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Lawsuit Aims to Compel NM Prisons to Provide Opioid Treatment

January 16, 2023

Disability Rights New Mexico (DRNM) and the American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico filed a lawsuit asking a federal judge to compel the New Mexico Corrections Department (NMCD) to offer medication to prisoners suffering from opioid use disorder. The Albuquerque Journal reported on the lawsuit in December 2022. Currently, inmates addicted to fentanyl or […]

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