Be Ethical Or Be Regulated

While everyone complains about regulation, many times the purpose of regulation makes perfect sense. I think this is the case with new regulations in Florida focused on addiction treatment providers.

The cause of the new regulations – profiteering on the increase in the number of Americans with addiction to opioids. Recent reports put the increase in diagnoses of opioid addictions among commercially insured individuals at 493% (see Opioid Addiction Diagnosis Increases Nearly 500% Among Commercially Insured Population). But the new wrinkle in the field is the rise of "patient brokering" – when addiction treatment consumers are “traded” to illegitimate treatment programs in . . .