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    For Opioid-Addicted Inmates, More Jails Rely On Vivitrol

    Untreated inmates are 12 times more likely to overdose in the first two weeks after they are released. But one drug may offer a solution.
    Mar 30, 2017 2 minutes
    Germaine Jackson is an inmate at Barnstable County Correctional Facility in Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts. A recovering alcoholic, he was one of thousands to fall victim to the national opioid epidemic. (Dean Russell/Here & Now)

    Sixty-five percent of the U.S. prison population is addicted to drugs or alcohol, but only 11 percent receive treatment, according to a study by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse.

    Germaine Jackson is one of those inmates. A recovering alcoholic, he was one of thousands to fall victim to the national opioid epidemic.

    “It got to the point where I

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