{"id":12589,"date":"2024-09-09T09:01:05","date_gmt":"2024-09-09T09:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=12589"},"modified":"2024-09-09T09:23:43","modified_gmt":"2024-09-09T09:23:43","slug":"how-a-rural-maine-county-jail-helped-prisoners-blunt-opioid-cravings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=12589","title":{"rendered":"How a Rural Maine County Jail Helped Prisoners Blunt Opioid Cravings"},"content":{"rendered":"
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At the Somerset County jail<\/a> in rural Maine, prisoners addicted to opioids used to receive a daily pill to keep cravings in check. But as soon as they were released, their access to the medicine ended.<\/p>\n

As their cravings surged, they were re-entering society at high risk for withdrawal, relapse and overdose \u2014 dangers that newly released prisoners confront nationwide<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of these inmates are our neighbors and it\u2019s in our best interest to assimilate them back into the community, but some would end up dying,\u201d said the Somerset County sheriff, Dale P. Lancaster. \u201cFor me, that\u2019s not acceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hoping to change those grim outcomes, Sheriff Lancaster decided to try providing a different \u2014 and far less common \u2014 form of the medication, buprenorphine<\/a>: an extended-release shot that subdues urges for about 28 days.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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According to a recent analysis in the journal Health and Justice<\/a> about his jail\u2019s pilot project, the switch had a remarkable effect. The long-acting injection afforded newly released prisoners a crucial buffer period after they were discharged, with more time to set up continuing addiction treatment and stabilize their lives.<\/p>\n

The jail\u2019s experience is \u201can important step in showing where we as a society can go to cut back on people dying from this disease,\u201d said Dr. Josiah Rich<\/a>, a national expert in addiction and incarceration at Brown University, who was not involved in the project.<\/p>\n

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At the Somerset County jail in rural Maine, prisoners addicted to opioids used to receive a daily pill to keep cravings in check. But as soon as they were released, their access to the medicine ended.As their cravings surged, they were re-entering society at high risk for withdrawal, relapse and overdose \u2014 dangers that newly released prisoners confront nationwide.\u201cA lot of these inmates are our neighbors and it\u2019s in our best interest to assimilate them back into the community, but some would end up dying,\u201d said the Somerset County sheriff, Dale P. Lancaster. \u201cFor me, that\u2019s not acceptable.\u201dHoping to change those grim outcomes, Sheriff Lancaster decided to try providing a different \u2014 and far less common \u2014 form of the medication, buprenorphine: an extended-release shot that subdues urges for about 28 days.According to a recent analysis in the journal Health and Justice about his jail\u2019s pilot project, the switch had a remarkable effect. The long-acting injection afforded newly released prisoners a crucial buffer period after they were discharged, with more time to set up continuing addiction treatment and stabilize their lives.The jail\u2019s experience is \u201can important step in showing where we as a society can go to cut back on people dying from this disease,\u201d said Dr. Josiah Rich, a national expert in addiction and incarceration at Brown University, who was not involved in the project.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12591,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12589"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12592,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12589\/revisions\/12592"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}