2025-01-16
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My name is Elaine O'Connor, and I'm the director of Addiction medicine at Somerset County Jail in Maine.
For about three years, I've been running a pilot program at the jail to combat the opioid epidemic which has really ravaged rural communities, especially in places like Maine.
As an addiction medicine specialist, it's just so clear to me that jails are an underutilized opportunity for addiction treatment in America.
So this is Somerset County Jail and the sheriff's department.
Everybody drives big trucks.
This is rural Maine.
Maine has one of the highest rates of opioid use disorder in the nation.
And people who are incarcerated have an even higher rate because oftentimes the two go in tandem.
We're headed into the Somerset County Jail, Madison, Maine.
So this is the entrance.
This is for weapons clearing only.
In other words, don't put your trash or your cigarettes in there because that's where the guns get emptied.