The Hidden Crisis of Addiction Treatment

Shoshana Walter’s Rehab: An American Scandal opens with the search for a body. But there are no homicide detectives on the scene. In the spring of 2014, family members, local volunteers, and a retired crime-scene investigator set out to find the remains of 21-year-old Donovan Doyle, a former patient at the Above It All Treatment Center in Skyforest, California. Doyle had disappeared eight months earlier and was presumed dead. When he initially went missing, the police did not try to find him. One law-enforcement official told a local newspaper that he was considered a “voluntary missing adult” and thus “did not meet the criteria to send our search and rescue and put them in danger.” No foul play was suspected, and the police closed the case.