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Drug Addicts Suffer Preventable Deaths in U.S. Jails
Loaded on Jan. 8, 2018
by Christopher Zoukis
published in Prison Legal News
January, 2018, page 38
Filed under:
Drug/Alcohol Withdrawal,
Jail Specific,
Wrongful Death.
Location:
United States of America.
by Christopher Zoukis
There is a growing epidemic of opioid addiction in the United States. According to the federal Centers for Disease Control, over 33,000 opioid-related deaths occurred in 2015, representing a quadrupling of such fatalities since 1999. It is estimated that three-quarters of crimes are related to …
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