“Can my addiction/mental health center pay for referrals?” A question frequently asked these days relates to the practice of paying for referrals. This issue is one of the most misunderstood laws in California. This business practice has the potential for significant adverse consequences. As we see treatment business practices under scrutiny, knowledge is key. By way of background, I am a lawyer, and an addiction treatment professional with over 40 years of experience working in the addiction field. I starting in addiction treatment in 1975 as a counselor at the Alcohol Rehabilitation Unit at the Navy Hospital at Camp…
Author: Leonard Buschel
Articles, Videos & Breaking News | Powered by Writers In Treatment | Share with friends, colleagues, staff and clients January 5, 2016 Treatment Industry & Recovery Community News Vol. 3., No. 21 eBulletin Advertising REEL Recovery Film Festival Subscribe to the eBulletin Testimonials It’s a Family Affair VIDEO Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson’s Son Chet Pens Emotional Message About Sobriety for New Year’s VIDEO Tom Hanks son Chet Hanks is ready to start the New Year fresh. Chet took to Instagram on…
Articles, Videos & Breaking News | Powered by Logan House Media | Share with friends, colleagues, staff and clients December 1, 2015 Treatment Industry & Recovery Community News Vol. 3., No. 16 eBulletin Advertising REEL Recovery Film Festival Subscribe to the eBulletin Testimonials Stick With the Winner VIDEO How Cable News Reporter Laurie Dhue Overcame Alcoholism VIDEO “But yes I was drunk when I met President George W. Bush, and I think that really highlights the extent to which this disease affects people. You…
Articles, Videos & Breaking News | Powered by Logan House Media | Share with friends, colleagues, staff and clients HAPPY THANKSGIVING ISSUE November 24, 2015 Treatment Industry & Recovery Community News Vol. 3., No. 15 eBulletin Advertising REEL Recovery Film Festival Subscribe to the eBulletin Testimonials Beware Delray Beach Relapsed and forced out, sober home residents die in motels When 20-year-old Nicole Cronin relapsed in 2012 at Halfway There, a Delray Beach sober home, employees told her she couldn’t stay and dropped her off at a cheap motel. Eleven hours later, Nicole was dead, face…
Articles, Videos & Breaking News | Powered by Logan House Media | Share with friends, colleagues, staff and clients November 17, 2015 Treatment Industry & Recovery Community News Vol. 3., No. 14 eBulletin Advertising REEL Recovery Film Festival Addiction/Recovery eBulletin Website Testimonials A Different Joy of Cooking Kicking an addiction? Replace it with joy, expert advises in new book “People with the most success in staying sober tend to get involved in a range of pleasurable activities and do them frequently,” said Suzette Glasner-Edwards,…
Articles, Videos & Breaking News | Powered by Logan House Media | Share with friends, colleagues, staff and clients November 10, 2015 Treatment Industry & Recovery Community News Vol. 3., No. 13 eBulletin Advertising REEL Recovery Film Festival Addiction/Recovery eBulletin Website Testimonials Media Matters VIDEO Why Christie’s drug speech went viral: Our addiction to authenticity VIDEO Politicians are all adept at faking sincerity, but this is deeply personal. Christie began by talking about his mother being addicted to cigarettes, trying to kick the habit,…
Articles, Videos & Breaking News | Powered by Logan House Media | Share with friends, colleagues, staff and clients November 3, 2015 Treatment Industry & Recovery Community News Vol. 3., No. 12 eBulletin Advertising REEL Recovery Film Festival Addiction/Recovery eBulletin Website Testimonials Behind The Orange Jail Bars Orange County Doctor and Pill Pusher Convicted of Murder Dr. Hsiu-Ying Tseng, who prosecutors say is the first doctor convicted of murder in the United States for recklessly prescribing drugs to patients, was accused of ignoring “red…
