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One State Takes a Novel Approach to Opioid Addiction: Access to Treatment for All Inmates

August 18, 2017 by ATForum

“As the country reckons with an unfolding opioid crisis, and officials from both parties talk about improving access to care, jails and prisons remain treatment deserts. Few facilities provide any addiction treatment, and when prisoners are released, they return to the same environments — and the same triggers — that fostered their addiction in the first place.

Here, at its campus of squat brick buildings, the Rhode Island Department of Corrections is trying something different. Over the past year, it has expanded its so-called medication-assisted treatment program, becoming the first state system to offer such a broad range of therapies — including all three drugs approved to treat addiction — to its entire prison population.”

Read more at: https://www.statnews.com/2017/08/03/opioid-treatment-prisons/

Source: StatNews.com – August 3, 2017

See related article Opioid Users are Filling Jails? Why Don’t Jails Treatment Them? available at: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/04/us/heroin-addiction-jails-methadone-suboxone-treatment.html

Filed Under: 2017, News Updates

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