Thousands of California prisoners falsely tested positive for opioids last year because of a laboratory mistake. Now hundreds ...

Thousands of other people imprisoned in county jails may soon have access to such ‘medication assisted treatment’ in the next two years. At the direction of Gov. Gavin Newsom, the state’s ...

California Correctional Health Care Services is reviewing hundreds of parole hearings after discovering faulty drug tests may ...

yet fewer than half of U.S. jails offer jail-based MAT or Medication Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD) treatment, creating a critical care gap and a key opportunity to address a nationwide public health ...

At least half of Colorado’s jails were not offering full medication-assisted treatment — the use of medications like methadone plus counseling — before a statutory requirement kicked in on July 1.

Though more than two-thirds of Ohio jails provide medication assisted treatment for opioid use disorder, the investigation found that not everyone incarcerated in Ohio jails received the treatment.

Weber Human Services and the Weber County Sheriff’s Office for a grant-funded medication-assisted treatment, or MAT, program at the jail. Medication-assisted treatment is described as an ...

Shanya, also in North Carolina, withdrew from opioids while pregnant in jail without access to medication-assisted treatment as well. “It was not a good living situation,” Shanya, who is also ...

Office of Justice Programs to build out a Medication-Assisted Treatment pilot program for inmates at the Hamilton County Jail and Detention Center. An initiative announced last fall by County ...

More money is going to medical needs in jails within the Triad ... awarded for the Rockingham County Jail to establish a medication-assisted treatment (MAT) program has been increased by $ ...