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When North Carolina was besieged by Covid-19, Louise Vincent nearly died but it wasn’t the virus that got almost her. She spent months shuffling in and out of clinics, struggling to get appropriate medical treatment, and eventually was poisoned when she attempted to medicate herself in desperation. The medicine she needed was methadone, which is used to help people manage opioid use disorder. She should have been able to access it easily; Vincent helps run the North Carolina Urban Survivors Union, a drug users’ advocacy and harm reduction group.
New initiative seeks to provide potentially life-saving training and empower individuals to administer naloxone, which can be used to prevent opioid overdoses in emergencies
Many San Franciscans in jail struggle with addiction. Would this polarizing treatment option help them?
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Daisy Gonzalez reads a book to daughter Mireyah Pelayo, 6, at Cameo House, a long-term transitional and alternative sentencing program in San Francisco.Marlena Sloss/Special to The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
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A drawing made by Daisy Gonzalez when she was incarcerated, depicting being reunited with her daughter, Mireyah Pelayo, 6, hangs on her wall at Cameo House, a long-term transitional and alternative sentencing program for homeless, formerly incarcerated women and children, in San Francisco.Marlena Sloss/Special to The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
When Damion Davis got out of prison last summer after three decades in and out of the criminal justice system and struggling with addiction, a judge told him all he had to do was finish 90 days of drug treatment to get off probation.