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Opioid Epidemic Keeps Climbing at California Prisons, and Claiming Lives of Released Prisoners as Well

Loaded on April 1, 2020 by Jayson Hawkins published in Prison Legal News April, 2020, page 54
Filed under: Medication, Medical Neglect/Malpractice. Location: California.

by Jayson Hawkins

With opioid overdoses claiming the lives of over 68,000 Americans annually, detention facilities have reported a corresponding rise in drug-related deaths among those incarcerated or recently released. (See PLN, September 2019, p. 1.) California’s nearly three dozen penal institutions recorded 997 overdoses in 2018, more than ...

 

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