Shoshana Walter
@sho-walter.bsky.social
Investigative reporter at The Marshall Project. Author of REHAB: An American Scandal, from Simon & Schuster.
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“Rehab” is an eye opening and disturbing look at the American drug treatment industry. @sho-walter.bsky.social brings its impacts to life in her important new book. We had a great convo about money, insurance, punishment and stigma, and what could actually help.
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Podcast Episode · New Books in Drugs, Addiction and Recovery · 11/08/2025 · 41m
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November 12, 2025 at 5:15 PM
“Rehab” is an eye opening and disturbing look at the American drug treatment industry. @sho-walter.bsky.social brings its impacts to life in her important new book. We had a great convo about money, insurance, punishment and stigma, and what could actually help.
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My Friday newsletter for @niemanstoryboard.org: Featuring election week, @joeposnanski.com, @sho-walter.bsky.social, Michael J. Mooney, Vincent Beiser, Julian Brave NoiseCat, and @hrishikesh.co
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Scenes from an election week. Plus: Selling a book proposal and the value of a ‘flop’
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November 7, 2025 at 2:26 PM
My Friday newsletter for @niemanstoryboard.org: Featuring election week, @joeposnanski.com, @sho-walter.bsky.social, Michael J. Mooney, Vincent Beiser, Julian Brave NoiseCat, and @hrishikesh.co
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Thank you for speaking for the voiceless and this courageous level of exposure @sho-walter.bsky.social ❤️ There is so much work to do and speaking the truth is how we get to a future where such human torture doesn’t exist. This is now happening in mental health programs
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October 30, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Thank you for speaking for the voiceless and this courageous level of exposure @sho-walter.bsky.social ❤️ There is so much work to do and speaking the truth is how we get to a future where such human torture doesn’t exist. This is now happening in mental health programs
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Pulitzer finalist Shoshana Walter will be joined by journalist Matt Drange to discuss her book, "Rehab: An American Scandal."
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October 14, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Pulitzer finalist Shoshana Walter will be joined by journalist Matt Drange to discuss her book, "Rehab: An American Scandal."
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“Rehab - An American Scandal”
Great book talk by investigative reporter @sho-walter.bsky.social on the scandalous state of the unregulated drug treatment industry. One contractor built too many homes that weren’t selling so he turned them into treatment centers despite having no experience!
Great book talk by investigative reporter @sho-walter.bsky.social on the scandalous state of the unregulated drug treatment industry. One contractor built too many homes that weren’t selling so he turned them into treatment centers despite having no experience!
[Rehab - An American Scandal]
Investigative Reporter Shoshana Walter examined the for-profit drug rehabilitation treatment industry and argued that it fails to help people suffering from opioid addiction. Book Passage in Corte Mad...
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September 23, 2025 at 5:06 PM
“Rehab - An American Scandal”
Great book talk by investigative reporter @sho-walter.bsky.social on the scandalous state of the unregulated drug treatment industry. One contractor built too many homes that weren’t selling so he turned them into treatment centers despite having no experience!
Great book talk by investigative reporter @sho-walter.bsky.social on the scandalous state of the unregulated drug treatment industry. One contractor built too many homes that weren’t selling so he turned them into treatment centers despite having no experience!
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Tonight at 6 PM on @kalwradio.bsky.social 91.7FM:
Confused about the new #COVID_19 vaccine recs? UCSF's Dr. Monica Ghandi will take your ?s. We’ll also talk with @sho-walter.bsky.social about her new book "Rehab" & learn how SF's Dance Mission Theater is thriving despite challenges. Join us!
Confused about the new #COVID_19 vaccine recs? UCSF's Dr. Monica Ghandi will take your ?s. We’ll also talk with @sho-walter.bsky.social about her new book "Rehab" & learn how SF's Dance Mission Theater is thriving despite challenges. Join us!
September 15, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Tonight at 6 PM on @kalwradio.bsky.social 91.7FM:
Confused about the new #COVID_19 vaccine recs? UCSF's Dr. Monica Ghandi will take your ?s. We’ll also talk with @sho-walter.bsky.social about her new book "Rehab" & learn how SF's Dance Mission Theater is thriving despite challenges. Join us!
Confused about the new #COVID_19 vaccine recs? UCSF's Dr. Monica Ghandi will take your ?s. We’ll also talk with @sho-walter.bsky.social about her new book "Rehab" & learn how SF's Dance Mission Theater is thriving despite challenges. Join us!
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Who actually recovers from drug addiction in America? 💊
Investigative reporter @sho-walter.bsky.social spoke with @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social about the corruption, profiteering and dismal rates of recovery she found in America’s drug treatment system.
