Rising deaths due to synthetic opioids

Hi Jason. 3 crisis are at hand. Patients are not treated for pain. Doctors are afraid to write prescriptions for opioids because patients at home can misuse, divert, or accidentally overdose on them. Patients move to Heroin/Fentanyl/Tranq/Cocaine/Amphetamines. 85% of 110,000 overdose deaths are from illicit opioids yet enforcement bodies are focused on prescription opioids. Once patients become persons with opioid use disorder, they cannot treatment though we have medications to treat them. Consider that Suboxone reduces opioid overdose by greater than 50% but only 1/3 of OUD clinics and 1.5% of jails use it. Unsuccessful policy is demonstrated in the judiciary system. 85% of jail detainees have an active SUD/OUD. Receiving no treatment for their relapsing chronic medical disease, within 2 weeks there is a 129 times higher chance that they will overdose and die. 75% relapse within three months of release. 75% commit another crime for drugs after release. 50% are reincarcerated within a year. Incredibly 20% use smuggled opioids in jail?but cannot get OUD treatment. ? The policy misstep cost our country $1.5 trillion last year. 1 in 3 Americans know an OUD patient. 1 in 100 Americans are incarcerated.