Julia Lurie's guest appearances

Julia Lurie

Leonard Lopate at Large on WBAI Radio in New York

The Beyond Addiction Show

Sharon Salzberg

Donald Trump

Alex Gibney

Rick Hanson

Ray Isle

Karen Cooper

Kristin Neff

Marc Lamont Hill

Randy Shaw

Walt Whitman

Caitlin Zaloom

Grace Lee

Sarah Parcak

James Wilson

Orson Welles

OwlTail

When a person needs to get into rehab, the last thing they expect is that they are going to be invited into a rehab scam. However, this happens all the time. Julia Lurie, journalist at Mother Jones, spent 9 months learning about the underbelly of patient brokers and how they bounce patients from rehab to rehab in a large rehab scam.

The Great Rehab Scam - with Julia Lurie

Mother Jones

“The offer was too good to resist: Go to rehab for a week, get $1,000 in cash. It was early 2017, and Brianne, a 20-year-old from a woody Atlanta suburb, had come to South Florida to leave her heroin addiction behind,” read the opening lines of Julia Lurie’s feature article in the latest issue of Mother Jones magazine entitled “Hooked: How rehab recruiters are luring recovering opioid addicts into a deadly cycle.” “$1,000 for the first week of her stay and $500 each week thereafter. That money could buy Brianne a whole lot of heroin.” In this installment of “Leonard Lopate at Large” on WBAI Mother Jones reporter Julia Lurie details the major health hazards rehab recruiters are exposing recovering addicts to under the guise of trying to help.

Julia Lurie of Mother Jones on how rehab recruiters are luring addicts into a deadly cycle (3/27/19)