When Peter Loeb co-founded Lionrock Recovery in 2010, the business of treating substance use disorders (SUDs) was very different. SUDs were stigmatized as taboo addictions, drug laws were stricter and models like Lion Rock charging clients for telehealth visits had not started. At the same time, there were fewer acute problems around SUDs – the […]
Stephanie Strong founded Boulder Care in 2017 with an ambitious goal: build a profitable substance use disorder (SUD) treatment business that would also accept Medicaid patients, many caught up in the opioid epidemic. Strong’s timing proved auspicious. Over a year later, a new federal law came into effect requiring states to cover federally approved opioid […]
The number of U.S. fatal drug overdoses has more than doubled in the past eight years, with about 110,000 such deaths in 2022, according to the National Institutes of Health. The leading cause of death, by far, is fentanyl, which has gone from prescription pain reliever to a synthetic opioid furtively smuggled into the country, […]
For years, the Lewis & Clark Community Counseling Center in Portland, Oregon, had helped a small group of patients dealing with gambling addiction. “We could offer someone an appointment the same or next business day,” Frankie DiFerdinando, director of Lewis & Clark’s problem gambling service, told Addiction Treatment Business. Then came the gambling apps, which […]
Eric Frieman’s brother is an Army infantry officer deployed twice into combat zones, who lost more of his soldiers to suicide and behavioral health-related challenges than combat. Frieman’s own best friend died from a drug overdose. In these instances, Frieman told Addiction Treatment Business that he saw people “not able to get the help that […]
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