ByCook County Jail inmate opioid addiction treatment programs SMART and THRIVE are trailblazers in Illinois, providing therapy and medication assistanceOpioids are currently the cause of more deaths in Cook County than homicides, with 9,791 deaths in the last six years.
"It's like I was a slave to opioids," said inmate Keith Bolden. "The main thing I've learned since I've been here was patience and humility." "I think as a society we have to start looking at substance use as just like the person next door to you who has diabetes and the person who has hypertension and heart disease," she said. "And once, as a community, we start recognizing that, then we quickly realize these are patients we also have to take care of."
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