It appears that the feds are cracking down on institutions and courts that stop addicts from continuing their prescribed medications after being jailed or placed on probation. Also these agencies face lawsuits if the removal subsequently results in fatal overdoses when abstinence only therapy doesn’t work.
Although medications, especially opioid replacement drugs like methadone and buprenorphine, cause correctional officials headaches in terms of diversion, well run correctional institutions have been providing inmates methadone for decades.
~Stephanie Lear