Overdose deaths dropped 58% among people receiving drugs to reduce the symptoms of withdrawal after the program began in 2020. Hospitalizations were 48% lower than for people waiting to begin treatment.
is “at the highest priority level,” given the impact on prisoner health, community safety upon inmates’ release, and drug trafficking and violence it brings to prisons.includes the once-controversial step of using drugs including buprenorphine, naltrexone and methadone to dampen addicts’ cravings and euphoria and relieve withdrawal symptoms while weening them off opioids.
In 2019, California's prison system had a record-high 51 overdose deaths per 100,000 inmates, more than double the overall death rate for other state prison systems. The death rate in California had been steadily climbing since 2012.and to a preliminary estimate of 20 deaths per 100,000 inmates in 2021, with a final report on last year's deaths not expected until late this year.
J. Clark Kelso, the federal official who oversees inmate health, called the findings “a step in the right direction.” The use of anti-craving drugs is part of an approach that includes what is known as “cognitive behavioral therapy,” in which people talk with mental health counselors to identify and change their own self-destructive behavior.
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