Federal funding pushes Connecticut legislators to move the needle on drug policy and save lives
Federal funding pushes Connecticut legislators to move the needle on drug policy and save lives Recently we took care of a patient who had experienced over 10 opioid overdoses in the last two years. He had multiple infections related to injection drug use. He was in and out of jail where he did not have access to life-saving medication therapy for opioid use disorder. His story is not uncommon; in fact, a leading cause of death following incarceration is drug overdose. In Connecticut more than half of those who die by overdose have a history of incarceration. Despite our state’s continued r...
Source: ctmirror.org