Court-ordered rehab sounds like a win-win on the surface: someone with a substance use problem gets help instead of jail time. But what happens when the person ordered to treatment doesn’t want it? In Scioto County, Ohio—a region overrun with more than 110 rehab houses for just 72,000 residents—the cracks in the system are showing. […]
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