Fix the Florida Shuffle to End Florida’s Opioid Epidemic

The opioid crisis is up 110% and is tearing through America and Palm Beach County is bearing the brunt of it all. In an effort to solve the opioid crisis, Palm Beach County State Attorney Dave Aronberg has launched a website to convince federal policymakers to fix what is known as the Florida Shuffle.

The Florida Shuffle refers to illegal patient brokering and insurance fraud within the drug treatment industry that keeps patients in an unending cycle of opioid dependence. “Although there are many good drug treatment and sober living providers in Florida and elsewhere,” said Aronberg, “the unscrupulous ones encourage relapse over recovery to line their pockets with insurance money and financial kickbacks.”

While the federal government has failed to address the ongoing opioid crisis, fixthefloridashuffle.com is serving as a response and offering insight into how well-intended laws such as the Affordable Care Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act have been misused by unscrupulous individuals within the rehab industry for financial gain to keep addicts in a perpetual cycle of relapse. If nothing is done at the federal level, fraud and abuse in the drug treatment industry will continue and individuals suffering from opioid addition will be exploited until they overdose or die.