OSSIPEE — While Carroll County commissioners continue to block certain inmates from obtaining medication-assisted treatment for opioid abuse, Jail Superintendent Jason Henry said Monday that Rockingham and state inmates are now being introduced to MAT while local prisoners are not, by commissioners’ orders.
MAT includes administering medications like Suboxone to prisoners.
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