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Mason County considers contract to allow methadone initiation in jail under DOJ settlement
Summary
Sheriff’s office presented a draft contract with Evergreen Treatment Services to begin methadone induction in the jail to meet a Department of Justice settlement requirement; commissioners expressed support but raised cost and logistics questions.
Mason County leaders reviewed a draft contract with Evergreen Treatment Services to bring methadone induction into the county jail, a change the sheriff’s office said is required by a Department of Justice settlement.
The sheriff’s office told the Board of County Commissioners the DOJ settlement requires the county to offer inmates their free choice of three separate medications for opioid use disorder and that methadone “is 1 of them,” a county official said. The proposed contract would let Evergreen initiate and provide methadone dosing inside the jail rather than transporting inmates daily to an external dosing site.
The sheriff’s representative described current practice as transporting…
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