Massachusetts jail offers $1,000-a-shot drug to fight addiction, recidivism

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Massachusetts jail offers $1,000-a-shot drug to fight addiction, recidivism

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/massachusetts-jail-offers-1-000-shot-drug-fight-211005629.html"><img src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/4DftswCPre1qZY5ZGqULXg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2014-09-03T212524Z_1_LYNXMPEA8212N_RTROPTP_2_USA-HEROIN-PRISONS.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Gail Dufault, the Transitional Healthcare Coordinator at the Barnstable County House of Corrections, checks that a dose of Vivitrol is mixed properly before administering the drug to an inmate at the prison in Buzzards Bay" align="left" title="Gail Dufault, the Transitional Healthcare Coordinator at the Barnstable County House of Corrections, checks that a dose of Vivitrol is mixed properly before administering the drug to an inmate at the prison in Buzzards Bay" border="0" /></a>By Laila Kearney BARNSTABLE, Mass. (Reuters) - When William Luz's father died behind bars last month at 62 of liver failure and other illnesses tied to a lifetime of illegal drug use, his son, a former addict himself, could have dulled the pain with heroin. For that, he credits a pioneering addiction treatment program at the Barnstable County (Massachusetts) Correctional Facility. &quot;Honestly, it (the program) saved my life,&quot; said Luz, 44, on a break from his job as a cook at a bustling seafood restaurant in Sandwich, Massachusetts, not far from where he grew up. Luz, who served two years for a burglary he committed with his father, received an injection of the drug naltrexone before he left Barnstable.</p><br clear="all"/>

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