Franklin County Jail lacks medications to ease withdrawal

When an opiate addict is booked into the Franklin County jail, the inmate receives drugs that can help calm the shakes, restlessness and urge to vomit that come with withdrawal. Doctors who work in the jail, though, do not prescribe the powerful medications that work on the receptors in the brain that trigger the high from a heroin hit and thus head off withdrawal. And they aren’t alone. Correctional facilities across the country are wrestling with how to treat addicts as their populations