Thank you to @sho-walter.bsky.social for your work investigating these exploitative systems in “Rehab: An American Scandal”. This population deserves treatment and protection, not further stigmatization and profit extraction.

For-profit sober living is wildly under-regulated & I’ve lived the consequences. I paid to be held “accountable” for my disease - but mostly it exploited the fact that I was sick & poor & could be easily exploited for free labor (to “offset” rent) under the guise of recovery. www.shoshanawalter.com

“Rehab” is an eye opening and disturbing look at the American drug treatment industry. @sho-walter.bsky.social brings its impacts to life in her important new book. We had a great convo about money, insurance, punishment and stigma, and what could actually help.

My Friday newsletter for @niemanstoryboard.org: Featuring election week, @joeposnanski.com, @sho-walter.bsky.social, Michael J. Mooney, Vincent Beiser, Julian Brave NoiseCat, and @hrishikesh.co niemanstoryboard.org/2025/11/07/h... #longreads #booksky

Thank you for speaking for the voiceless and this courageous level of exposure @sho-walter.bsky.social ❤️ There is so much work to do and speaking the truth is how we get to a future where such human torture doesn’t exist. This is now happening in mental health programs bookshop.org/p/books/reha...

Pulitzer finalist Shoshana Walter will be joined by journalist Matt Drange to discuss her book, "Rehab: An American Scandal." oaklandlibrary.bibliocommons.com/events/68635...

“Rehab - An American Scandal” Great book talk by investigative reporter @sho-walter.bsky.social on the scandalous state of the unregulated drug treatment industry. One contractor built too many homes that weren’t selling so he turned them into treatment centers despite having no experience!

Tonight at 6 PM on @kalwradio.bsky.social 91.7FM: Confused about the new #COVID_19 vaccine recs? UCSF's Dr. Monica Ghandi will take your ?s. We’ll also talk with @sho-walter.bsky.social about her new book "Rehab" & learn how SF's Dance Mission Theater is thriving despite challenges. Join us!

Who actually recovers from drug addiction in America? 💊 Investigative reporter @sho-walter.bsky.social spoke with @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social about the corruption, profiteering and dismal rates of recovery she found in America’s drug treatment system. 👀 Watch the full interview on YouTube now.

Had a great conversation with @sho-walter.bsky.social about her eye-opening new book, Rehab: An American Scandal. Highly recommend for anyone who cares about addiction. centerforhealthjournalism.org/our-work/ins...

The Large Division winner of the Best Investigative Journalism Award is “She Ate a Poppy Seed Salad Just Before Giving Birth. Then They Took Her Baby Away,” an investigation by @sho-walter.bsky.social of @themarshallproject.org.

I got to talk with @sho-walter.bsky.social about her new book Rehab: An American Scandal. I recommend reading the book. It's a clear-eyed and compassionate telling of four case studies that illustrate how our systems of drug treatment work (and often don't work). www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tg-P...

#booksky recommended for #nonfiction #DrugAddiction #OpioidCrisis #rehab #booklovers 📚💙 When Drug Rehabs Prey on the Patients They Claim to Serve: A ‘remarkable’ new book by Shoshana Walter brings needed scrutiny to bear on America’s drug treatment system. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/b...

The Big Ones (Amanda Lund, Maria Blasucci) Patreon podcast makes me literally lol twice a month. Recent books I loved: I Want to Burn This Place Down @maris.bsky.social, Rehab: an American Scandal (Shoshana Walter) Subscribe to Robyn O’Neil’s Substack u get an original drawing (you will thank me)

On this week’s “More To The Story,” author and journalist @sho-walter.bsky.social explains how the underregulated drug rehab industry in America is often failing people battling substance abuse. The latest from our friends @revealnews.org:

This week, on @revealnews.org's “More To The Story,” author and journalist @sho-walter.bsky.social explains how the underregulated drug rehab industry in America is often failing people battling substance abuse. 🎧 Listen here: tinyurl.com/yc5ude3w

undark.org/2025/08/22/i... "In her new book “Rehab: An American Scandal,” journalist Shoshana Walter delves deeply into the nation’s broken drug treatment industry, ... and offering insight into how difficult it can be to find high-quality treatment for opioid addiction."

I'm sitting down (virtually) next month w/investigative reporter Shoshana Walter to discuss her new book, Rehab: An American Scandal. It's equal parts personal case studies and a critical look at our American systems and regulations (and often lack thereof). Join us! www.rstreet.org/events/makin...

Today's Book: Rehab: An American Scandal - Shoshana Walter @shoeshine ‪@simonschuster @KCLibrary @sho-walter.bsky.social‬ ‪@simonandschuster.bsky.social‬ ‪@kclibrary.bsky.social‬ #bookoftheday

Thank u @themarshallproject.org & @sho-walter.bsky.social for amplifying that 'treatment' often punishes women for the things it should address: trauma, parenthood, survival. Change isn't kindness, it's justice. To every woman fighting: you deserve more. www.themarshallproject.org/2025/08/14/w...

Addiction is only part of our national drug-abuse tragedy. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/r... @simonandschuster.bsky.social @sho-walter.bsky.social #rehab #booksky

Inside the popular rehab facility where patients were mocked, bullied, and shamed. Excerpted from Rehab, a new book by @sho-walter.bsky.social.

Happy pub day to @sho-walter.bsky.social, whose talent is basically visible from space. Check out this rave review and BUY IT! www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/b...

So proud of my colleague @sho-walter.bsky.social on the publication today of her book, REHAB: AN AMERICAN SCANDAL, which the NY Times called "a remarkable journalistic feat." www.kqed.org/forum/201010...

