Brothers’ arrest reveals underbelly of suboxone clinic business
Four years ago, the Tkhilaishvili brothers were running a pizza shop in Taunton. But the entreprenuerial immigrants from the former Soviet republic of Georgia thought they could make even more money, perhaps even billions, in the business of suboxone clinics, the health care centers where some of the state’s most desperate drug addicts seek treatment.
The brothers were convicted in federal court in Boston last month on extortion charges in a case that was marked by death threats and references to Russian organized crime. But industry insiders say it also illustrated the little-known underbelly of the drug addiction treatment business, where laymen with no experience in health care can open a clinic and financially benefit from the state’s opioid epidemic.
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