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Insurance companies frustrate NJ families seeking treatment

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New Jersey families throughout the state are grappling not only with the horrors of their loved one’s heroin addiction but also with their insurance companies. Many are encouraged to commit insurance fraud by nurses at treatment centers. The families inflate the amount of the drug that is being consumed in order to make the situation appear more severe thus prompting the insurance companies to pay for extended stays.