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>There's a problem, though: we're restricted by regulations from letting people know that this treatment is available. Both Facebook and Google require a third-party certification before allowing us to use their platforms, and many sites like Reddit don't allow any advertising for addiction treatment at all.

Those limitations were added as a response to real abusive and harmful practices [0]. Just changing the advertising rules hasn't solved the problem, now almost any drug related search has had the results SEOed into complete uselessness by rehab companies. The answers they give to basic questions (what doses are harmful, is it safe to mix these substances) are usually misleading and sometimes explicitly false in order to maximize their conversion rates.

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/7/16257412/rehabs-near-me-go...



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