A Tragic Death Shows How ERs Fail Patients Who Struggle With Addiction

Jim and Suzanne Rybak at their home in Florence, S.C. The Rybaks

ER doctors wanted to hospitalize the young man to help ease his withdrawal from opioid dependence. But he declined because he couldn’t afford it. His mom says no one told him he had financial options.

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