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| Burlington mayor backs opiate treatment drugs for inmates |
| By vtdigger.org- Morgan True |
| Published: 03/15/2017 |
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BURLINGTON — Mayor Miro Weinberger is throwing his support behind legislation to require that medication-assisted opiate treatment drugs be made available to people who are incarcerated. “This bill represents an important step in the urgent effort to stem the tide of the opioid crisis that is killing hundreds of Vermonters,” Weinberger wrote in a letter to Rep. Alice Emmons, D-Springfield, chair of the House Corrections and Institutions Committee. The bill, H.468, is currently before that panel. Advocates have long raised concerns that people in drug treatment who are sent to prison often lose access to their prescribed medications, leaving them vulnerable to relapse, recidivism and overdose upon release. The Department of Corrections has responded that treatment medications — methadone and buprenorphine — can become currency in prison, leading to abuses. However, a report released in December found that fewer than 2 percent of inmates given extended access to treatment medication through a pilot program broke its rules. Read More. |
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