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Nordic chain cracks America and looks to the world

A Nordic addiction clinic chain has cracked America, licensing its methodology to two North American groups and is now looking at international expansion in Far East Asia and the Middle East, including taking equity in partners. It claims that its outpatient approach achieves better results than inpatient rehab at a tenth of the cost and puts the size of the US addiction treatment market at $35bn.

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