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SHUFFLE

By Benjamin FLAHERTY

Social issues - Completed 2024

Through the lens of his own recovery, a filmmaker offers a character-driven look inside the billion dollar addiction treatment industry where young people are bought and sold for their insurance policies and ushered into a system designed to keep them sick.

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SXSW 2025

- Year of production
- 2024
- Genres
- Social issues, True Story, Documentary
- Countries
- USA
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Budget
- 0.3 - 0.6 M$
- Duration
- 83 mn
- Director(s)
- Benjamin FLAHERTY
- Producer(s)
- Carra GREENBERG, Benjamin FLAHERTY, Scott PASKOFF, Harris FISHMAN
- Synopsis
- Shot over the course of three years, "Shuffle" follows three individuals whose lives depend not on getting into treatment, but on getting out alive, and in the process, shines a light on the insurance-fueled cycle of addiction treatment fraud spreading across the country. With the filmmaker serving as narrator, using his own experience as a roadmap, 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. "Shuffle" unravels a web of public policy and private interest preying on a desperate population for the sake of profit.

SHUFFLE

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