It’s a point of pride, major selling point and plain old common sense: Have an actual medical doctor assist licensed addiction treatment centers as they care for patients quitting dangerous drugs and alcohol.

This sort of partnership, verboten in California until 2016, offers “the utmost convenience for our guests,” some facilities crow. “These medical professionals can provide real-time medication adjustment, medically assisted detox, medication assisted treatment ….”

But, for the doctors involved, how many is too many? The vast majority of medical professionals approved to provide “incidental medical services” in Orange and Los Angeles counties work with just one or two different facilities, according to data from the California Department of Health Care Services, which licenses and re

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