From the New York Times, I'm Michael Barbaro. This is the Daily.

Today, America's addiction crisis has become a lucrative business and

fortunes have been made in the emerging rehab industry.

But a patient's death has raised big questions about what it means to profit from crisis.

It's Thursday, January 18th.

Tell me about Michael Cartwright.

Michael Cartwright is someone I met earlier this year in Nashville where he grew up and where he lives.

Michael Corquery is a business reporter at the Times.

Michael suffered from addiction from a very early age through college.

You know, I was really struggling, 23 years old, struggling with mental health issues,

subsabuse, and really desperate for help.

There was nothing he wouldn't try alcohol drugs.

21 years ago, it was fortunate enough to get into the program of alcoholics anonymous.

And from that experience, I got into helping others just like myself.

Went back to school, started working in the field.

And he started his own treatment facility in inner city Nashville.

So what does Cartwright set out to do with this treatment facility that he opens?

He first looks to help people in the inner city that are both suffering from addiction and mental illness.

But along the way, he starts to see the potential for something bigger.

There was no big national company or entity on the scale of a Mayo clinic that people could turn to and know that it was a place they could send their loved ones

and get a really good quality of care.

So he set out to create that.

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