👀 Watch the full interview on YouTube now.
Investigative reporter @sho-walter.bsky.social spoke with @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social about the corruption, profiteering and dismal rates of recovery she found in America’s drug treatment system.
👀 Watch the full interview on YouTube now.
Why America's Rehab System Doesn't Work | KQED Forum
Nearly eight years ago, journalist Shoshana Walter followed a lead on a drug and alcohol rehab program that put patients to work at a chicken plant. What she found was one of many programs that…
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September 13, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Who actually recovers from drug addiction in America? 💊
Investigative reporter @sho-walter.bsky.social spoke with @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social about the corruption, profiteering and dismal rates of recovery she found in America’s drug treatment system.
👀 Watch the full interview on YouTube now.
Investigative reporter @sho-walter.bsky.social spoke with @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social about the corruption, profiteering and dismal rates of recovery she found in America’s drug treatment system.
👀 Watch the full interview on YouTube now.
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Had a great conversation with @sho-walter.bsky.social about her eye-opening new book, Rehab: An American Scandal. Highly recommend for anyone who cares about addiction. centerforhealthjournalism.org/our-work/ins...
The Health Divide: Q&A: Why does rehab keep failing those who need it most?
In her new book, journalist Shoshana Walter revelas how many programs exploit patients, bar mothers, underuse buprenorphine, and worsen racial and gender disparities.
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September 12, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Had a great conversation with @sho-walter.bsky.social about her eye-opening new book, Rehab: An American Scandal. Highly recommend for anyone who cares about addiction. centerforhealthjournalism.org/our-work/ins...
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The Large Division winner of the Best Investigative Journalism Award is “She Ate a Poppy Seed Salad Just Before Giving Birth. Then They Took Her Baby Away,” an investigation by @sho-walter.bsky.social of @themarshallproject.org.
September 11, 2025 at 1:38 AM
The Large Division winner of the Best Investigative Journalism Award is “She Ate a Poppy Seed Salad Just Before Giving Birth. Then They Took Her Baby Away,” an investigation by @sho-walter.bsky.social of @themarshallproject.org.
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I got to talk with @sho-walter.bsky.social about her new book Rehab: An American Scandal. I recommend reading the book. It's a clear-eyed and compassionate telling of four case studies that illustrate how our systems of drug treatment work (and often don't work).
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Making Treatment Work: A Conversation with Rehab: An American Scandal author Shoshana Walter
YouTube video by R Street Institute
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September 9, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I got to talk with @sho-walter.bsky.social about her new book Rehab: An American Scandal. I recommend reading the book. It's a clear-eyed and compassionate telling of four case studies that illustrate how our systems of drug treatment work (and often don't work).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tg-P...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tg-P...
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#booksky recommended for #nonfiction #DrugAddiction #OpioidCrisis #rehab #booklovers 📚💙
When Drug Rehabs Prey on the Patients They Claim to Serve: A ‘remarkable’ new book by Shoshana Walter brings needed scrutiny to bear on America’s drug treatment system.
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When Drug Rehabs Prey on the Patients They Claim to Serve: A ‘remarkable’ new book by Shoshana Walter brings needed scrutiny to bear on America’s drug treatment system.
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August 10, 2025 at 9:03 AM
#booksky recommended for #nonfiction #DrugAddiction #OpioidCrisis #rehab #booklovers 📚💙
When Drug Rehabs Prey on the Patients They Claim to Serve: A ‘remarkable’ new book by Shoshana Walter brings needed scrutiny to bear on America’s drug treatment system.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/b...
When Drug Rehabs Prey on the Patients They Claim to Serve: A ‘remarkable’ new book by Shoshana Walter brings needed scrutiny to bear on America’s drug treatment system.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/b...
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Recent books I loved: I Want to Burn This Place Down @maris.bsky.social, Rehab: an American Scandal (Shoshana Walter)
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September 7, 2025 at 4:39 AM
The Big Ones (Amanda Lund, Maria Blasucci) Patreon podcast makes me literally lol twice a month.
Recent books I loved: I Want to Burn This Place Down @maris.bsky.social, Rehab: an American Scandal (Shoshana Walter)
Subscribe to Robyn O’Neil’s Substack u get an original drawing (you will thank me)
Recent books I loved: I Want to Burn This Place Down @maris.bsky.social, Rehab: an American Scandal (Shoshana Walter)
Subscribe to Robyn O’Neil’s Substack u get an original drawing (you will thank me)
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On this week’s “More To The Story,” author and journalist @sho-walter.bsky.social explains how the underregulated drug rehab industry in America is often failing people battling substance abuse.
