MI Collaborates With County Jails To Combat Opioid Crisis

MI Collaborates With County Jails To Combat Opioid Crisis

Introduction

In an effort to decrease opioid overdoses, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services is collaborating with county prisons to provide prescriptions to more people in need throughout the state of Michigan.

According to research, those who are jailed have a greater chance of overdosing or perhaps dying from an overdose after being let out of prison. According to the undersheriff of Eaton County, when prisoners are released from prison, they frequently resume their previous drug usage, which their bodies cannot handle after being isolated for so long. He continued by saying that prisoners were being freed from jails around the nation and then passing away from an opioid overdose right away.

The sheriff said the disease of substance use disorder can be treated while the inmates are in custody through intervention while they are in jail, and return them to the community in a much stronger state.

Using money from the opioid settlement, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services hopes to lower the risk of overdoses by extending programs for opioid use disorder in county prisons throughout the state. Medication, in particular, can save lives by lowering the chance of death when an offender is released. Treatment can assist and can even save lives.

According to a professional therapist, the more skills and resources we can give an offender while they are detained, the better off they will be when they are released. History has shown that substance use problems are highly stigmatized. We want to support that recovery because we know how difficult it is for people to reach that point when they are ready for change and recovery. This voluntary program is quite aggressive and ambitious.

Enabling prisoners to concentrate on their healing and prevent relapse. One of Michigan's top institutions for providing opioid therapy in a correctional environment is the Eaton County Correctional The undersheriff for the county said that thorough discharge planning is done in order to continue aiding prisoners after their release.