Column: He was a pharmacist addicted to opiates. Now he works with people in recovery
BOISE, Idaho — Jeff Middleton knows firsthand the challenges of being released from jail and trying to find a job — all while trying to stay clean from a drug
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BOISE, Idaho — Jeff Middleton knows firsthand the challenges of being released from jail and trying to find a job — all while trying to stay clean from a drug
The rates to communicate with Idaho inmates are outrageous, and the hardest-hit people are the families who can least afford it.
“We’ve put so much burden on them on the legal side of it, they can’t get integrated back into society like the rest of us are able to do.” | Opinion
“Fentanyl is by far the gnarliest thing I’ve ever come across. To get off that was 20 times harder than it was to get off of anything else.”
“I feel like people that are incarcerated are just in this cycle of coming back and coming back and coming back.”