The Inpatient Drug Rehab Industry Is Still Failing

Longtime readers of World of Psychology know I don’t have a lot of patience for the ridiculous shady marketing practices of the drug rehab industry, otherwise known as inpatient alcohol treatment centers. While there are many ethical, well-meaning providers in this space, there are dozens of companies who are still scraping bottom. Today I take a look at where American Addiction Centers is and where it’s going, and the new obfuscated marketing efforts of Freedom Healthcare of America. The inpatient drug rehab industry created its own problem. Led by the biggest names in the industry, such as American Addiction Centers, some of the marketing practices these companies engaged in online were always questionable. Just a year after I wrote this expose’ of some of the shady practices of Recovery Brands, as well as those of Dan Callahan (not related to one another), American Addiction Centers actually purchased Recovery Brands in 2015. That also happens to be the year it reached its peak market cap of $1 billion. And the year I wrote about the curious collection of online websites run by American Addiction Centers that failed — at the time — to have any branding or notice of ownership. What kind of ethical company hides their website ownership? Eventually the company got around to branding all of their sites — but with no acknowledgement of running them for years unbranded, directing unsuspecting visitors apparently to the company’s own dru...
Source: World of Psychology - Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Tags: Alcoholism Ethics & Morality General Policy and Advocacy Substance Abuse Treatment AAC addiction campuses American Addiction Centers freedom healthcare Source Type: blogs