SHUFFLE - Subject and mother oF Daniel, Laura Helvey

SHUFFLE unravels a web of public policy and private interest preying on a desperate population for the sake of profit.In the wake of the opioid epidemic, insurance companies were now required to cover addiction and mental health treatment at the same reimbursement rate as other medical conditions, but without any of the regulations, a move that effectively monetized the 40 million Americans struggling with these issues. Shot over the course of three years, Shuffle follows three individuals trapped by the insurance-fueled cycle of treatment fraud spreading across the country. whose future depend not on getting into treatment, but on getting out alive. A journey of discovery and transformation, these personal stories provide the framework for a more public investigation with the help of an FBI informant, an insurance analyst and the former Executive Director of a Philadelphia-based treatment facility shuttered for fraud.

About our Guest - Laura Helvey, mother of Daniel joins us for a gripping conversation on the living nightmare of finding out her son was an addict, then watching her son get caught up in the morass of revolving door rehab treatment, clinics that cared more about testing that effective treatment and then getting the worst news a mother can hear. And how she now an advocate to get politicians and community leaders to join her in the fight to hold this multi-billion dollar industry to account for their systemic corruption.