Coronavirus means new rules, old problems for addicts in treatment

Nearly overnight, the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation switched 1,300 patients from traditional face-to-face addiction treatment to an online platform that, just days earlier, was viewed as a pilot project.
Men joining the Beacon House addiction recovery community in San Pedro are quarantined in separate quarters for up to three weeks before they’re allowed to join the regular houses. After that they live in two- to three-man “pods,” remaining as isolated as possible from other p