Chris Koon didn’t read the fine print. Sitting in the Cenikor Baton Rouge rehab center’s intake office in 2015, flanked by his mom and grandmother, he signed where told.

“A lot of it read like legalese,” writes Shoshana Walter in “ Rehab: An American Scandal ” (Simon & Schuster, Aug. 12). “Incomprehensible but also innocuous, like something you might see before downloading an app on your phone.” Koon felt lucky. He wasn’t going to prison.

Just days earlier, he’d been arrested for meth possession. The alternative to five years in state prison? A brutal two-year Cenikor inpatient program. Koon took the deal.

In signing the intake documents, he agreed to “receive no monetary compensation” for work he did, with wages going “directly back to the Foundation.” 3

He signed away his righ

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