45.3	Get educated about this topic and make up your own mind.
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