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Why rehab often fuels relapse instead of recovery
On this week’s “More To The Story,” author and journalist Shoshana Walter explains how the underregulated drug rehab industry in America is often failing people battling substance abuse.
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August 28, 2025 at 10:00 PM
On this week’s “More To The Story,” author and journalist @sho-walter.bsky.social explains how the underregulated drug rehab industry in America is often failing people battling substance abuse.
The latest from our friends @revealnews.org:
The latest from our friends @revealnews.org:
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This week, on @revealnews.org's “More To The Story,” author and journalist @sho-walter.bsky.social explains how the underregulated drug rehab industry in America is often failing people battling substance abuse.
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August 28, 2025 at 12:01 AM
This week, on @revealnews.org's “More To The Story,” author and journalist @sho-walter.bsky.social explains how the underregulated drug rehab industry in America is often failing people battling substance abuse.
🎧 Listen here: tinyurl.com/yc5ude3w
🎧 Listen here: tinyurl.com/yc5ude3w
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"In her new book “Rehab: An American Scandal,” journalist Shoshana Walter delves deeply into the nation’s broken drug treatment industry, ... and offering insight into how difficult it can be to find high-quality treatment for opioid addiction."
"In her new book “Rehab: An American Scandal,” journalist Shoshana Walter delves deeply into the nation’s broken drug treatment industry, ... and offering insight into how difficult it can be to find high-quality treatment for opioid addiction."
Interview: Lifting the Veil on America's Addiction Rehab Industry
In her new book, journalist Shoshana Walter takes aim at the nation's drug treatment system and finds it sorely lacking.
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August 22, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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"In her new book “Rehab: An American Scandal,” journalist Shoshana Walter delves deeply into the nation’s broken drug treatment industry, ... and offering insight into how difficult it can be to find high-quality treatment for opioid addiction."
"In her new book “Rehab: An American Scandal,” journalist Shoshana Walter delves deeply into the nation’s broken drug treatment industry, ... and offering insight into how difficult it can be to find high-quality treatment for opioid addiction."
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I'm sitting down (virtually) next month w/investigative reporter Shoshana Walter to discuss her new book, Rehab: An American Scandal. It's equal parts personal case studies and a critical look at our American systems and regulations (and often lack thereof). Join us!
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Making Treatment Work: A Conversation with Rehab: An American Scandal author Shoshana Walter - R Street Institute
Featuring [Moderator] Jessica Shortall, Safer From Harm Coalition and Strategic Partnerships Lead at R Street Institute Shoshana Walter, Author, Rehab: An American Scandal Overview There’s broad agree...
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August 19, 2025 at 2:51 PM
I'm sitting down (virtually) next month w/investigative reporter Shoshana Walter to discuss her new book, Rehab: An American Scandal. It's equal parts personal case studies and a critical look at our American systems and regulations (and often lack thereof). Join us!
www.rstreet.org/events/makin...
www.rstreet.org/events/makin...
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Today's Book: Rehab: An American Scandal - Shoshana Walter
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Rehab: An American Scandal – Shoshana Walter
Pulitzer finalist Shoshana Walter exposes the country’s failed response to the opioid crisis, and the malfeasance, corruption, and snake oil which blight the drug rehabilitation industry. Our country’s leaders all seem to agree: People who suffer from addiction need treatment. Today, more people have access to treatment than ever before. So why isn’t it working? The answer is that in America—where anyone can get addicted—only certain people get a real chance to recover.
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August 24, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Today's Book: Rehab: An American Scandal - Shoshana Walter
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Thank u @themarshallproject.org & @sho-walter.bsky.social for amplifying that 'treatment' often punishes women for the things it should address: trauma, parenthood, survival. Change isn't kindness, it's justice. To every woman fighting: you deserve more. www.themarshallproject.org/2025/08/14/w...
Drug Overdoses Are Skyrocketing Among Mothers. Why Is Rehab Unavailable?
In her new book, ‘Rehab: An American Scandal,’ Shoshana Walter explores how the giant substance treatment industry keeps failing many people desperate for help.
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August 16, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Thank u @themarshallproject.org & @sho-walter.bsky.social for amplifying that 'treatment' often punishes women for the things it should address: trauma, parenthood, survival. Change isn't kindness, it's justice. To every woman fighting: you deserve more. www.themarshallproject.org/2025/08/14/w...
