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An extensive list of charges was filed in a California court in July, after a CBS News investigation found two years ago that vulnerable drug addicts were being paid to have experimental surgeries — and insurance companies were being billed thousands of dollars in the process. Jeff Glor spoke to one mother whose life was changed when her son, who was paid $1,000 to get the treatment, overdosed.