Rehab

“In this stunning debut investigation…Pulitzer finalist Walter shines a light on the ‘$53 billion per year’ network of mismanaged treatment centers…a horrific indictment of America’s profit-driven healthcare system.” –Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“Rehab is propulsively plotted, meticulously researched, and told with an authority that is both heartfelt and hard-won. A thorough critique of the so-called treatment industry and a playbook for real recovery.” –Beth Macy, author of Dopesick and Raising Lazarus

“With fierce compassion and meticulous reporting, Shoshana Waltergives dignity and depth to people too often discarded by a system that claims to help them. Rehab exposes a shadowy industry where profit comes before people, and treatment is too often a cover for exploitation. This is a landmark investigation – and a powerful call for change.” –Gabrielle Glaser, Her Best Kept Secret and American Baby

“Rehab is a beautifully woven and deftly reported deep dive into a side of the opioid crisis that has too often skirted public scrutiny. Shoshana Walter’s debut is an intricate and urgent investigation into the systems that are supposed to heal – but often harm – those struggling with opioid addiction, told with a journalist’s rigor and with immense heart.”–Keri Blakinger, author of Corrections in Ink

“Through four vividly reported, heartrending stories, Shoshana Walter diagnoses the failures of America’s reaction to its drug problem – unjust policies, unregulated rehabs and sober houses, and a so-called ‘system’ that makes it almost impossible for people to get better. This is eye-opening, necessary reading for a society in crisis.” –Robert Kolker, author of Hidden Valley Road

Shoshana Walter is a reporter for the Marshall Project covering the criminal justice system. She was a finalist for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize in national reporting, and has won the Knight Award for Public Service, a Sigma Delta Chi Award for investigative reporting, an Edward R. Murrow Award, and the Livingston Award for Young Journalists. She started her work on the treatment system at The Center for Investigative Reporting, where her work appeared in The New York Times Magazine, in newspapers, and on NPR stations across the country. She is based in Oakland, California.