“Shattering & Enraging”

An intimate 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.

Director’s Statement

The participants in Shuffle trusted us in their most vulnerable moments with their most intimate truths. The film belongs to them. It is their story. I was the listener, the facilitator, the amplifier. My background as a person in recovery deeply informed my approach. I recognized the coded language of survival and the defensive humor in our subjects’ voices. My goal was to craft a narrative that refused to flatten them into victims or heroes, and instead allowed their contradictions to remain intact. Directing SHUFFLE was an act of witness, accountability, and ultimately love.

#stoptheshuffle

SHUFFLE has partnered with Twin Seas Media to launch an impact campaign aimed at sparking a nationwide dialogue on recovery—building awareness, fostering empathy, and driving change in the addiction treatment field.

What is the Shuffle?

The Shuffle is a process by which clients are cycled through a rinse-and-repeat style of addiction ‘treatment’ for maximum profit. It’s insurance fraud and can generate up to one million dollars a year per person in insurance reimbursements. From the outside, it may look no different than legitimate treatment.

Upcoming Screenings

  • Invitation only

  • Item description

  • Friday September 26th
    5:15pm
    Kentucky Theatre

    Q+A with director to follow

  • September 27th
    El Paso Tx
    Screening/Date time TBD

  • Sunday September 28th 12:30pm
    Galaxy Luxury+ IMAX Theatres - Screen 3 - Outlets at Legends
    1170 Scheels Drive, Sparks, NV 89434

  • Saturday October 4th 3:30pm

    Millibo Art Theater
    Colorado Springs, CO

  • An Evening with Dave Aronberg

    4:30 Book Signing
    Books & Books
    Coral Gables, FL

    6pm Screening of Shuffle
    Coral Gables Art Cinema

  • Friday October 10th 2pm

    The Screening Room
    1313 N Market St
    Wilmington DE


  • October 11th 12:50pm
    Federated Church
    Chagrin Falls, OH

    October 12th 1pm
    CFIS Theater
    Chagrin Falls, OH

  • Friday October 24th 6:40 PM 

    The Laemmle
    Santa Monica

  • Practical Recovery
    Thursday, November 13, 7PM

    Private location in La Jolla, CA,
    limited seating

    Contact 
    Tom.Horvath@practicalrecovery.com to request attendance

    Q+A to follow with Producer Carra Greenberg in attendance

  • SXSW Film & TV Festival
    UCLA Doc Legal Clinic LA
    Berkshires International Film Festival
    Lighthouse International Film Festival
    DC DOX Film Festival
    Flyover Film Festival/Louisville Film Society
    River’s Edge International Film Festival
    Rhode Island International Film Festival
    Vashon Film Festival
    Sidewalk Film Festival
    LaSalle University
    New Mexico Leaders in Recovery
    Dialogues Film Festival