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Drug users who only need treatment should get it, not arrest and incarceration
Author(s) -
Knopf Alison
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
alcoholism and drug abuse weekly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1556-7591
pISSN - 1042-1394
DOI - 10.1002/adaw.32539
Subject(s) - buprenorphine , methadone , drug treatment , psychiatry , criminology , opioid use disorder , political science , medicine , opioid , psychology , receptor
Many changes at the local, state and federal levels have resulted in getting treatment to at least some people with opioid use disorder (OUD) in prisons and jails — treatment that just a few years ago would have been unthinkable in those very institutions. Lawsuits over inmate deaths have been followed by establishment of methadone and buprenorphine treatment in some locations, while others have been moving toward treatment as a matter of public policy, Paul Samuels, director and president of the Legal Action Center, told the attendees of the American Association for the Treatment of Opioid Dependence (AATOD) conference in Orlando, Florida, last month. He was joined by a jail accreditor, a sheriff and a judge at the plenary on corrections.