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Overdoses are on the rise. Is it time to provide medication assisted treatment in NC prisons?

By Hannah Critchfield The agency that runs North Carolina’s prisons has a Flickr account. It’s littered with pictures of contraband confiscated from people incarcerated across its 55 facilities: pounds of tobacco, cell phones, marijuana in a shoe. There are also photos of hundreds of Suboxone strips. Suboxone strips aren’t like other illicit drugs — they’re […]

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