<i>Times</i> article attacking Acadia stirs anger over damaging slurs

On December 7, The New York Times published a story purporting to investigate Acadia Healthcare's opioid treatment programs (OTPs). The article was not written by reporters familiar with the field, but by reporters whose beat is exposing medical harms. The December 7 article was based mainly on accusations of ex‐employees – not lawsuits, not insurance problems, not anything documented. The OTP chain, which is based in Nashville, was described as, to take the story paragraph by paragraph.