Google Regulates Fraudulent Addiction Marketing
After months if not years of industry leaders complaining about the gamesmanship in addiction treatment center marketing, and the findings by a Grand Jury in Palm Beach County, Florida, the nation’s...
View ArticleState AGs Expand Investigation of Opioid Manufacturers, Distributors; Ask...
A bipartisan group of 41 state attorneys general (AGs) are expanding their investigation of the role pharmaceutical manufacturers and distributors have played in the nation’s opioid epidemic. The AGs...
View ArticleWhy It Took Google So Long to End Shady Rehab Center Ads
Google has been in our news circle (and yours) a lot lately regarding its announcement that it was going to scale back AdWord campaigns (for how long, we do not know) for the addiction treatment...
View ArticleNavigating Passages to Recovery: Public Policy and the Law of Marketing...
Following their breakout sessions at the 2017 National Conference on Addiction Disorders in Baltimore, several experts spoke with Tom Valentino, senior editor of Addiction Professional and Behavioral...
View ArticleMassachusetts AG Launches Probe of Addiction Treatment
The Massachusetts attorney general’s office is investigating patient brokering of Massachusetts residents that recruited them to treatment centers in other states, according to people contacted by the...
View ArticleFlorida DCF to (Finally) Revisit Regulations Governing Treatment Providers
It’s been a long time coming, and perhaps it took an act of the Legislature to make it so, but this morning the Florida Department of Children and Families (DCF), the entity charged with licensing,...
View ArticleThe Positive Economic Impact of the Treatment Industry and Recovery Community
The health care industry is the job engine of many parts of the U.S., aided by funding as a result of the Affordable Care Act. Florida, California, Texas, and other states are no different,...
View ArticleWill Addiction Treatment Be Eliminated from Obamacare Requirements?
The federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed a federal rule late Friday aimed at giving states more flexibility in interpreting the Affordable Care Act’s “Essential Health...
View ArticleA Trick, or a Treat, from DCF and the Federal Government in the War on...
Ok, SoberLawNews readers, I am giving you a head’s up that this is going to be a lengthy, ranting post about how the country’s ongoing detrimental reliance on government to solve the opioid epidemic is...
View ArticleRecommitting to the Mission
Dear Friends and Subscribers: First, Happy Holidays to all. This is my favorite time of year, mostly because this is when the new Star Wars movies come out. But it is also a time of reflection,...
View ArticleCongressional Hearing – EXAMINING CONCERNS OF PATIENT BROKERING AND ADDICTION...
Congressional hearing on recovery residences and patient brokering now live. Watch here: Click here to find out more The post Congressional Hearing – EXAMINING CONCERNS OF PATIENT BROKERING AND...
View ArticleSurvey on SUD Disqualifying Offenses from Employment
Dear friends: Please take a brief moment to complete this 3-question survey if you have ever been arrested in the past and have attempted to obtain employment within the Substance Use Disorder...
View ArticleThe War on Drugs Has a Dark Side
Hello all, and Happy New Year! We haven’t posted in a while because, quite frankly, the news about our Treatment and Housing Recovery Business industry is becoming repetitive, as other jurisdictions...
View ArticleIMPORTANT FLORIDA LEGISLATIVE UPDATE – House Bill 1069
We have been monitoring Florida House Bill 1069 since it was first filed 12/21/17.This morning was the first hearing before the House Children, Families & Seniors Subcommittee, led by State Rep....
View ArticleCalifornia Proposes Legislation to Stop Body Brokering, Following the Lead of...
While people have called the treatment industry in Florida the “Wild West,” the real wild “west” has been California, which, unlike Florida, does NOT have any form of law on the books that criminalizes...
View ArticleA Mental Health Tragedy
Dear Clients and Friends: To say that I am still in shock from yesterday’s events is an understatement. While my boys do not attend Marjory Stoneman Douglas HS in Parkland, Florida, it is a school that...
View ArticleWhy Does the Media Continue to Pander with Discrimination?
I read the local Sun-Sentinel newspaper this morning regarding endorsements for Delray Beach local elections and was absolutely floored. What I read was straight-up discrimination, from a media source...
View ArticleLegal Action Center’s Response to President’s “Initiative to Stop Opioid...
Yesterday in New Hampshire, President Trump outlined his administration’s three-pronged plan for addressing the opioid epidemic. While the strategy includes certain components critical to expanding...
View ArticleWhat Does It Mean When We Call Addiction a Brain Disorder?
When the 2016 Florida Legislature allocated funds for the formation of the Palm Beach County Sober Homes Task Force, my first instinct was that the State of Florida was looking at the conundrum we here...
View ArticleReduction of Mental Healthcare Workforce Contrasts with Need
According to ModernHealthcare.com, the U.S. healthcare sector added 22,400 jobs in March, an improvement from February and roughly in line with its average monthly gain over the past year. The largest...
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