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— This week’s episode of “WisBusiness: the Podcast” is with returning guest Ben Camp, CEO and co-founder of Recovery.com.
When Camp previously came on the show in 2020, the business was called RehabPath. But it has since rebranded to reflect its broader focus on the entire recovery journey. The company helps people find addiction and mental health treatment options, offering resources on thousands of treatment centers across the world.
“We’re doing what we set out to do when we started the company in 2017, and have been able to successfully scale the size of our team, the impact that we’re having and reach,” he said, adding the company last year had “over 2 million people on our website looking for treatment, and we were able to connect hundreds of thousands of those with treatment options.”
Also last year, Recovery.com was in the top 200 companies on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing U.S. companies, Camp says. It was the fastest-growing in Madison and the second-fastest in Wisconsin.
People seeking mental health care are more likely to turn to the internet for help rather than friends, family or even medical professionals, according to Camp, who pointed to the stigma associated with seeking this type of treatment.
“On the negative side of it, and kind of why we started the company, is that there’s a lot of websites out there that are trying to take advantage of people in those times of crisis,” he said.
Recovery.com is meant to be a trusted, independent resource for finding legitimate treatment information, giving users better information as they seek help for themselves or their loved ones. The company is continuing to scale up its offerings, and currently has more than 20,000 treatment options listed on the site.
“We list every treatment option for free, and so the website itself is very comprehensive and you as a patient, or potential patient, can look at all the options and compare in an independent way,” he said.
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— Attorney General Josh Kaul today announced he’s joining 15 other state AGs in suing the Trump administration for delaying and cancelling grant funding through the National Institutes of Health.
The Dem AG said the administration’s moves to cancel upcoming meetings for NIH grant application review and “indefinitely” withhold final decisions on previously approved applications are “sabotaging” public health and medical research.
As one example, the state DOJ release points to UW-Madison losing out on four grants for $25 million, affecting research into vaccines and other topics. The university gets more than $400 million per year from the federal agency.
“The administration must return to complying with the law so this work that’s critical to people’s health stops being improperly delayed,” Kaul said in a statement.
The AGs argue in the lawsuit that NIH is failing to meet statutory obligations and violating regulations, and that the administration isn’t authorized to shut down congressionally appropriated funding. It was filed in the U.S. District Court for Massachusetts.
See the release below.
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