FTC Sues Eight Organizations & Four Individuals For Deceptively Routing People Seeking Addiction Treatment 

On June 24, 2025, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) filed a complaint alleging eight organizations and four individuals impersonated addiction treatment clinics in Google search ads to deceptively route consumers trying to call those clinics to the defendant clinics. The FTC alleges that as a result, consumers were deterred from seeking admission at the clinics they were actually trying to contact. The complaint alleges that the defendants violated the FTC Act and the Opioid Addiction Recovery Fraud Prevention Act, as well as the FTC’s Impersonation Rule. The FTC sought a court order to permanently bar the defendants from this . . .