Ensuring people with opioid use disorder released from prison stay on the recovery path
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More than half the people in jail or prison in the U.S. have been diagnosed with substance use disorder (SUD). By law, inmates in New York State with opioid use disorder must be provided with medication-assisted treatment within 24 hours of intake. So it’s often incarceration that gives many of these people their first real […]