🎧 Listen to the podcast! Investigative reporter with @themarshallproject.org @sho-walter.bsky.social talked about her new book "Rehab" and the ways people struggling with addiction are exploited for profit with @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social. 🔗:

OUT TOMORROW (AUG. 12th): Rehab: An American Scandal by @sho-walter.bsky.social. #recovery www.amazon.com/Rehab-Americ...

🎙️ON AIR: We're speaking with @sho-walter.bsky.social, an investigative reporter with @themarshallproject.org, about her new book "Rehab" and the ways people struggling with addiction are exploited for profit. ❓Have you had experience navigating rehab or addiction treatment programs? 📻 Listen:

MON at 9AM: @sho-walter.bsky.social, an investigative reporter with @themarshallproject.org, joins to talk about her new book "Rehab" and the ways people struggling with addiction are exploited for profit. ❓ Have you or someone you know been through rehab?

For more insight into controversy surrounding Suboxone prescription and use, I highly recommend listening to this podcast from @revealnews.org revealnews.org/podcast/addi...

For years, the opioid epidemic outpaced treatment access. Suboxone could've helped, easing withdrawal, quelling cravings, preventing relapse. Today, even with generics, only 1 in 4 adults get it. Here is how a company's thirst for profits and political red tape kept it out of reach. nyti.ms/45MfcYH

“Writing a book taught me to be less precious about what I’ve written. A lot of shaping what you’re writing and what you’re saying comes from cutting words back until you discover what you’re really trying to say.” @sho-walter.bsky.social niemanstoryboard.org/2025/07/25/o... #booksky

Hospitals gave pregnant patients meds during childbirth, then reported them for positive drug tests. These reports have prompted calls to police, child welfare investigations and even the removal of kids from their parents. ✍️: @sho-walter.bsky.social & 🎥: Chris Vazquez

NEW: A federal judge ordered Florida to stop arresting people on a new state immigration charge. But we discovered that law enforcement did, anyway -- and one man was quickly arrested, convicted and deported, after more than 30 years in the U.S. www.themarshallproject.org/2025/07/15/f...

Read @sho-walter.bsky.social's investigation on pregnant patients reported for positive drug tests:

A growing number of states are considering legislation to set up protections for patients who might be drug tested when they give birth. Three of the bills were introduced following an investigative series by The Marshall Project and Reveal that exposed the harms of drug testing at childbirth.

It is thrilling to see the first review of REHAB, my forthcoming book! Kirkus Reviews calls it "well written" and "compelling." "A nuanced and deeply reported exposé of America’s $53 billion addiction-treatment industry and how it harms all of us." www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

If you're looking to background any LA sheriff's deputies this week to see if they have a history of bad behavior, here is a searchable collection I made of all the disciplinary and use of force (SB 1421/ SB16) records LASD has released so far: journaliststudio.google.com/pinpoint/sea...

Even after … • years of high-profile exonerations • research on why innocent people are convicted • judges and lawmakers’ attempts to fix the problems detectives continued to use techniques that have been found to produce false confessions.

Across the country, new "squatting laws" are being weaponized against tenants. In Atlanta, Bolden Capital Group is using this law to force out families who paid rent—after leaving them in units with no power, collapsing ceilings, and rampant mold. Landlords are terrorizing people with impunity.

We obtained lists of alleged gang members used by Venezuelan law enforcement and Interpol. Those lists include some 1,400 names. None of the names of the 238 Venezuelan deportees matched those on the lists. W/ @texastribune.org‬ @cazadoresdefakenews.info & Alianza Rebelde Investiga

I've been lucky enough to hear about this book from the earliest days of @sho-walter.bsky.social's always thorough and brilliant reporting. This is an urgent and important work of journalism by one of the most compassionate and caring journalists working today.

The 17-person team of statisticians and scientists at the National Survey on Drug Use and Health are all out of jobs. Researchers around the country use the data to understand behavioral health.

Big news from me: My book is coming out August 12! REHAB is the untold story of our country’s failed response to the opioid crisis – a uniquely American system of treatment that too often fuels relapse and overdose, instead of recovery. Pre-order it here: www.simonandschuster.com/books/Rehab/...

1/ The day after the Antioch High shooting, Nashville police arrested a 12-year-old for posting a concerning screenshot on Instagram. His school was supposed to figure out if it was a valid threat. Instead, the school expelled him with no further investigation.

George Floyd’s murder sparked massive protests for racial justice. There were calls for police reforms, reparations and closing the racial wealth gap. But 5 years later, 🤔 . . . Listen to @washingtonpost.com's Post Reports special episode from 2020 on “The Life of George Floyd.”

Just dropped: my conversation w/ @akibasolomon.bsky.social from @themarshallproject.org. We discuss why language matters when journalists write and talk about incarceration. Akiba says it best: Clarity conveys fairness. Take a listen. Thanks to ‪@markarms.bsky.social‬ for the opportunity.

Data collection is often the first step toward addressing serious societal problems. But under Trump, officials have cut funds for tracking bad cops, shootings and violent extremism — and canceled crime prevention grants.

Federal cuts to public housing mean a potential increase in homelessness — by tens of thousands of people, disproportionately Black. capitalbnews.org/section-8-ho...

Hospitals gave pregnant patients meds during childbirth, then reported them for positive drug tests. These reports have prompted calls to police, child welfare investigations and even the removal of kids from their parents. ✍️: @sho-walter.bsky.social & 🎥: Chris Vazquez

Thanks so much to @kjzz.org for having me on to talk about the growing movement of doctors pushing hospitals to end automatic drug testing and reporting of pregnant patients and newborns. Please listen and share: www.kjzz.org/the-show/202...