Lax rules make addictions 'treatment' a fertile ground for scammers

Even before William Griffith Wilson co-founded Alcoholics Anonymous in 1938, his physician explained that addiction isn’t a moral failing, it is a medical condition.
Yet, even though most of us know people in recovery, suffering from addictions or someone who has died in the current fentanyl overdose epidemic, addiction remains a largely unspoken illness.
It’s possible that the success of AA — a society that values privacy, where surnames are not used, and where strangers seek