As a drug treatment consultant, we must keep abreast of the laws that are being passed and make sure we adhere to them. Unfortunately, if we don’t pay attention and we break the law it will cost us not only in dollars but possibly our freedom as well. Our attorneys have summarized the Kickback in... View Article...
Pundits in the addiction treatment field won’t say it, but we will. There is a bloodbath going on in the addiction treatment space especially in the out of network residential treatment centers. The MAT (Medically Assisted Treatment a/la Methadone/Suboxone/Vivitrol) side of the business is growing and growing at a rapid pace and this is where... View Article...
Congress Responds to Reports of Patient Brokering Late last month, the United States Congress sent letters to eight call aggregators regarding their practices as well as reports of addiction treatment patient brokering. In our opinion, this is more than a shot across the bow. The information in each of these letters comes straight for an... View Article...
Addiction-Rep Founder Jim Peake will be attending the 2018 EMP (Ethical Marketing Practices) Addiction Conference to bring his ideas on ethical marketing in the drug rehab industry. Much has changed in the addiction treatment landscape online in the past year since Jim was a speaker and panelist at the 2017 conference. Changes in Google’s algorithm,... View Article...
There have been a number of changes in the addiction treatment industry in the past several years, both from an insurance standpoint – with the inclusion of addiction treatment as an “essential service” – and from a business owner’s perspective. More recently, marketing practices for rehabs and addiction treatment services have seen quite a few... View Article...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recently released its provisional counts for drug overdose deaths in the United States for August 2017. While it is well known that deaths due to drug overdose have increased in the past few years across the country, this latest set of data really puts the immense... View Article...
State Senator Jim Merritt introduced a first-of-its-kind program to tackle opioid addiction in Indiana. The BRIDGE Program, a pilot in the Greenwood City Court, offers opioid addicts on probation the opportunity to participate in a rehabilitation program rather than return to jail. Learn more about The Bridge at Bridge-Rep.com. New Program Blazing a Trail Merritt... View Article...
Addiction-Rep Founder Jim Peake is slated to speak at a major behavioral health care event later this month in Florida. The Addiction and Behavioral Health Executive Thought Leader Panel Series will take over the brand new, state-of-the-art Riviera Beach Marina Event Center on Friday, Oct. 28. Behavioral Health Network Resources (BHNR) is the creator of... View Article...
One of the most difficult parts of quitting opioid addiction, whether it involves codeine, fentanyl, Vicodin or heroin, is the acute pain associated with the process. Many experts believe that both the pain of detox and the fear of that pain are one of the greatest barriers to patient detoxification and rehabilitation. It’s clear that... View Article...
