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AJC INVESTIGATION

How a dangerous and very rich con artist escaped federal prison

Arthur Lee Cofield, a dangerous gang leader who once stole $11 million while incarcerated, easily escaped from a Georgia prison camp with no fence.

RISKY MEDICINE

Tempted to try a wellness or longevity treatment? Here’s what experts say.

Patients may not know that these treatments are experimental or about the risks they may pose. The latest in AJC's investigation on alternative medicine in Georgia.

INTERACTIVE MAP

One city in a nation of immigrants

Nearly 1 million Atlantans were born outside the U.S. Who are Atlanta's immigrants?

RISKY MEDICINE

Welcome to Georgia, where questionable therapies flourish with little oversight

Hundreds of Georgia wellness clinics promote unproven treatments with little oversight from one of the nation’s weakest medical boards, an AJC investigation found.

RISKY MEDICINE

Tennessee cracked down on a questionable therapy. Georgia gave its doctors a home.

Two doctors ran afoul of the DOJ after moving to Georgia from Tennessee so they could use chelation, a treatment for removing heavy metals, as a cure-all and billed Medicare.

RISKY MEDICINE

Desperate patients seek cures, leave with debt and regret

An AJC investigation found some Georgia alternative medicine clinics marketing unproven treatments and costly supplements to desperate patients.

RISKY MEDICINE

Atlanta clinic promoting unconventional medicine has controversial history

Social media and marketing have built Progressive Medical Center into one of the most prominent alternative medical clinics in Georgia, if not the entire Southeast

AJC INVESTIGATION

Inside America’s carpet capital: an empire and its toxic legacy

How covering the world in carpet came with a cost no one wants to pay.

WATCH ONLINE

Watch the FRONTLINE (PBS) documentary on the investigation

“Contaminated: The Carpet Industry’s Toxic Legacy,” an investigation in partnership with the AJC, AP, AL.com and The Post & Courier

From AL.com: Georgia carpet empire’s forever chemicals polluted Alabama drinking water

Residents in Gadsden, other Alabama communities downstream blame Dalton’s carpet capital for contaminated water.

Read the full investigative report and previous AJC coverage

In 'Forever Stained,' The AJC partnered with four other newsrooms to report on forever chemicals and the carpet industry.

More Investigations

Census data shows Georgia continues to diversify

Have a child in daycare or worked in one? The AJC wants to hear from you.

Truett McConnell faces lawsuit from president it ousted in sex abuse scandal

EDITORIAL

Georgia must stop risky medicine before more patients are harmed

RISKY MEDICINE

Who’s providing alternative medicine in Georgia, and what they can, can’t do

RISKY MEDICINE

Why you will have problems checking out your Georgia doctor

RISKY MEDICINE

Underfunded Georgia medical board does little to stop doctors who cross the line

MARTA train maker stumbled in other cities. Officials say it paid off.

RISKY MEDICINE

Atlanta clinic promoting unconventional medicine has controversial history

RISKY MEDICINE

Desperate patients seek cures, leave with debt and regret