Treating Opioid Addiction in Jails Improves Treatment Engagement, Reduces Overdose Deaths and Reincarceration

• By: | The National Institutes of Health (NIH)
• September 16th, 2025
• incarceration treatment, jail-based healthcare, medications for opioid use, opioid use disorder, overdose prevention, post-release outcomes, public health crisis
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NIH-funded study demonstrates life-saving potential of providing medications for opioid use disorder in carceral settings.  A study supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) finds that individuals who received medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD) while incarcerated were...