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Rehabilitation Plus Rehab? Jails Treat Inmates With Opioid Addiction Medication

At a time when the U.S. government is trying to deal with a nationwide opioid epidemic, many jails across the country are only now rolling out medicines to help inmates overcome addiction. And most of ... read more

Colorado lawmakers hope to end drug-addiction withdrawal in county jails

The state Office of Behavioral Health spent about $5.2 million this fiscal year to help jails provide drug addiction treatment ... inmates. Medicaid doesn’t cover the cost of medication for incarcerat... read more

Christie Calls War On Drugs Ineffective, Announces Program To Send Some Offenders To Rehab, Not Jail

“While the war on drugs was started with the best of intentions, I think we now have 30-plus years ... provides mandatory treatment for first-time drug offenders. McGreevey oversees a re-entry program ... read more

A substitute for prison drugs policy?

Mike Trace, who currently heads a charity which runs drug rehab programmes in jails, says that ... they want to take control of prison drug treatment". Methadone can be an effective tool in helping he... read more

Death and Neglect at Rikers Island Women’s Jail

She fought for affordable housing, school study centers and drug rehab ... treatment of a broken ankle sustained after an assault by a correction officer. The incident took place in February 2014, whe... read more

Drug Patent For Opioid Use Disorder Granted To Member Of Family That Owns Maker Of OxyContin

(9/8) NH Times Union: Rehabilitation Plus Rehab? Dispensing Drugs To Treat Inmate Addictions Under Scrutiny At a time when the U.S. government is trying to deal with a nationwide opioid epidemic, many ... read more

Dear Palm Beach County: We need to talk about our substance abuse problem.

Relying on Big Pharma that makes MAT ("medication assisted treatment") drugs and the government ... I’m not a lobby or an anti addiction medicine die hard. I am a taxi driver who has been taking dope ... read more

Op-ed: City Needs a Real Plan to Close Rikers, Lest One Failure Replace Another

Rikers Island is notorious for an extreme history of violence, shown in numerous inmate v. inmate fights ... but rather reduce recidivism and prisoner abuse. Having solid support programs in place for ... read more

How Florida Entraps Pain Patients, Forces Them to Snitch, Then Locks Them Up for Decades

Two decades ago, the state enacted strict mandatory-minimum sentences to combat prescription pill abuse. In an effort to shed light on the effect of those laws, Reason pored over the cases of every cu... read more

New Mexico to require officers to carry overdose antidote

the legislation requires federally-certified addiction treatment centers to provide patients with education plus two doses of naloxone and a prescription for the antidote. The state's prisons and jail... read more