Articles, Videos & Breaking News | Powered by Logan House Media | Share with friends, colleagues, staff and clients October 27, 2015 Treatment Industry & Recovery Community News Vol. 3., No. 11 eBulletin Advertising REEL Recovery Film Festival Addiction/Recovery eBulletin Website Testimonials There’s Green In Yellow Urine lab flaunted piles of gold …he had $2 million in solid gold coins brought out and placed on the sta … the government believes Millennium made its millions by billing Medicare and Medicaid for a whole range…
Articles, Videos & Breaking News | Powered by Logan House Media | Share with friends, colleagues, staff and clients October 20, 2015 Treatment Industry & Recovery Community News Vol. 3., No. 10 eBulletin Advertising REEL Recovery Film Festival Addiction/Recovery eBulletin Website Testimonials By Doing Something How candidates can address drug abuse: USA Today’s Ideas Provide incentives for states to make database checks mandatory for doctors. Addiction and overdose deaths are seldom the stuff of presidential campaigns, but with an estimated two people dying every…
Articles, Videos & Breaking News | Powered by Logan House Media | Share with friends, colleagues, staff and clients October 13, 2015 Treatment Industry & Recovery Community News Vol. 3., No. 9 eBulletin Advertising REEL Recovery Film Festival Addiction/Recovery eBulletin Website Testimonials Another DC Rally Story to Love Anti-Stigma Rally In D.C. Shares Stories Of Loss And Redemption With one in three households and 85 million people nationwide affected to some degree by drug addiction, according to the organization Facing Addiction, the rally also…
Articles, Videos & Breaking News | Powered by Logan House Media | Share with friends, colleagues, staff and clients October 6, 2015 Treatment Industry & Recovery Community News Vol. 3., No. 8 eBulletin Advertising REEL Recovery Film Festival Addiction/Recovery eBulletin Website Testimonials Silence Is Not Golden Touched by addiction, thousands pack the DC mall to say enough is enough The list of speakers at the rally, believed to be the first of its kind, included U.S. Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy; Michael Botticelli, director of…
Articles, Videos & Breaking News | Powered by Logan House Media | Share with friends, colleagues, staff and clients September 29, 2015 Treatment Industry & Recovery Community News Vol. 3., No. 7 eBulletin Advertising REEL Recovery Film Festival Addiction/Recovery eBulletin Website Testimonials EXTRA EXTRA! READ ALL ABOUT IT Sovereign Health of California, Inc. vs. Leonard Buschel CONTINUED @ AddictionRecoveryeBulletin.org Crossing the Line Pee Scams, Kickbacks, And Overdoses Plague South Florida Rehabs In Florida, she fell into a trap familiar to many addicts: a…
Articles, Videos & Breaking News | Powered by Logan House Media | Share with friends, colleagues, staff and clients September 22, 2015 Treatment Industry & Recovery Community News Vol. 3., No. 6 eBulletin Advertising REEL Recovery Film Festival Addiction/Recovery eBulletin Website Testimonials In Bruges not In Bars Colin Farrell shares sobriety stories Jodie McKewan tells the Daily Record, “I said to Colin, ‘I heard you were in recovery’ and he was really open and honest with me. He said, ‘I have been in recovery for…
Articles, Videos & Breaking News | Powered by Logan House Media | Share with friends, colleagues, staff and clients September 15, 2015 Treatment Industry & Recovery Community News Vol. 3., No. 5 eBulletin Advertising REEL Recovery Film Festival Addiction/Recovery eBulletin Website Testimonials Unscheduled Journey Homeopathy conference ends in chaos after delegates get dosed on hallucinogenics An alternative medicine conference has ended in chaos in Germany after dozens of delegates took a LSD-like drug and started suffering from hallucinations. Broadcaster NDR described the 29 men and…
Articles, Videos & Breaking News | Powered by Logan House Media | Share with friends, colleagues, staff and clients September 8, 2015 Treatment Industry & Recovery Community News Vol. 3., No. 4 eBulletin Advertising REEL Recovery Film Festival Addiction/Recovery eBulletin Website Testimonials Dying to Make a Killing Prescription murder trial should set precedent for doctors According to the Drug Enforcement Administration, Tseng wrote more than 27,000 prescriptions over a three-year period — an average of 25 per day. She and her husband operated out…
