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State needs more authority to curb abuses at ‘sober houses’

The attorney general’s office is wise to the operators of shady drug testing clinics and their kickbacks to so-called sober houses inhabited by recovering addicts. But the absence of regulation in this area practically assures that abuses will happen time and time again. It’s time for the federal government to give states more regulatory control over these sometimes shady facilities.

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if some of these sober houses are SHADY, what pray tell do you call what inhabits and inhibits beacon hill? ma