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USA. Pennsylvania DOC to Pilot Injectable Buprenorphine for Detoxing Prisoners
USA. Pennsylvania DOC to Pilot Injectable Buprenorphine for Detoxing Prisoners
The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections is moving to reduce Suboxone diversion in its prisons by giving inmates suffering from opioid withdrawal an injectable form of the treatment drug buprenorphine. The plan may even make a dent in the state’s annual toll of more than 5,000 overdose deaths. (Filter, USA, 12.10.2018)