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SXSW Doc ‘Shuffle’ Reveals How Rehab Facilties Prey on Addicts for the Sake of Profit
The SXSW documentary 'Shuffle,' directed by Benjamin Flaherty, reveals how rehab facilties prey on addicts for the sake of profit.
Benjamin Flaherty spent three years shooting “ Shuffle,” a documentary that follows three addicts who are trying to stay alive in rehab facilities that are scamming insurance companies. Flaherty, who uses his personal journey of recovery from addiction as a way into the 82-minute doc, unravels a web of public policy and private interest preying on a desperate population for the sake of profit. But under these policies, recovery is only a secondary concern, only a “reasonably expected outcome.” Untreated addiction costs the federal government over a trillion dollars a year across three industries: healthcare, law enforcement, and the court/prison system.
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