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Heroin-Addicted Jail Inmates To Receive Vivitrol Treatments
By wwnytv.com
Published: 04/26/2016

Heroin addicts leaving the Jefferson County jail will have a new treatment available starting this summer.

Sheriff Colleen O'Neill and Credo Community Center Executive Director Jim Scordo talked about the program, which will offer the drug Vivitrol to heroin-addicted former inmates.

O'Neill and Scordo were on 7 News This Morning to talk about the program. Watch the video for their full interview.

It's a once-a-month injection that stops cravings and blocks the body's opioid receptors, so even if an addict tries to get high, they don't feel it.

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