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The former sober living residence, now a private home, where Gary Benefield, an addict, died after checking in for treatment with A Better Tomorrow. B...

Chris Drose works from home in Atlanta. As a college student, Drose became fascinated with American Addiction Centers, one of the biggest addiction-tr...

The bridge where Gregory Thomas killed himself, near A Better Tomorrow office he visited beforehand, in Temecula, Calif. Thomas had been brought to th...

Charles Hill, who ran a treatment center in Temecula, Calif. Hill believes the inpatient model for treating clients, like the one used by American Add...

The A Better Tomorrow office that Gregory Thomas went to before he killed himself at a nearby bridge in Temecula, Calif. In a lawsuit filed against t...

The office of Dr. Michael Ligotti in Delray, Fla. Ligotti was listed as the medical director for nine different drug treatment centers, according to s...

The Alexandria Innovation Center, a urinalysis lab, in Jupiter, Fla. With drug abuse rising, an array of companies have found new ways to turn the pro...

In an undated photo, a urine test sample container. Companies that set up urine testing labs have breathlessly pitched how lucrative the business can...

Photos of Sean Reyna, an alcoholic who killed himself with a shaving razor in one of American Addiction Centers' treatment houses. Reyna's widow said...

Rich Sarafian was one of the last people to see J.J. Baker alive before he died of a heroin overdose after being kicked out of his sober living home,...

The phone Alan Goodwin, a psychologist, used to make many of his calls while looking into the rehab industry's customer acquisition tricks, in New Yor...

Andrew Burki, the chief executive of Life of Purpose Treatment, a group of drug clinics focused on students, in Boca Raton, Fla. Burki has said that a...

John Lehman, of the Florida Association of Recovery Residences, in West Palm Beach, Fla. Lehman said that early experiments with drug test billing yie...

Lizz DeWolfe, the mother of J.J. Baker, who died of a heroin overdose after being kicked out of his sober living home, visits his grave in Forkston, P...

Daniel Sullivan, a former sober-home manager who said he watched as clinic owners quickly became wealthy, in Prescott, Ariz., August 2017. The drug cr...

Mo Michael, a former gambling addict who said she opened a clinic because she saw a need for higher standards, in Prescott, Ariz., August 2017. The dr...

Julie Gorman, the owner of Wild Iris Coffee House, who had to hire a bouncer for her shop to discourage loitering, in Prescott, Ariz., August 2017. Th...

Erin Burk's notes from her months-long investigation into sober living homes in Prescott, Ariz., August 2017. The drug crisis has turned countless rec...

The historic district in Prescott, Ariz., August 2017. The drug crisis has turned countless recovered addicts into businesspeople: They get clean, ope...

Two of the ubiquitous white vans associated with sober living homes in Prescott, Ariz., August 2017. The drug crisis has turned countless recovered ad...

Downtown in Prescott, Ariz., August 2017. The drug crisis has turned countless recovered addicts into businesspeople: They get clean, open their own c...

One of the ubiquitous white vans associated with sober living homes in Prescott, Ariz., August 2017. The drug crisis has turned countless recovered ad...

Erin Burk, who identified dozens of sober living homes in her city, in Prescott, Ariz., August 2017. The drug crisis has turned countless recovered ad...

Erin Burk, who identified dozens of sober living homes in her city, in Prescott, Ariz., August 2017. The drug crisis has turned countless recovered ad...

Alan Goodwin, a psychologist, in New York, Aug. 25, 2017. Startled by the hard sell addicts face, Goodwin began a campaign to map the underbelly of th...

Alan Goodwin, a psychologist, in New York, Aug. 25, 2017. Startled by the hard sell addicts face, Goodwin began a campaign to map the underbelly of th...