Shoshana Walter exposes the country's failed response to the opioid crisis, and the malfeasance, corruption, and snake oil which blight the drug rehabilitation industry.
Brings some needed scrutiny to bear ... Notwithstanding some poignant passages, the prose in Rehab doesn’t dazzle; it’s marred by some limp language, strained transitions and a weak epilogue ... Not an especially fresh or practicable prescription ... Walter is at her best when she zeros in on her four subjects and elucidates the specific ways in which the treatment system fails or abuses them. Especially revelatory is her reporting about the major rehab provider Cenikor and one participant’s experience with it ... In a remarkable journalistic feat Rehab manages to delve deeply into the personal lives of the kind of people who are typically leery of speaking to reporters at all, and through their stories, the book shines vital light into dark places
Nuanced and deeply reported ... [These] stories are as compelling as they are hard to read ... The book is well written and strikes a good balance between the personal narratives and the broader racial and political contexts in which they play out.
