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California Battles Fentanyl With a New Tactic: Treating Habit in Jail
[ad_1] In blistering 100-degree warmth one latest afternoon at Valley State Jail in California’s Central Valley, inmates crowded round small home windows in a jail yard to choose up their each day doses of buprenorphine, an opioid dependancy treatment. At one window, Quennie Uy, a nurse, scanned inmate identification playing cards, then retrieved strips of