Articles, Videos & Breaking News | Powered by Logan House Media | Share with friends, colleagues, staff and clients September 1, 2015 Treatment Industry & Recovery Community News Vol. 3., No. 3 eBulletin Advertising REEL Recovery Film Festival Addiction/Recovery eBulletin Website Testimonials Show Me A Hero Wayne W. Dyer, Prolific Author of Self-Help Books, Dies at 75 Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, whose best-selling 1976 book decrying the vice of blame and preaching the virtue of self-reliance, “Your Erroneous Zones,” propelled him to a prolific…
Articles, Videos & Breaking News | Powered by Logan House Media | Share with friends, colleagues, staff and clients August 25, 2015 Treatment Industry & Recovery Community News Vol. 3., No. 2 eBulletin Advertising REEL Recovery Film Festival Addiction/Recovery eBulletin Website Testimonials With A Little Help From My Friends Matthew Perry Talks Sobriety: ‘I’m an Award-Winning Alcoholic’ “I’ve had a lot of ups and downs in my life and a lot of wonderful accolades,” he said, “but the best thing about me is that…
Articles, Videos & Breaking News | Powered by Logan House Publications | Share with friends, colleagues, staff and clients August 18, 2015 Treatment Industry & Recovery Community News Vol. 3., No. 1 eBulletin Advertising REEL Recovery Film Festival Addiction/Recovery eBulletin Website Testimonials Celebrating 3 Years as Editor/Publisher AfterPartyHero: The Man Helping People Heal Through The Arts In addition to the REEL Recovery Film Festival & Symposium, Buschel is also the man behind The Addiction/Recovery eBulletin, a packed missive which posts 30 stories…
Articles, Videos & Breaking News | Powered by Logan House Publications | Share with friends, colleagues, staff and clients August 11, 2015 Treatment Industry & Recovery Community News Vol. 2., No. 51 eBulletin Advertising REEL Recovery Film Festival Addiction/Recovery eBulletin Website Testimonials Come For Treatment, Stay For Probation Palm Beach County addiction business a $1 billion gold rush, FBI investigating Under the radar, local fortunes are being made here, and quickly, from getting addicts and alcoholics clean and sober. With the big money has…
Articles, Videos & Breaking News | Powered by Logan House Publications | Share with friends, colleagues, staff and clients August 4, 2015 Treatment Industry & Recovery Community News Vol. 2., No. 50 eBulletin Advertising REEL Recovery Film Festival Addiction/Recovery eBulletin Website Testimonials Macheté Danny Trejo’s Story Of Addiction And Redemption Will Put A Smile On Your Face VIDEO “Everything good that has happened to me, has happened as a direct result of helping someone else.” It’s easy to get carried away with the heartfelt…
Articles, Videos & Breaking News | Powered by Logan House Publications | Share with friends, colleagues, staff and clients July 28, 2015 Treatment Industry & Recovery Community News Vol. 2., No. 49 Writers In Treatment REEL Recovery Film Festival Addiction/Recovery eBulletin Website Testimonials Unique Brand Of Altruism Russell Brand’s Trew Era Café is Turning Around The Lives of Recovering Addicts “Nutters and revolutionaries especially welcome,” proclaimed Russell Brand on the March morning when he opened the Trew Era Café, his coffee shop on the New…
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Articles, Videos & Breaking News | Powered by Logan House Publications | Share with friends, colleagues, staff and clients July 14, 2015 Treatment Industry & Recovery Community News Vol. 2., No. 47 Writers In Treatment REEL Recovery Film Festival Addiction/Recovery eBulletin Website Testimonials What About the Thousands More? Obama Commutes Sentences for 46 Non-Violent Drug Offenders President Obama announced Monday that he was commuting the sentences of 46 federal drug offenders, more than doubling the number of nonviolent criminals to whom he has granted clemency since taking…
