Daily News | Addiction medication in Pennsylvania’s jails is often inadequate or nonexistent, new report finds
, just 5% of addicted people in state prisons receive medication to treat opioid use disorder while incarcerated.
Sixteen jails allowed people who were already taking opioid addiction medications to keep taking them during their incarceration, and just three — in Philadelphia, Montgomery, and Franklin Counties — allowed people to start taking addiction medication from jail. Kevin Rousset, the president of the Pennsylvania County Corrections Association — a professional organization of about 40 of the county jails around the state — says the association has had training and discussions about offering addiction medications in jails. But the association isn’t a governing body and has no overarching rules regarding addiction treatment.
A spokesperson for Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro said that although the office does not oversee county jails, local governments can use funds from the opioid litigation settlement that Shapiro negotiated — some $1.07 billion, divided among local entities around the state — to fund medication programs in jails.The report’s authors also pointed out that some jails that do offer opioid addiction medication may not be offering the most effective types.
“We’ve come a long way in terms of the general public’s understanding of opioid use disorder, but there’s still a lot of stigma and misunderstanding about what these medications actually are and why people need them,” said Sarah Bleiberg Bellos, a legal fellow at PILP who worked on the report. One man incarcerated in a “large urban county jail” said he was accused of taking another person’s buprenorphine while standing in line to receive the medication.
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