They Fell In Love Helping Drug Users
But Fear Kept Him From Helping Himself
In an NPR story about the parole and probation system's attitudes and policies on opioid addiction, Assistant Research Scholar Richard Hahn highlights the efforts of some probation agencies to provide better treatment for opioid addiction. Hahn is quoted as saying:
There is a lot of pressure on probation and parole agencies not to violate people just on a dirty urine or for an overdose.