Free medication-assisted treatment initiated or continued in prison would make smuggled medication worthless. Furthermore, the inmate who would pay $50 for one 8-milligram buprenorphine-naloxone strip would likely be the same inmate discharged back into the community on no medication and most likely to die within two weeks of an overdose or, if not, most likely to return to prison within one year for another drug-related charge, never having received proper medical care.
Edwin C. Chapman, Mitchellville