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Candidates cite jail-based STAR program and peer support as central to addiction strategy
Summary
Sheriff John Motts described the jail’s STAR (Sobriety Treatment Addiction Recovery) program and its results; Dan John Damel and Gordon Hintz discussed peer support, Narcan access and partnering county human services with jail reentry efforts.
Addiction treatment and recovery policy were a major focus at the forum, with candidates highlighting jail-based treatment programs and county efforts to connect people to services after release.
Sheriff John Motts described the STAR program inside the jail — sobriety treatment with intensive counseling and Vivitrol injections — and reported outcome figures the jail has tracked: an early 46 percent sobriety rate among participants who…
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