When I offered that I was leaving his office after our third interview depressed—again—he said, “Well, you should be. Rehab is a lie. It’s a multibillion-dollar lie.” An annual $35 billion lie—according to a New York Times exposé of a recovery industry it found to be unevenly regulated, rapacious, and largely abstinence-focused when multiple studies show outpatient MAT is the best way to prevent overdose deaths.
