How is the country supposed to address a surge in drug use when addicted prisoners receive microscopic support?Heroin and opiate use are on the rise nationally on a trajectory that’s alarming state and federal governments – the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced in December that deaths from drug overdoses are at an all-time tall,with 61% from those two causes. But this is nothing new in our correctional system, where heroin and opiate addictions occupy long been pervasive and untreated problems. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com