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.
“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.
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.
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Download the Official SHUFFLE Toolkit, which includes the press kit, social graphics, sample copy and resources for promotional use.