Articles, Videos & Breaking News | Powered by Logan House Publications | Share with friends, colleagues, staff and clients July 7, 2015 Treatment Industry & Recovery Community News Vol. 2., No. 46 Writers In Treatment REEL Recovery Film Festival Addiction/Recovery eBulletin Website Testimonials Pablo Escobar Would Be Jealous The OxyContin Clan: The $14 Billion Newcomer to Forbes List of Richest Clans How did the Sacklers build the 16th-largest fortune in the country? The short answer: making the most popular and controversial opioid of the 21st…
Articles, Videos & Breaking News * Powered by Logan House Publications * Share with friends, colleagues, staff and clients June 30, 2015 Treatment Industry & Recovery Community News Vol. 2., No. 45 Writers In Treatment REEL Recovery Film Festival Addiction/Recovery eBulletin Website Testimonials Portuguese Man of Peace Vermont’s Prison Chief Says It’s Time to Decriminalize Drug Possession Vermont Department of Corrections Commissioner Andy Pallito recalled spotting a young woman on a prison tour; he knew she was addicted to heroin, but she wasn’t getting treated for it ……
Articles, Videos & Breaking News | Powered by Writers In Treatment | A 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization June 23, 2015 Treatment Industry & Recovery Community News Vol. 2., No. 44 Writers In Treatment REEL Recovery Film Festival Addiction/Recovery eBulletin Website Testimonials Suboxone Hits The Front Page The drug Dylann Roof was holding when he was arrested in February? When Dylann Roof, the suspect in the deadly shooting at the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, was arrested last February on trespassing charges at a mall in…
Articles, Videos & Breaking News | Powered by Writers In Treatment | A 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization June 16, 2015 Treatment Industry & Recovery Community News Vol. 2., No. 43 Writers In Treatment REEL Recovery Film Festival Addiction/Recovery eBulletin Website Testimonials Sober Lying House VIDEO FBI raids sober living criminal enterprise in West Palm Bch. VIDEO The Florida Association of Recovery Residences, which is watchdog of sober homes in the state, assisted in the investigation. The association said Good Decisions was gaming the…
Articles, Videos & Breaking News | Powered by Writers In Treatment | A 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization June 9, 2015 Treatment Industry & Recovery Community News Vol. 2., No. 42 Writers In Treatment REEL Recovery Film Festival Addiction/Recovery eBulletin Website Testimonials Say It Loud, Say It Proud Sorry, that AA “study” is bullshit I don’t care who published it. It’s wrong. And it could be the reason someone doesn’t try to get help. I’ll start by saying this: Alcoholics Anonymous is the sole…
Articles, Videos & Breaking News | Powered by Writers In Treatment | A 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization June 2, 2015 Treatment Industry & Recovery Community News Vol. 2., No. 41 Writers In Treatment REEL Recovery Film Festival Addiction/Recovery eBulletin Website Testimonials Ready for our Wide Shot VIDEO Ed Begley Jr. Interviewed for REEL Recovery Film Festival VIDEO St. Elsewhere that’s when I first fell in love with Ed Begley Junior a long acting career and a long record as an environmentalist. Ed’s work for the…
Articles, Videos & Breaking News | Powered by Writers In Treatment | A 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization May 26, 2015 Treatment Industry & Recovery Community News Vol. 2., No. 40 Writers In Treatment REEL Recovery Film Festival Addiction/Recovery eBulletin Website Testimonials FINALLY POLITICS: 2016 Agenda Includes Combating Drug Epidemic Clinton will be back in New Hampshire on Friday for another small-business roundtable at a brewery in Hampton. Aides are anticipating that there, too, Clinton will comment on the state’s drug epidemic. Other candidates…