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Addiction is only part of our national drug-abuse tragedy. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/r... @simonandschuster.bsky.social @sho-walter.bsky.social #rehab #booksky
August 15, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Addiction is only part of our national drug-abuse tragedy. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/r... @simonandschuster.bsky.social @sho-walter.bsky.social #rehab #booksky
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Inside the popular rehab facility where patients were mocked, bullied, and shamed.
Excerpted from Rehab, a new book by @sho-walter.bsky.social.
Excerpted from Rehab, a new book by @sho-walter.bsky.social.
It Claimed to Be One of the Country’s Most Successful Facilities. It Was “Brainwashing” Patients.
Its tactics recall North Korean brainwashing techniques.
slate.com
August 13, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Inside the popular rehab facility where patients were mocked, bullied, and shamed.
Excerpted from Rehab, a new book by @sho-walter.bsky.social.
Excerpted from Rehab, a new book by @sho-walter.bsky.social.
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Happy pub day to @sho-walter.bsky.social, whose talent is basically visible from space. Check out this rave review and BUY IT! www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/b...
When Drug Rehabs Prey on the Patients They Claim to Serve
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August 13, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Happy pub day to @sho-walter.bsky.social, whose talent is basically visible from space. Check out this rave review and BUY IT! www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/b...
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So proud of my colleague @sho-walter.bsky.social on the publication today of her book, REHAB: AN AMERICAN SCANDAL, which the NY Times called "a remarkable journalistic feat." www.kqed.org/forum/201010...
Shoshana Walter’s ‘Rehab’ Finds Corruption, Profiteering and Dismal Rates of Recovery In America’s Drug Treatment System | KQED
We talk about the dark side of the rehab industry, the ways patients are exploited for profit and who actually has a chance at recovery in America.
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August 12, 2025 at 2:47 PM
So proud of my colleague @sho-walter.bsky.social on the publication today of her book, REHAB: AN AMERICAN SCANDAL, which the NY Times called "a remarkable journalistic feat." www.kqed.org/forum/201010...
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Investigative reporter with @themarshallproject.org @sho-walter.bsky.social talked about her new book "Rehab" and the ways people struggling with addiction are exploited for profit with @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social.
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Investigative reporter with @themarshallproject.org @sho-walter.bsky.social talked about her new book "Rehab" and the ways people struggling with addiction are exploited for profit with @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social.
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Shoshana Walter’s ‘Rehab’ Finds Corruption, Profiteering and Dismal Rates of Recovery In America’s Drug Treatment System
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August 12, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Investigative reporter with @themarshallproject.org @sho-walter.bsky.social talked about her new book "Rehab" and the ways people struggling with addiction are exploited for profit with @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social.
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Investigative reporter with @themarshallproject.org @sho-walter.bsky.social talked about her new book "Rehab" and the ways people struggling with addiction are exploited for profit with @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social.
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OUT TOMORROW (AUG. 12th): Rehab: An American Scandal by @sho-walter.bsky.social. #recovery www.amazon.com/Rehab-Americ...
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August 11, 2025 at 7:53 PM
OUT TOMORROW (AUG. 12th): Rehab: An American Scandal by @sho-walter.bsky.social. #recovery www.amazon.com/Rehab-Americ...
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🎙️ON AIR:
We're speaking with @sho-walter.bsky.social, an investigative reporter with @themarshallproject.org, about her new book "Rehab" and the ways people struggling with addiction are exploited for profit.
❓Have you had experience navigating rehab or addiction treatment programs?
📻 Listen:
We're speaking with @sho-walter.bsky.social, an investigative reporter with @themarshallproject.org, about her new book "Rehab" and the ways people struggling with addiction are exploited for profit.
❓Have you had experience navigating rehab or addiction treatment programs?
📻 Listen:
Shoshana Walter’s ‘Rehab’ Finds Corruption, Profiteering and Dismal Rates of Recovery In America’s Drug Treatment System | KQED
We talk about the dark side of the rehab industry, the ways patients are exploited for profit and who actually has a chance at recovery in America.
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August 11, 2025 at 4:00 PM
🎙️ON AIR:
We're speaking with @sho-walter.bsky.social, an investigative reporter with @themarshallproject.org, about her new book "Rehab" and the ways people struggling with addiction are exploited for profit.
❓Have you had experience navigating rehab or addiction treatment programs?
📻 Listen:
We're speaking with @sho-walter.bsky.social, an investigative reporter with @themarshallproject.org, about her new book "Rehab" and the ways people struggling with addiction are exploited for profit.
❓Have you had experience navigating rehab or addiction treatment programs?
📻 Listen: