More rehab centers should mean fewer overdoses. In one California region, we found the opposite

In Orange County, Calif., an area dense with treatment centers, out-of-state patients overdose in greater numbers than elsewhere in the state. Manuel Sulzer/Connect Images via Getty Images

At 24, Boyd was living in Chicago when he decided to get help. He had been drinking alcohol since a young age, but more recently he’d been drinking far more often – and dangerously.

He found a rehabilitation center online and reached out to the facility in Orange County, an affluent coastal area of Southern California, for treatment.